Boston College Athletics
Hajjar Family Football Museum Readies For September Opening
August 10, 2005 | Football
Aug. 10, 2005
BC Athletics officials are putting finishing touches on the Hajjar Family Football Museum, located in the main entry area of the new Yawkey Athletics Center. The museum will open to the public on Saturday, Sept. 10, the day of the football season opener vs. Army.
"We can't wait for our fans to see our museum," Director of Athletics Gene DeFilippo says. "Construction of the Yawkey Center has enabled us to assemble a fitting tribute to the rich history of Boston College football."
Located in the main entry lobby, the museum will feature a soaring bronze eagle atop a lighted granite pedestal as its centerpiece. A multimedia kiosk will enable visitors to watch video highlights of great games and players in BC football history. Visitors will be allowed to touch and have photos taken with Doug Flutie's Heisman Trophy and flip through an oversized scrapbook of newspaper clips from great games.
This past March, football staff and players as well as the Office of Learning Resources for Student-Athletes moved into the $27 million, 72,000-square-foot Yawkey Center, which includes new football offices, meeting and breakout rooms, locker rooms, sports medicine, strength and conditioning, equipment room, theater-style classrooms, recruiting and player lounges. BC received a commitment of $15 million from the Yawkey Foundation to help fund the new building and other athletics-related improvements to enhance intercollegiate, intramural and club sports. The museum will feature a large tribute panel honoring the Yawkey Foundation for its generous gift.
After viewing the company's impressive work at North Carolina, North Carolina State and Virginia Tech, BC contracted with DJS Design of Charlotte, NC, for concept, design and construction of the museum. A team of BC administrators and historians worked with the DJS staff for nearly two years on the project.
