Doug Flutie played for Boston College from 1981 to 1984. Boston College was the only Division I-A school to recruit him. Flutie won the Heisman Trophy and the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award in his senior year (1984).
On November 23, 1984, Doug Flutie's "Hail Mary" finds Gerard Phelan to give BC a huge 47-45 win over Miami.
The subsequent rise in applications for admission to Boston College, gave rise to the admissions phenomenon known as the "Flutie effect." This idea essentially states that a winning sports team can increase the recognition value of a university enough to make it a more elite school.
Twenty years later in November 2008, Dough Flutie was honored by Boston College with a statue of his “Hail Mary” pass.
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