Boston College football
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| First season | 1893 | ||
| Head coach |
Steve Addazio 5th season, 27–31 (.466) |
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| Stadium |
Alumni Stadium (Capacity: 44,500) |
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| Field surface | FieldTurf | ||
| Location | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts | ||
| Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference | ||
| Division | Atlantic | ||
| Past conferences | Big East | ||
| All-time record | 632–453–36 (.580) | ||
| Bowl record | 14–11 (.560) | ||
| Claimed nat'l titles | 1 (1940) | ||
| Conference titles | 1 (2004 Big East) | ||
| Division titles | 3 (2005, 2007, 2008 ACC Atlantic) | ||
| Rivalries |
Clemson Tigers (rivalry) UMass Minutemen (rivalry) Notre Dame Fighting Irish (rivalry) Syracuse Orange (rivalry) Virginia Tech Hokies (rivalry) |
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| Heisman winners | 1 (Doug Flutie) | ||
| Consensus All-Americans | 12 | ||
| Colors | Maroon and Gold |
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| Fight song | For Boston | ||
| Mascot | Baldwin the Eagle | ||
| Marching band | "Screaming Eagles" Marching Band | ||
| Website | BCeagles.com | ||
The Boston College Eagles football team represents Boston College in the sport of American football. The Eagles compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Begun in 1892, Boston College's football team was one of six "Major College" football programs in New England as designated by NCAA classifications, starting in 1938. By 1981, and for the remainder of the twentieth century, BC was New England's sole Division I-A program. It has amassed a 624–444–37 record and is 99–54 since the turn of the 21st century.
Steve Addazio is currently the team's head coach. Boston College is one of only two Catholic universities that field a team in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the other being Notre Dame. The Eagles' home games are played at Alumni Stadium on the Boston College campus in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. In addition to success on the gridiron, Boston College football teams are consistently ranked among the nation's best for academic achievement and graduation. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, the football team's Academic Progress Rate was the highest of any school that finished the season ranked in the AP or ESPN/USA Today Coaches' polls.
In 1892, Boston College President Edward Ignatius Devitt, S.J., grudgingly agreed to the requests of two undergraduates, Joseph F. O'Connell of the class of 1893 and Joseph Drum of the class of 1894, to start a varsity football team. Drum would become the first head coach, albeit an unpaid position and O'Connell was captain. On October 26, 1893, BC played its first official game against the St. John's Literary Institute of Cambridge followed by its first intercollegiate game against MIT. BC won the first game 4–0, but lost 6–0 to MIT. Some of the original team's alumni had particularly significant careers: captain Joseph Drum became the first BC graduate to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, Joseph F. O'Connell was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and running back James Carlin became president of the College of the Holy Cross.
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