1953 Boston College Eagles football team

The 1953 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 1953 college football season. The Eagles were led by third-year head coach Mike Holovak and played their home games at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.

1953 Boston College Eagles football
ConferenceIndependent
1953 record5–3–1
Head coach
CaptainJoe Johnson[1]
Home stadiumFenway Park
1953 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 14 Army      7 1 1
Harvard      6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall      5 2 0
Hofstra      6 3 0
Penn State      6 3 0
Yale      5 2 2
Carnegie Tech      5 3 0
Boston College      5 3 1
Boston University      5 3 1
Syracuse      5 3 1
Princeton      5 4 0
Tufts      4 3 0
Cornell      4 3 2
Holy Cross      5 5 0
Temple      4 4 1
Colgate      3 4 2
Columbia      4 5 0
Fordham      4 5 0
Villanova      4 6 0
Drexel      2 3 1
Brown      3 5 1
Penn      3 5 1
Pittsburgh      3 5 1
Dartmouth      2 7 0
Buffalo      1 5 1
Bucknell      1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 26ClemsonT 14–1410,960
October 3at No. 19 LSUL 6–4225,000
October 11Villanova
  • Fenway Park
  • Boston, MA
L 7–1511,901
October 16at FordhamW 20–1313,000
October 25at XavierW 31–1410,000
October 31Richmond
  • Fenway Park
  • Boston, MA
L 0–146,167
November 7Wake Forest
  • Fenway Park
  • Boston, MA
W 20–73,273
November 15Detroit
  • Fenway Park
  • Boston, MA
W 33–207,628
November 28Holy Cross
W 6–037,000
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game time

Sources:[2][1]

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