Red Bandanna banner at Alumni Stadium
(Photos by Seho Lee)

×ÔοÊÓÆµ's Red Bandanna Game will mark 25th anniversary of 9/11

Boston College’s annual Red Bandanna Football Game, which honors 9/11 hero Welles Crowther ’99, will take place in Alumni Stadium at 7:30 p.m. on September 11—the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

This year’s Red Bandanna Game, featuring a ×ÔοÊÓÆµ-Rutgers match-up, will include appearances by family members of Crowther and other ×ÔοÊÓÆµ alumni who died on 9/11, as well as a pre-game flyover by the United States Coast Guard and a drone show at halftime. Red bandannas will be given out to the first 10,000 spectators arriving. The game will be televised on ESPN2.

Welles Crowther

Crowther, who had played lacrosse for the Eagles, was working in the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Trained as a volunteer firefighter, Crowther became known as "The Man in the Red Bandanna" for the handkerchief he wore as a protective mask while organizing a rescue effort to guide survivors down the building's stairwells to safety. He was credited with saving as many as 18 people before perishing when the tower collapsed.

On September 8, Crowther the Presidential Medal of Freedom at an event in Washington, D.C.

The Red Bandanna Game has become one of the ×ÔοÊÓÆµ community’s most cherished campus traditions since it first began in 2011, then held each year beginning in 2014. Over time, other ×ÔοÊÓÆµ athletic teams have introduced their own Red Bandanna games.

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