1939 Boston College Eagles football team

The 1939 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 1939 college football season.[1] The Eagles were led by first-year head coach Frank Leahy and played their home games at Alumni Field in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and Fenway Park in Boston. The team finished the regular season with a 9–1 record, and the Eagles were ranked in the final AP Poll for the first time in school history, at 11th. They were invited to the school's first bowl game, the 1940 Cotton Bowl, where they were defeated by Clemson.

1939 Boston College Eagles football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 11
Record9–2
Head coach
CaptainErnie Schwotzer
Home stadiumAlumni Field, Fenway Park
1939 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Cornell   –  8 –0 –0
No. 10 Duquesne   –  8 –0 –1
Swarthmore   –  6 –0 –1
Scranton   –  7 –0 –2
Princeton   –  7 –1 –0
La Salle   –  6 –1 –1
Penn State   –  5 –1 –2
No. 11 Boston College   –  9 –2 –0
No. 17 Fordham   –  6 –2 –0
Villanova   –  6 –2 –0
Boston University   –  5 –3 –0
Brown   –  5 –3 –1
Dartmouth   –  5 –3 –1
Hofstra   –  4 –3 –0
NYU   –  5 –4 –0
Pittsburgh   –  5 –4 –0
Harvard   –  4 –4 –0
Manhattan   –  4 –4 –0
Penn   –  4 –4 –0
Syracuse   –  3 –3 –2
Vermont   –  3 –3 –2
Tufts   –  3 –4 –1
Yale   –  3 –4 –1
Army   –  3 –4 –2
Bucknell   –  3 –5 –0
Carnegie Tech   –  3 –5 –0
Providence   –  3 –5 –0
Columbia   –  2 –4 –2
Massachusetts State   –  2 –5 –2
Colgate   –  2 –5 –1
Temple   –  2 –7 –0
CCNY   –  1 –7 –0
Buffalo   –  0 –7 –0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30Lebanon Valley
W 45–016,000
October 6at Saint Joseph's
  • Alumni Field
  • Chestnut Hill, MA
W 20–622,685
October 12Florida
L 0–718,000
October 212:30 p.m.Temple
  • Fenway Park
  • Boston, MA
W 19–013,300[2]
October 28Saint Anselm
  • Alumni Field
  • Chestnut Hill, MA
W 28–0
November 4Auburn
  • Fenway Park
  • Boston, MA
W 13–714,000
November 11at Detroit
W 20–1310,342[3]
November 18Boston University
W 19–013,000
November 25Kansas State
  • Fenway Park
  • Boston, MA
W 38–711,000
December 2No. 10 Holy Cross
W 14–040,000[4]
January 1, 1940vs. No. 12 ClemsonNo. 11
L 3–620,000

References
  1. "1939 Boston College Eagles Stats".
  2. "College Football Lineups Today". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 21, 1939. p. 6. Retrieved June 7, 2023 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  3. W. W. Edgar (November 12, 1939). "Eagles' Passes Beat U. of D., 20-13". Detroit Free Press – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Boston C. Upsets Holy Cross, 14-0, On Power Passes". New York Daily News. December 3, 1939. p. 101 – via Newspapers.com.


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