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The Eagle nickname and mascot for Boston College's teams were given by Rev. Edward McLaughlin. Fr. McLaughlin, incensed at a Boston newspaper cartoon depicting the champion BC track team as a cat licking clean a plate of its rivals, penned a passionate letter to the student newspaper, The Heights, in the newspaper's first year in 1920.
Baldwin the Eagle, an anthropomorphized bald eagle, is the mascot of the Boston College Eagles. The nickname "Eagles" goes back to 1920 when Rev. Edward McLaughlin, unhappy at seeing a newspaper cartoon which represented Boston College as a cat after a track victory, wrote to the college newspaper The Heights : [ 1 ]
Boston College and Villanova have a dormant rivalry. The two Catholic universities met 46 times, and played a home-and-home series from 1945 to 1980 (save 1954), until Villanova disbanded their 1-A program. They last met in 2013 with Villanova as an FCS opponent for the Eagles, with Boston College taking the 24–14 victory at Chestnut Hill.
The 2025 Boston College Eagles football team will represent Boston College as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Eagles are led by Bill O'Brien in his second season as their head coach.
A senior-laden Boston College team enjoyed a winning 2006–2007 season but did not match the success of the year before. Jared Dudley led the Eagles to 4th in the ACC and a return to the ACC semifinal before losing to North Carolina. Boston College received a No. 7 seed in the NCAA tournament and defeated Texas Tech in the first round. The ...
Boston College claims one national championship in 1940, though the NCAA doesn't recognize it, and have played in 22 Bowl Games, winning 13. With 626 wins over 120 seasons of football, Boston College ranks 51st all-time in win–loss records in the NCAA.
Boston College was founded through the efforts of the first Jesuit community in New England, which was established at St. Mary's Church in Boston in 1849. [16] Jesuit priest John McElroy maintained the vision for what became BC, recognizing the need for an educational institution for the Irish Catholic immigrant population. [17]
The following is a list of Boston College Eagles men's basketball head coaches. The Eagles have had 17 head coaches in their 89-season history. [1] Boston College's current head coach is Earl Grant. He was hired in March 2021, [2] replacing Scott Spinelli, who served as interim head coach after the Eagles fired Jim Christian a month earlier. [3]