Dayton at Boston College

Saturday, October 12, 1957

Boston College beat Dayton 41–⁠14. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayDayton6–⁠3–⁠1 in 1957
14
HomeBoston College7–⁠2 in 1957
41

FinalHigh 60°F, low 40°FAttendance 12,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Boston College Routs Dayton on AIIurd's PASSING

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 13, 1957, page 67

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    Boston College Routs Dayton on AIIurd’s PASSING NEWTON. Mass, Oct. IL up. Quarterback Don Allard shook OF a flu bug and a flock Of Dayton tacklers to pass for two touchdownS and set up three more today as Boston College rolled to a AHA victory. Allard. bedded with the flu for two days earlier this week, put the Eagles ahead for keeps in the waning minutes of the first half after the football teams traded two touchdowns apiece. The triple-threat junior tossed II yards to Flllback Don Seagar in the end zone to cap a 58-yard drive and put Be ahead 21-l4. Allard. who ranked ninth in the Nation in passing going into the game, completed 10 to Is aerials for 200 yards. The Eagles exploded for three more scores in the third period when the scrappy Flyers defenses collapsed. Dayton O Ola Boston college III : ii 90 eli Scoring---Dayton: Touchdowns-Palvan q, plunee); Huber %, plunge. Conversions-Raif C2l Boston College: Touehdovns-SeaEar g. run: II, pasS-run from Allard), Colclough . q. plunge. .. pass from Allardl: Brown IS, rum: DugEan 90. rum. CONVEX sions-Ailard. Cotter ca FLANAGAN tpass from Allard), Brown.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Boston College 80% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Boston College leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

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