Brian Dowling

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 2913 with less than a minute remaining rallied to tie the game which ended with a score of 2929 The contests result inspired the Harvard Crimson to print the headline Harvard Beats Yale 2929 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 3016 in the 1963 game but avenged the loss the following year with a 486 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 BD 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia