1939 Boston College Eagles football team

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

1939 Eastern college football independents records

	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	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	Temple		Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 19–0	13,300
October 28	St. Anselm		Alumni Field Chestnut Hill, MA	W 28–0
November 4	Auburn		Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 13–7	14,000
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	40,432
January 1, 1940	vs. No. 12 Clemson	No. 11	Cotton Bowl Dallas, TX (Cotton Bowl / rivalry)	L 3–6	20,000
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game