1941 Sugar Bowl

American college football game January 2019 December 2025 1941 Sugar Bowl 1940 File:TulaneStadiumFront1.jpg Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, hosted the Sugar Bowl. 7 Sugar Bowl Boston College Eagles Tennessee Volunteers 10–0 Independent 10–0 SEC Frank Leahy Robert Neyland 5 4 0 0 13 6 7 0 6 0 January 1 Tulane Stadium New Orleans, Louisiana Tennessee James Cheves (SEC;split crew: SEC, EAIFO) 73,181http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2011/Bowls.pdf Bowl/All-Star Game Records National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 2011 NCAA Division I Football Records 33 NCAA.org September 30, 2011 PDF The 1941 Sugar Bowl featured the fourth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers and the fifth-ranked Boston College Eagles, both with records of 10–0 and high-scoring offenses.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XiFWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CeQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6799%2C80121 Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Associated Press Football curtain drops today as games are played in many stadiums January 1, 1941 11https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F8YVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Qg4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3867%2C203911 Milwaukee Sentinel Associated Press Tennessee is favored today January 1, 1941 4B The seventh edition of the Sugar Bowl, it was played on Wednesday, January 1, 1941, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=y6VQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ryIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6093%2C275629 Milwaukee Journal United Press O'Rourke sparks rally that beats Tennessee January 2, 1941 11https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GMYVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Qg4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6640%2C338157 Milwaukee Sentinel Martin Whitney Associated Press 73,000 see O'Rourke lead Boston College to 19-13 victory January 2, 1941 12https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XyFWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CeQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6721%2C347740 Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Associated Press Boston College in wild victory January 2, 1941 11 Tennessee scored the only points of the first half with a four-yard touchdown run by Van Thompson in the first quarter. After a scoreless second quarter, Boston College scored on a 13-yard touchdown run from Harry Connolly to tie the score at 7–7. Tennessee answered with a two-yard touchdown run from Warren Buist for a 13–7 lead. Boston College scored on a one-yard rushing touchdown from Mike Holovak to tie the game at 13–13. In the fourth quarter, Tennessee's Bob Foxx missed a short field goal attempt with three minutes remaining, and BC took over on its own 20-yard-line. Quarterback Charlie O'Rourke led the Eagles on an 80-yard drive, capped with his 24-yard touchdown run to give them a 19–13 win. As this game was contested before the Sugar Bowl was racially integrated, Boston College played without halfback Lou Montgomery, an African-American.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/21/sports/bob-ryan-harry-agganis-boston/ Seventy years after his premature death, there’s still never been anyone in these parts quite like Harry Agganis Bob Ryan Bob Ryan The Boston Globe limited June 21, 2025 June 21, 2025 This was in sharp contrast to the shameful Boston College decision six years earlier to play in the Sugar Bowl without Black running back Lou Montgomery. Comments from sportswriters of the era included "there's no use borrowing trouble when it can be avoided."https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-union-speaking-of-sports/175004724/ Speaking of Sports Vic Wall The Morning Union Springfield, Massachusetts 19 December 11, 1940 June 21, 2025 newspapers.com Montgomery had also sat out Boston College's prior bowl game, the 1940 Cotton Bowl Classic, contested in Dallas.Bryan Marquard BC's First Black Football Player Honored The Boston Globe September 2, 2012 https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/09/01/first-black-player-lou-montgomery-honored/VmVWMRc8lBHnhT6XRyGnqK/story.html limited The first interracial bowl game did not occur until after World War II, the 1948 Cotton Bowl Classic, and the Sugar Bowl did not integrate until its 1956 edition. References Further reading https://www.sportsmuseum.org/curators-corner/the-heights-of-heartbreak-lou-montgomery/ The Heights of Heartbreak/ Lou Montgomery Richard Johnson The Sports Museum In my 43 years of working at The Sports Museum, one of the most heartbreaking images I’ve come across is this grainy news photo of Boston College star football player Lou Montgomery listening to the 1941 Sugar Bowl, a game in which he should have been a notable participant. Sugar Bowl Category:Sugar Bowl Category:Boston College Eagles football bowl games Category:Tennessee Volunteers football bowl games Sugar Bowl Sugar Bowl