22 Days Until the College Football Season Kicks Off
A quarterback in the twenties? A quarterback in the twenties.
Yesterday we highlighted a running back who I think will be the top back this upcoming season. Today for day 22, we will be looking at a quarterback who played in my neck of the woods and was instrumental in one of the craziest plays in college history.
Doug Flutie was born in Manchester, Maryland and after his family moved away from Florida, he played for Natick High School. He was an All League football, baseball, and basketball player for the Redmen.
He was recruited to play at Boston College and played from 1981 to 1984 with the Eagles. He was a starter for forty seven games through his career. He posted ten thousand five hundred passing yards with sixty seven yards.
Fluties most famous play came in the above picture, Hail Flutie. In a 1984 game when Boston College played Miami, the Hurricanes scored late to take the lead forty five to forty one with twenty eight seconds remaining.
After completing two passes that got Boston College over their own fifty yard line, six seconds still sat on the clock. On the final play of the game, Flutie scrambled and avoided a sack. He chucked the ball over fifty yards and was caught in the end zone by Gerard Phelan.
That 1984 year was massive for Flutie. He threw for just south of three thousand five hundred yards and twenty seven touchdowns.
For his efforts he was named All American, Sporting News Player of the Year, UPI Player of the Year, won the Davey O’Brien Award, the Walter Camp Award, the Maxwell Award, and the Heisman. His number twenty two was retired by the Eagles.
Flutie was drafted in the eleventh round of the 1985 NFL Draft by the New Jersey Generals. He would bounce between the NFL and CFL over his career.
Tomorrow for day 21 we’ll be taking a look at one of the most electric college players to ever play in Ann Arbor.