1951 Boston University Terriers football team

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1951 Boston University Terriers football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 16
Record6–4
Head coach
Home stadiumFenway Park
Seasons
← 1950
1952 →
1951 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Bucknell   –   9 – 0 – 0
No. 6 Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 0
Susquehanna   –   6 – 0 – 0
Trenton State   –   6 – 0 – 0
Northeastern   –   6 – 0 – 1
No. 19 Holy Cross   –   8 – 2 – 0
Carnegie Tech
   –   6 – 2 – 0
Hofstra
   –   6 – 2 – 1
Cornell   –   6 – 3 – 0
No. 16 Boston University   –   6 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   6 – 4 – 0
Columbia   –   5 – 3 – 0
Villanova   –   5 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 4 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   5 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   5 – 4 – 0
Syracuse   –   5 – 4 – 0
Buffalo   –   4 – 4 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 5 – 0
Dartmouth   –   4 – 5 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 4 – 0
Harvard   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   3 – 6 – 0
Yale   –   2 – 5 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 7 – 0
Geneva
   –   2 – 5 – 0
Army   –   2 – 7 – 0
Brown   –   2 – 7 – 0
NYU   –   1 – 7 – 0
Tufts   –   0 – 7 – 2
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1951 Boston University Terriers football team was an

AP Poll, just shy of the top 15. This was largely due to two first place votes that were granted to the team, becoming only the second team to receive first place votes in the final poll with a winning percentage of .600 or worse, the first being 5–4–1 Holy Cross in 1942. The 1951 Boston team is considered by James Vautravers, a college football historian who analyzes past AP polls, to be the worst AP rated team of all time.[2] The team was ranked at No. 54 in the 1951 Litkenhous Ratings.[3]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22at William & Mary
L 25–3410,000[4]
September 29at Penn State
L 34–4015,536
October 6at
duPont Manual Stadium
  • Louisville, KY
    		• W 39–710,000[5]
    October 132:00 p.m.
    Camp Lejeune
    		W 16–05,900[6][7][8]
    October 19No. 16 Pacific (CA)
    • Fenway Park
    • Boston, MA
    		W 27–12
    October 27at Temple
    		L 13–2010,000[9]
    November 3NYU
    • Fenway Park
    • Boston, MA
    		W 52–65,000[10]
    November 10
    Oregon
    • Fenway Park
    • Boston, MA
    		W 32–6[11]
    November 17Wichita
    • Fenway Park
    • Boston, MA
    		W 39–68,442[12]
    November 24Syracuse
    • Fenway Park
    • Boston, MA
    		L 19–2610,148[13]

    References

    1. ^ "1951 Boston University Terriers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
    2. ^ "Fixing the 1951 AP Poll".
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    11. ^ Holbrook, Bob (November 11, 1951). "B. U. Routs Oregon, 35-6, Behind Agganis, Kastan". Daily Boston Globe. p. C55.
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    13. ^ "Syracuse Grid Team Tests Terriers at Fenway Park". The Christian Science Monitor. Boston, MA. November 23, 1951. pp. 4, 15.
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