O'Rourke–McFadden Trophy
History
First Meeting	Clemson, 6-3 (1940)
Last Meeting	Clemson, 36-14 (2011)
Next Meeting	TBA
Number of Meetings	21
All-Time Series	Clemson, 10-9-2
Largest victory	Tied; Clemson, 34-12 (1958); Clemson, 36-14 (2011)
Current Streak	Clemson, 1
Longest Clem Win Streak	3 (1950–1952)
Longest BC Win Streak	4 (1983–2007)
Trophy:	O'Rourke–McFadden Trophy (2008–Present)
Trophy Series:	Clemson, 3-1

The O'Rourke–McFadden Trophy was created in 2008 by the Boston College Gridiron Club in order to honor the tradition at Clemson

Clemson University

Clemson University is an American public, coeducational, land-grant, sea-grant, research university located in Clemson, South Carolina, United States....

 and Boston College

Boston College

Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

 to honor the legacy of Charlie O'Rourke

Charlie O'Rourke

Charles C. O'Rourke also known as Chuckin' Charlie is a former quarterback and defensive back for the Boston College Eagles, Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Dons, and Baltimore Colts. He quarterbacked the BC football team to one of its most famous wins...

 and Banks McFadden

Banks McFadden

Banks McFadden was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1959. McFadden attended Great Falls High School in South Carolina, where he led the Red Devils to two state championships in football and one in basketball...

, who played during the leather helmet era. The club plans to make this an annual presentation.

Trophy history

The Boston College Gridiron Club initiated the trophy to honor the relationship between Clemson and Boston College that goes back almost 70 years. The trophy was started to recognize the efforts of Tiger fans welcoming Boston College into the ACC. The trophy features two leather helmet

Leather helmet

A leather helmet is a form of protective headgear fashioned primarily out of leather .People have manufactured leather clothing, including headgear, for millennia....

 replicas of those used by Charlie O’Rourke of Boston College and Banks McFadden of Clemson, when they competed against each other in the 1940 Cotton Bowl Classic in Dallas, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. In addition to the trophy presentation, the Boston College Gridiron Club presents a replica leather helmet to the MVP of the winning school. The helmet will reflect the colors of the winning team.

Year	Winner	Score	MVP	Position
2008	Clemson 2008 Clemson Tigers football team The 2008 Clemson football team represented Clemson University in the 2008 college football season. The Tigers were led by oft-maligned head coach Tommy Bowden, who resigned six games into his tenth season. The interim head coach was assistant coach Dabo Swinney...	27-21	C. J. Spiller C. J. Spiller Clifford "C.J." Spiller Jr. is an American Football running back for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was an All-American at Clemson University and was drafted 9th overall in the 2010 NFL Draft...	RB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...
2009	Clemson 2009 Clemson Tigers football team The 2009 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson University in the 2009 college football season. The Tigers were led by head coach Dabo Swinney, who was in his first full season as head coach. The Tigers played their home games in Memorial Stadium...	25-7	Richard Jackson	PK
2010	Boston College 2010 Boston College Eagles football team The 2010 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Eagles were led by second year head coach Frank Spaziani and played their home games at Alumni Stadium. They were members of the Atlantic Coast Conference in the Atlantic...	16-10	Montel Harris Montel Harris Montel Lamar Harris is a college football running back with the Boston College Eagles.-High School:Harris attended Trinity Christian Academy in Jacksonville, Florida along with tailback Jamie Harper...	RB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...
2011	Clemson 2011 Clemson Tigers football team The 2011 Clemson Tigers football team represents Clemson University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers will be led by head coach Dabo Swinney in his third full year and fourth overall since taking over midway through 2008 season. They will play their home games at Memorial...	36-14	Chandler Catanzaro	PK

Namesakes

Charlie O’Rourke led Boston College from the quarterback position to a 26-3-2 record in his three years as the quarterback of the Eagles between 1938-40. One of those three losses was to McFadden and Clemson in the 1940 Cotton Bowl Classic. O'Rourke later went on to play quarterback and defensive back for the Chicago Bears

Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

, Los Angeles Dons

Los Angeles Dons

The Los Angeles Dons were an American football team in the now defunct All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1949 that played in the Los Angeles Coliseum....

, and Baltimore Colts. After two years as an NFL coach, he coached at Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts

This article relates to the statewide university system. For the flagship campus often referred to as "UMass", see University of Massachusetts Amherst...

 from 1952-59. He later served as commissioner of the Pop Warner League

Pop Warner Little Scholars

Pop Warner Little Scholars is a non-profit organization that provides youth football, cheerleading, and dance programs for participants in 43 U.S. states and several countries around the world. It is headquartered in Langhorne, Pennsylvania...

, a national organization of junior football teams. O’Rourke had his jersey retired at Boston College and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

College Football Hall of Fame

The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move...

 in 1972.

