1950 Boston College Eagles football team

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1950 Boston College Eagles football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–9–1
Head coach
CaptainPhil Cohen [1]
Home stadium Braves Field
Seasons
←  1949
1951  →
1950 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Franklin & Marshall  – 9 –0 –0
No. 6 Princeton  – 9 –0 –0
St. Lawrence  – 8 –0 –0
Thiel  – 7 –0 –0
No. 2 Army  – 8 –1 –0
Fordham  – 8 –1 –0
Carnegie Tech  – 7 –1 –0
Drexel  – 6 –1 –0
Cornell  – 7 –2 –0
Bucknell  – 6 –3 –0
Penn  – 6 –3 –0
Yale  – 6 –3 –0
Buffalo  – 5 –3 –0
Colgate  – 5 –3 –0
Penn State  – 5 –3 –1
Syracuse  – 5 –5 –0
Temple  – 4 –4 –1
Tufts  – 4 –4 –1
Columbia  – 4 –5 –0
Villanova  – 4 –5 –0
Holy Cross  – 4 –5 –1
Dartmouth  – 3 –5 –1
Boston University  – 3 –5 –0
Duquesne  – 2 –6 –1
Hofstra  – 2 –6 –0
NYU  – 1 –5 –1
CCNY  – 1 –7 –0
Harvard  – 1 –7 –0
Brown  – 1 –8 –0
Pittsburgh  – 1 –8 –0
Boston College  – 0 –9 –1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1950 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College as an independent during the 1950 college football season. The Eagles were led by seventh-year head coach Denny Myers and played their home games at Braves Field in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston College finished winless for the first time since 1902 with a record of 0–9–1. The tie came against Wake Forest. Myers announced his resignation as head coach prior to the season finale against rival Holy Cross. [2] He compiled a record of 35–27–4 while at Boston College.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22 Wake Forest
T 7–712,324 [3]
September 30at No. 6 Oklahoma
L 0–2833,000 [4]
October 7at Ole Miss
L 0–5415,000 [5]
October 13 Fordham
  • Braves Field
  • Boston, MA
L 6–2610,884 [6]
October 20 Georgetown
  • Braves Field
  • Boston, MA
L 10–2014,538
October 27 Georgia
  • Braves Field
  • Boston, MA
L 7–199,243 [7]
November 4 Penn State
  • Braves Field
  • Boston, MA
L 13–208,503
November 11No. 13 Clemson
L 14–359,606 [8]
November 18 Villanova
  • Braves Field
  • Boston, MA
L 7–296,281
December 2 Holy Cross
L 14–3225,035 [9]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

[10] [1]

References

  1. 1 2 2016 Boston College football media guide. p. 180.
  2. ↑ "Myers Quits Boston College". The Washington Post. November 22, 1950. p. 16.
  3. ↑ Jerry Nason. "B.C. Eleven Ties Wake Forest, 7-7, Before 12,324". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Oklahoma again humiliates Eagles, 28–0". The Boston Globe. October 1, 1950. Retrieved September 27, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Ole Miss beats Boston College". The Tampa Tribune. October 8, 1950. Retrieved February 11, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Roberts, Ernie (October 14, 1950). "Boston College Trounced, 26-6, by Fordham". The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Georgia passes bomb BC, 19–7". The Atlanta Constitution. October 28, 1950. Retrieved February 11, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Clemson's last-half burst smothers Bostonians". The State. November 12, 1950. Retrieved December 27, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ Nason, Jerry (December 3, 1950). "Holy Cross Rally Beats B.C., 32-14". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "1950 Boston College Eagles Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
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