1909 Boston College Eagles football team

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1909 Boston College Eagles football
ConferenceIndependent
1909 record3–4–1
Head coach Thomas H. Maguire [1] (1st season)
Seasons
  1908
1910  
1909 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale     1000
Lafayette     701
Penn State     502
Harvard     910
Wash. & Jeff.     811
Penn     712
Dartmouth     512
Princeton     621
Pittsburgh     621
Carlisle     831
Brown     731
Geneva     420
Carnegie Tech     531
Lehigh     432
Army     320
Villanova     320
Syracuse     451
Boston College     341
Cornell     341
Rutgers     351
Drexel     122

The 1909 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 1909 college football season.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 9St. AlphonsusMassachusetts Avenue GroundsL 0–6
October 13at Phillips Academy Andover, MA L 0–10
October 16at Rhode Island Kingston, RI L 0–9
October 20 [2] College of Osteopathy
W 35–0
October 23at New Hampshire Durham, NH L 6–11
October 30 Saint Anselm Massachusetts Avenue GroundsT 6–6
November 13at Connecticut
W 17–0
November 26at Saint Anselm
W 7–0

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References

  1. "Dr. Maguire Chosen". The Boston Daily Globe. September 28, 1909.
  2. "B. C. 35, College of Osteopathy 0". The Boston Daily Globe. October 21, 1909.