The 1996 Boston University Terriers football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

as a member of the

Yankee Conference The Yankee Conference was a collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States. From 1947 to 1976, it sponsored competition in many sports, but was a football-only league from mid-1976 until its dissolution in 1996. It is essentially the an ...

during the

1996 NCAA Division I-AA football season The 1996 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I-AA level, began in August 1996, and concluded with the 1996 NCAA Division I-AA ...

. The Terriers compiled a 1–10 record (0–8 against conference opponents), finished last in the Yankee Conference's New England Division, and were outscored by a total of 373 to 119. The school hired

Tom Masella Tom Masella (born July 11, 1959) is an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at Wagner College, a position he has held since 2020. Massella served as the head football coach at Boston University from 1996 to 199 ...

as its head football coach in December 1995. He had previously been an assistant coach under Dan Allen before leaving in 1995 to become head football coach at

Fairfield University Fairfield University is a private Jesuit university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In 2017, the university had about 4,100 full-time undergraduate students and 1,100 graduate students, including full-time ...

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Boston University Terriers football : ''For information on all Boston University sports, see Boston University Terriers'' The Boston University Terriers football team was the American football team for Boston University located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school's first football te ...