1939 Boston College Eagles football team

American college football season

1939 Boston College Eagles football
Cotton Bowl Classic, L 3–6 vs. Clemson
Conference	Independent
Ranking
AP	No. 11
Record	9–2
Head coach	Frank Leahy (1st season)
Captain	Ernie Schwotzer
Home stadium	Alumni Field, Fenway Park
Seasons← 1938 1940 →

1939 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		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

The 1939 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 1939 college football season. 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.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance
September 30		Lebanon Valley		Alumni Field Chestnut Hill, MA	W 45–0	16,000
October 6		at Saint Joseph's		Alumni Field Chestnut Hill, MA	W 20–6	22,685
October 12		Florida		Fenway Park Boston, MA	L 0–7	18,000
October 21	2:30 p.m.	Temple		Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 19–0	13,300
October 28		Saint Anselm		Alumni Field Chestnut Hill, MA	W 28–0
November 4		Auburn		Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 13–7	14,000–15,000
November 11		at Detroit		University of Detroit Stadium Detroit, MI	W 20–13	10,342
November 18		Boston University		Fenway Park Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 19–0	13,000
November 25		Kansas State		Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 38–7	11,000
December 2		No. 10 Holy Cross		Fenway Park Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 14–0	40,000
January 1, 1940		vs. No. 12 Clemson	No. 11	Cotton Bowl Dallas, TX (Cotton Bowl, rivalry)	L 3–6	15,000
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

References

"1939 Boston College Eagles Stats".
"College Football Lineups Today". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 21, 1939. p. 6. Retrieved June 7, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
"Auburn bows in last five minutes of play". The Huntsville Times. November 5, 1939. Retrieved September 30, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
W. W. Edgar (November 12, 1939). "Eagles' Passes Beat U. of D., 20-13". Detroit Free Press – via Newspapers.com.
"Boston C. Upsets Holy Cross, 14-0, On Power Passes". New York Daily News. December 3, 1939. p. 101 – via Newspapers.com.
"Last minute goal line stand gives Clemson team 6–3 win over Boston". The Austin American. January 2, 1940. Retrieved December 20, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

v t e Boston College Eagles football
Venues	South End Grounds (1893–1899, 1902) American League Baseball Grounds (1901) Alumni Field (1915–1921, 1923, 1932–1941, 1943–1945, 1955) Fenway Park (1914–1917, 1919–1920, 1927–1931, 1936–1945, 1953–1956) Braves Field (1918–1927, 1944, 1946–1952) Alumni Stadium (1957–present) Sullivan Stadium (alternate)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Boston University (Green Line Rivalry) Clemson (O'Rourke–McFadden Trophy) Holy Cross Notre Dame: Holy War UMass Virginia Tech Sacred Cod Trophy
Culture & lore	Baldwin the Eagle "For Boston" Marching band Scanlan Award Hail Flutie The Iron Major
People	Head coaches Starting quarterbacks NFL draftees Statistical leaders
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