Brian Dowling

Birth : 1947-04-01, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Brian John Dowling (born April 1, 1947) was the starting quarterback of the Yale University football team in the late 1960s. He set, and held for decades, a number of Yale passing records. Dowling finished 9th in vote for the 1968 Heisman Trophy, and was awarded the Nils V. "Swede" Nelson Award for sportsmanship in 1967. The 1968 team was undefeated and favored going into The Game against Harvard University. Harvard was undefeated and untied, too. Harvard, trailing 29–13 with less than a minute remaining, rallied to tie the game, which ended with a score of 29–29. The contest's result inspired the Harvard Crimson to print the headline "Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29". Dowling at that point had lost only one game he started since the sixth grade. He played football in high school for St. Ignatius High School, located in Cleveland, Ohio. He played in two consecutive City Championship games in 1963 and 1964; St. Ignatius lost to Benedictine High School, 30-16, in the 1963 game but avenged the loss the following year with a 48-6 victory over Benedictine. Dowling played briefly in the National Football League for the New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers. He was drafted in the 11th round of the 1969 NFL draft by the Minnesota Vikings, but cut in training camp. He had two touchdown passes and three rushing touchdowns during his NFL career. The character B.D., in the Doonesbury comic strip, was originally based on Dowling, a Yale classmate of cartoonist Garry Trudeau. Dowling is currently an insurance industry consultant who works with a venture capitalist in the Boston area. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Dowling (American football), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

Movies

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
Self
Filmmaker Kevin Rafferty takes viewers to 1968 to witness a legendary college football game and meet the people involved, interweaving actual gridiron footage with the players' own reflections. The names may be familiar (Tommy Lee Jones and friends of Al Gore and George W. Bush are among the interviewees), but their views on the game's place in the turbulent history of the 1960s college scene add an unexpected dimension.