I used to go to BC Hockey games when I was a young teenager thanks to a BC Grad who belonged to something similar to "The Big Brother" charity of today.
My benefactor named Mike was a BC grad who loved to attend their football and hockey games in Brookline Mass and would take youngsters like myself who had no fathers to the games thru his affiliation with The Catholic Charities Association that was full of graduates from my grammar school Sacred Heart Grammar and after that my high school St. Mary's High both of of which I also graduated from. Alas there was no money for BC so I joined The Army right out of high school.
The hockey games then like now were top notch college level games against the best schools in the country, Football was not quite as high up in the National Rankings at BC back then but I was fortunate enough to see the late great Ernie Davis play against BC during his senior year at Syracuse.
He ran for 3 TDs as The Orangemen routed the Eagles by a score of something like 41-24 on a beautiful fall New England Saturday afternoon. This was in 1961, Ernie Davis' senior year and the same year he won The Heisman Trophy (The first African American to win a Heisman).
Davis carried on the tradition at Syracuse of wearing #44 the same number the great Jim Brown and Floyd Little wore as Orangemen running backs. Syracuse retired #44 in 2005. Ernie Davis was elected posthumously to The College Football Hall of Fame in 1979. His never used #45 was retired by the Browns following his death in 1963 at the age of 23 from Leukemia.
Tragically he died after being drafted by The Cleveland Browns with the first overall pick in 1962 (the first African American to ever be drafted first overall) and obtained by trade before he ever played a down in The NFL by The Cleveland Browns from The Washington Redskins who obtained Hall of Famer Bobby Mitchell for the rights to draft Davis.
I have gotten off track, sorry - back to the 2010 BC Eagles Hockey Team. Last night in front of over 37,000 fans in Detroit's Ford Stadium they defeated Wisconsin 5-0 to win the tournament.
The victory earned BC a fourth all-time NCAA Division 1 title and gave Hub-based colleges three straight ice hockey national titles, with the Eagles bookending fellow Hockey East entrant Boston University’s epic triumph against Miami a year ago.
BC (29-10-3) was led by a two-goal performance by sophomore sensation Cam Atkinson, a three-assist effort from Joe Whitney, and another clutch showing by money-in-the-bank goaltender John Muse, who improved to 8-0 in NCAA postseason play.
There was some joy in Beantown last night and more today when the team is greeted by it's student body and fans of all ages.
Go Eagles...
wil.
My benefactor named Mike was a BC grad who loved to attend their football and hockey games in Brookline Mass and would take youngsters like myself who had no fathers to the games thru his affiliation with The Catholic Charities Association that was full of graduates from my grammar school Sacred Heart Grammar and after that my high school St. Mary's High both of of which I also graduated from. Alas there was no money for BC so I joined The Army right out of high school.
The hockey games then like now were top notch college level games against the best schools in the country, Football was not quite as high up in the National Rankings at BC back then but I was fortunate enough to see the late great Ernie Davis play against BC during his senior year at Syracuse.
He ran for 3 TDs as The Orangemen routed the Eagles by a score of something like 41-24 on a beautiful fall New England Saturday afternoon. This was in 1961, Ernie Davis' senior year and the same year he won The Heisman Trophy (The first African American to win a Heisman).
Davis carried on the tradition at Syracuse of wearing #44 the same number the great Jim Brown and Floyd Little wore as Orangemen running backs. Syracuse retired #44 in 2005. Ernie Davis was elected posthumously to The College Football Hall of Fame in 1979. His never used #45 was retired by the Browns following his death in 1963 at the age of 23 from Leukemia.
Tragically he died after being drafted by The Cleveland Browns with the first overall pick in 1962 (the first African American to ever be drafted first overall) and obtained by trade before he ever played a down in The NFL by The Cleveland Browns from The Washington Redskins who obtained Hall of Famer Bobby Mitchell for the rights to draft Davis.
I have gotten off track, sorry - back to the 2010 BC Eagles Hockey Team. Last night in front of over 37,000 fans in Detroit's Ford Stadium they defeated Wisconsin 5-0 to win the tournament.
The victory earned BC a fourth all-time NCAA Division 1 title and gave Hub-based colleges three straight ice hockey national titles, with the Eagles bookending fellow Hockey East entrant Boston University’s epic triumph against Miami a year ago.
BC (29-10-3) was led by a two-goal performance by sophomore sensation Cam Atkinson, a three-assist effort from Joe Whitney, and another clutch showing by money-in-the-bank goaltender John Muse, who improved to 8-0 in NCAA postseason play.
There was some joy in Beantown last night and more today when the team is greeted by it's student body and fans of all ages.
Go Eagles...
wil.
