Friar Football

Beginning in 1921, just four years after the College’s opening in 1917, the Providence College football team took the field for the first time. Providence played at the Cycledrome and Hendricken Field and sometimes Cranston Stadium playing to crowds that sometimes exceeded 10,000 fans. They had a all-time record 67–86–16. During those years the school had rivals the like of Boston College, Holy Cross, St John's and Rhode Island State. With the coming of the Second World War the college suspended its football program. It was the need for soldiers in World War II that brought the varsity football era at Providence College to an end.