Banks McFadden led the Tigers to a 9-1 record in 1939 as the starting quarterback. He was an All-American in football and basketball at Clemson. The 1939 football team finished 12th in the final AP poll, Clemson’s first top 20 season on record, and the win over Boston College in the Cotton Bowl Classic was Clemson’s first bowl appearance. In the spring of 1939 he led Clemson to the Southern Conference

Southern Conference

The Southern Conference is a Division I college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision . Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North...

 Basketball championship. McFadden was Clemson’s first inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1959. McFadden was the #4 overall pick of the 1940 NFL Draft

1940 NFL Draft

The 1940 National Football League Draft was held on December 9, 1939.-Player selections:-Round one:-Round two:-Round three:-Round four:-Round five:-Round six:-Round seven:-Round eight:-Round nine:-Round ten:...

 by the Brooklyn Dodgers

Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)

The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers. The team played its home games at Ebbets Field. In 1945, because of financial difficulties, the team was merged with the Boston Yanks...

. After one year in the NFL and a stint in the Army Air Corps

United States Army Air Corps

The United States Army Air Corps was a forerunner of the United States Air Force. Renamed from the Air Service on 2 July 1926, it was part of the United States Army and the predecessor of the United States Army Air Forces , established in 1941...

 during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, he returned to Clemson and held coaching positions in football, basketball and track. McFadden became the first coach in college basketball history to improve his conference wins in five consecutive seasons.

Series History

Clemson first met Boston College on the football field in the 1940 Cotton Bowl Classic, a 6-3 Tiger victory and the first ever bowl game for the Tigers. Over the next forty-three years, the teams met a total of thirteen times with Clemson winning six of eleven meetings.

In 2005, Boston College joined the Atlantic Coast Conference

Atlantic Coast Conference

The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...

 and was placed in the Atlantic Division. Since then, the divisional match-up has been played on an annual basis with Boston College leading the series 4-3. As of 2011, Clemson leads the all-time series at 10-9-2.

Game results

Date	Winner	Score	Location	Attendance	Series
January 1, 1940	Clemson	6-3	Cotton Bowl Cotton Bowl (stadium) The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1929 and became known as "The House That Doak Built" due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s. Originally known as Fair Park Stadium, it is located in Fair Park,...  • Dallas, TX (1940 Cotton Bowl Classic)	20,000	CU 1-0
October 11, 1941	Clemson	26-13	Fenway Park Fenway Park Fenway Park is a baseball park near Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts. Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912, and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use. It is one of two "classic"...  • Boston, MA		CU 2-0
October 10, 1942	Boston College	14-7	Fenway Park • Boston, MA		CU 2-1
September 26, 1947	Boston College	32-22	Braves Field Braves Field Braves Field was a baseball park that formerly stood on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. The stadium was home to the Boston Braves National League franchise from 1915–1952, when the team moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin...  • Boston, MA		Tied 2-2
October 29, 1948	Clemson	26-19	Braves Field • Boston, MA		CU 3-2
November 5, 1949	Boston College	40-27	Memorial Stadium Memorial Stadium, Clemson Frank Howard Field at Memorial Stadium, popularly known as Death Valley, is home to the Clemson University Tigers, a NCAA Division I-A football team, located in Clemson, South Carolina...  • Clemson, SC		Tied 3-3
November 11, 1950	Clemson	35-14	Braves Field • Boston, MA		CU 4-3
November 10, 1951	Clemson	21-2	Memorial Stadium • Clemson, SC		CU 5-3
October 31, 1952	Clemson	13-0	Braves Field • Boston, MA		CU 6-3
September 26, 1953	Tie	14-14	Fenway Park • Boston, MA		CU 6-3-1
November 22, 1958	Clemson	34-12	Memorial Stadium • Clemson, SC		CU 7-3-1
November 19, 1960	Boston College	25-14	Alumni Stadium Alumni Stadium Alumni Stadium is a football stadium located on the campus of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, approximately sixmiles west of downtown Boston. The stadium lies within the city limits of Boston, although its postal address is Chestnut Hill. It is the home of the Boston College Eagles...  • Chestnut Hill, MA		CU 7-4-1
September 18, 1982	Tie	17-17	Memorial Stadium • Clemson, SC	63,000	CU 7-4-2
September 10, 1983	Boston College	31-16	Alumni Stadium • Chestnut Hill, MA		CU 7-5-2
September 24, 2005	Boston College	16-131OT	Memorial Stadium • Clemson, SC	79,000	CU 7-6-2
September 9, 2006	Boston College	34-332OT	Alumni Stadium • Chestnut Hill, MA	44,500	Tied 7-7-2
November 17, 2007	Boston College	20-17	Memorial Stadium • Clemson, SC	81,500	BC 8-7-2
November 1, 2008	Clemson	27-21	Alumni Stadium • Chestnut Hill, MA	41,863	Tied 8-8-2
September 19, 2009	Clemson	25-7	Memorial Stadium • Clemson, SC	77,000	CU 9-8-2
October 30, 2010	Boston College	16-10	Alumni Stadium • Chestnut Hill, MA	37,137	Tied 9-9-2
October 8, 2011	Clemson	36-14	Memorial Stadium • Clemson, SC	78,000	CU 10-9-2