The final game of the 2018 Syracuse Orange Campaign is against the Boston College Eagles. This is a schedule tradition as we have played the Eagles on the Saturday following Thanksgiving as long as I have been following the Orange.
In the past I have delved into questionable mascots (Tar Heel, Demon Deacon, Cardinal) but this time let’s understand how the Eagle became the mascot of BC:
“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: It is important that we adopt a mascot to preside at our pow-wows and triumphant feats….