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The Eagle nickname and mascot for Boston College's teams were given by Rev. Edward McLaughlin. Fr. McLaughlin, incensed at a Boston newspaper cartoon depicting the champion BC track team as a cat licking clean a plate of its rivals, penned a passionate letter to the student newspaper, The Heights, in the newspaper's first year in 1920.
Baldwin the Eagle, an anthropomorphized bald eagle, is the mascot of the Boston College Eagles.. The nickname "Eagles" goes back to 1920 when Rev. Edward McLaughlin, unhappy at seeing a newspaper cartoon which represented Boston College as a cat after a track victory, wrote to the college newspaper The Heights: [1]
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Boston College was founded through the efforts of the first Jesuit community in New England, which was established at St. Mary's Church in Boston in 1849. [16] Jesuit priest John McElroy maintained the vision for what became BC, recognizing the need for an educational institution for the Irish Catholic immigrant population. [17]
English: Atlantic Coast Conference logo in Boston College Eagles colors. Date: 1 June 2017: ... Boston College Eagles; Metadata. This file contains additional ...
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Although BC High and Boston College are now separate institutions, the two schools' athletic programs share the Eagle mascot, and graduates of BC High and BC are known as "Double Eagles." [8] (Graduates of BC High, BC, and BC's graduate schools (traditionally the law school) are called "Triple Eagles." [8] [12]) Due to its shared history with ...