1914 Boston College Eagles football team

Last updated
1914 Boston College Eagles football
ConferenceIndependent
1914 record5–4
Head coach Stephen Mahoney (1st season)
Seasons
  1913
1915  
1914 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Army     900
Harvard     702
Wash. & Jeff.     1010
Dartmouth     810
Pittsburgh     810
Cornell     820
Yale     720
Princeton     521
Brown     522
Geneva     530
Penn State     531
Rutgers     531
Syracuse     532
Boston College     540
Villanova     431
Carlisle     5101

The 1914 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 1914 college football season.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 3at Maine L 6–27
October 10at Rhode Island W 21–0
October 17at Bowdoin L 0–20
October 24at New Hampshire W 20–3
October 31 Norwich W 28–6
November 7 Saint Anselm
W 27–0
November 14at Holy Cross L 0–10
November 21at Fordham L 3–14
November 26 Catholic University
  • Fenway Park
  • Boston, MA
W 14–0

Related Research Articles

Lud Wray American football player, coach, team owner

James R. Ludlow "Lud" Wray was a professional American football player, coach, and co-founder, with college teammate Bert Bell, of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He was the first coach of the Boston Braves and of the Eagles. He also served as head coach at his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

Ralph Glaze American football player and coach, baseball player and coach, basketball coach, track coach

Daniel Ralph Glaze was an American athlete and coach who played as a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, and later became a football and baseball coach and administrator at several colleges.

Moody Sarno American football player and coach

Amerino J. "Moody" Sarno was an American football player and coach. An All-American at Fordham University, he played on the same offensive line as future Pro Football Hall of Famer Vince Lombardi. On March 30, 1941, he was hired as Boston College's line coach. He became the Eagles head coach in 1943 after head coach Denny Myers joined the United States Navy. Sarno himself was the only member of the Boston College coaching staff not to join the United States Armed Forces. In three seasons as head coach at Boston College, he had an 11–7–1 record, including an unbeaten 1943 season. He later served as head coach at his former school, Everett High School in Everett, Massachusetts, from 1955 to 1982. In 28 seasons at Everett, he finished with a 128–116–11 record and won four state championships.

Leslie Mann (athlete) American baseball player, scout, and manager; American football and basketball player and coach

Leslie Mann was an American college football player, professional baseball player; and football and basketball coach. He played outfield in the Major Leagues from 1913 to 1928. He played for the Boston Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, New York Giants, and Chicago Cubs. He was the head basketball coach at Rice Institute Indiana University and Springfield College. He compiled a career record of 43–30 in five seasons as a head basketball coach.

Huntington Hardwick American football player

Huntington Reed "Tack" Hardwick was an American football player. He played at the halfback and end positions for Harvard University and was selected as a unanimous first-team All-American in 1914. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.

Stan Pennock American football player, chemist

Stanley Bagg "Bags" Pennock was an American football player. He was selected as a first-team All-American at the guard position three consecutive years while leading Harvard University to three undefeated seasons from 1912 to 1914. He was killed in 1916 in an explosion at a chemical plant in New Jersey. He was posthumously elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.

George William Smith was an American football center in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, the Brooklyn Tigers, and the Boston Yanks. Smith also played in the All-America Football Conference for the San Francisco 49ers. He played college football at the University of California.

Thomas A. McCann American football coach

Thomas A. McCann was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Bowdoin College from 1913 to 1914 and at the University of Maine in 1917, compiling a career college football record of 6–13–2. Before coaching at Bowdoin, McCann coached football at Bangor High School in Bangor, Maine.

Arthur H. White was an American football player, coach, physician, and hospital administrator. He served as the sixth head football coach at Boston College, coaching one season in 1902 and compiling a record of 0–8. White graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1902. He was assistant superintendent of Boston City Hospital from 1907 until his death in 1929. He also headed the Boston Sanatorium at Mattapan from 1914 until his death.

William Patrick "Hiker" Joy was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Boston College from 1912 to 1913 and at Canisius College from 1933 to 1938, compiling a career college football record of 32–24–5.

Stephen Mahoney American football player and coach

Stephen H. Mahoney was an American football player and coach and a longtime municipal recreation official.

Charles Brickley American football player and coach

Charles Edward Brickley was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Johns Hopkins University in 1915, at Boston College from 1916 to 1917, and at Fordham University in 1920 with Joseph DuMoe as co-coach, compiling a career college football record of 22–9. Brickley also coached the New York Brickley Giants of the American Professional Football Association—now the National Football League—in 1921, tallying a mark of 0–2.

Charles William Mayser was an American football, baseball, and wrestling coach. He served three stints as the head football coach at Franklin & Marshall College and was the head football coach at Iowa State University from 1915 to 1919, compiling a career college football record of 46–32–5. Mayser was the head wrestling coach at Iowa State from 1916 to 1923 and at Franklin & Marshall from 1924 to 1946. He was also the head baseball coach at Iowa State for two seasons, from 1919 to 1920, tallying a mark of 18–8–1.

The 1914 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1914 college football season. The only selectors for the 1914 season who have been recognized as "official" by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) are Walter Camp, whose selections were published in Collier's Weekly, and the International News Service (INS), a newswire founded by William Randolph Hearst.

Frederick Bradlee American football player

Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. was an American football player. He was a first-team All-American while attending Harvard University in 1914. He was the father of American journalist Ben Bradlee.

Cleo A. ODonnell American football player and coach, college athletics administrator

Cleo Albert O'Donnell was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Holy Cross from 1904 to 1907. He was a football coach at Everett High School (1909–1915), Purdue University (1916–1917), Holy Cross (1919–1930) and Saint Anselm College (1935–1940). His 1914 Everett team has been ranked as the greatest high school football team of all time, finishing with a 13–0 record and outscoring opponents 600 to 0. In 11 years as the head coach at Holy Cross, his teams compiled a record of 69–27–6. O'Donnell has been inducted into the Holy Cross and Saint Anselm Halls of Fame.

William Joseph Randall was an American college football player and coach. He served as head coach at Dartmouth in 1910 and amassed a 5–2 record.

Haskell Indian Nations Fighting Indians football Football team of the Haskell Indian Nations University

The Haskell Fighting Indians football team represented the Haskell Institute, later known as Haskell Indian Nations University, in college football. They fielded their first football team in 1895.

Britain Patterson, sometimes spelled Brit Patterson and Britton Patterson, was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania and later coached college football at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now North Carolina State University (1916), Waynesburg University (1924), and Manhattan College (1927).

The 1914 Colby Mules football team represented Colby College during the 1914 college football season. The team has been described as the greatest in Colby history as well as one of the strongest college teams ever in the state of Maine. Colby defeated its three in-state rivals Bowdoin College, the University of Maine, and Bates College by a combined score 123 to 0 to win the series title and gained national recognition for its game against the star–studded Navy Midshipmen. The team was led by first year head coach Myron E. Fuller and captained by senior Paul "Ginger" Fraser.

References