1942_Boston_College_Eagles_football_team

1942 Boston College Eagles football
1942 Boston College Eagles football
Eastern champion
Orange Bowl, L 21–37 vs. Alabama
Conference	Independent
Ranking
AP	No. 8
Record	8–2
Head coach	Denny Myers (2nd season);
Captains	Mike Holovak; Fred Naumetz;
Home stadium	Fenway Park
	Seasons ← 1941 1943 →

1942 Boston College Eagles football team

American college football season

The 1942 Boston College Eagles football team was an American football team that represented Boston College as an independent during the 1942 college football season. In their second year under head coach Denny Myers, the Eagles compiled an 8–1 record in the regular season, were ranked No. 8 in the final AP poll, and went on to lose to Alabama in the 1943 Orange Bowl.^[1] The Eagles captured the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy (emblematic of the 'Eastern championship').

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Boston College won its first eight games of the season, climbing to No. 1 in the AP Poll, but lost to rival Holy Cross in the final game of the regular season. The result, however, was a stunning rout loss, 12–55. The Eagles team canceled their planned post-game celebration at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, which inadvertently saved the team from perishing along with 492 others in the Cocoanut Grove fire that occurred that night.^[2]

Team co-captain and fullback Mike Holovak was a consensus pick on the 1942 All-America team and finished fourth in Heisman Trophy voting.^[3] He finished his career as Boston College's all-time leading rusher, with 2,011 yards and 23 touchdowns.^[4] Holovak returned to coach the Eagles from 1951 to 1959.

Boston College ranked first nationally in rushing defense (48.9 yards allowed per game) and second in rushing offense (292.8 yards per game). They also ranked third nationally in both total offense (410.7 yards per game) and total defense (131.8 yards per game) and fourth in scoring offense (28.2 points per game). ^[5]

The team played all of its regular season games at Fenway Park in Boston.

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Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 3	West Virginia		Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 33–0	15,000
October 10	Clemson		Fenway Park Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 14–7	18,500–23,400	^[6]
October 17	North Carolina Pre-Flight	No. 11	Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 7–6	25,107
October 24	Wake Forest	No. 10	Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 27–0	20,000	^[7]^[8]
October 31	Georgetown	No. 7	Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 47–0	30,000	^[9]
November 7	Temple	No. 5	Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 28–0	24,000
November 14	Fordham	No. 3	Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 56–6	36,300
November 21	vs. Boston University	No. 3	Fenway Park Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 37–0	10,000
November 28	vs. Holy Cross	No. 1	Fenway Park Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 12–55	41,300
January 1, 1943	vs. No. 10 Alabama	No. 8	Burdine Stadium Miami, FL (Orange Bowl)	L 21–37	30,000	^[10]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

	Week
Poll	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Final
AP	11 (1)	10 (4)	7 (4)	5 (13)	3 (10)	3 (37)	1 (47)	8

v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Williams		–		7	–	1	–	0
No. 19 Penn State		–		6	–	1	–	1
No. 8 Boston College		–		8	–	2	–	0
Buffalo		–		6	–	2	–	0
Bucknell		–		6	–	2	–	1
Colgate		–		6	–	2	–	1
Army		–		6	–	3	–	0
Syracuse		–		6	–	3	–	0
Duquesne		–		6	–	3	–	1
Yale		–		5	–	3	–	0
Fordham		–		5	–	3	–	1
Penn		–		5	–	3	–	1
No. T–19 Holy Cross		–		5	–	4	–	1
Dartmouth		–		5	–	4	–	0
Brown		–		4	–	4	–	0
Villanova		–		4	–	4	–	0
Vermont		–		4	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		3	–	3	–	0
Boston University		–		4	–	5	–	0
Cornell		–		3	–	5	–	1
Princeton		–		3	–	5	–	1
Temple		–		2	–	5	–	3
Columbia		–		3	–	6	–	0
Pittsburgh		–		3	–	6	–	0
Tufts		–		2	–	5	–	1
Franklin & Marshall		–		1	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State		–		2	–	5	–	0
Harvard		–		2	–	6	–	1
Drexel		–		2	–	6	–	0
Manhattan		–		2	–	6	–	0
CCNY		–		1	–	7	–	1

Rankings from AP Poll

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