Maurice Vincent Dullea, SJ was born on January 3, 1896 in South Boston to Michael and Mary (O’Neill) Dullea. He attended Lawrence Grammar School and Boston Latin School before attending Boston College. He was a BC undergraduate student and member of the football team from 1913-1917, played in the dedication game of the College’s first football field on campus, and was captain of the BC football team in 1916. After graduating in 1917, Dullea applied to the Officers Reserve Corps at Plattsburg Barracks in New York but was not selected. In 1929 Dullea was ordained to the priesthood in the Society of Jesus at Weston College.
Dullea served as Boston College Faculty Moderator of Athletics two terms, 1940-1943 (he left BC in 1943 to work at the Cranwell Preparatory School as Rector) and 1946-1957, and he was a Professor of Theology at Boston College from 1958 until he retired in 1967. During Dullea's first term as Moderator of Athletics, the BC football team won the Sugar Bowl in January, 1941.
He was awarded the Boston College Presidential Bicentennial Award in 1976, and was inducted into the Boston College Varsity Club Athletic Hall of Fame in 1978. “BC President Rev. J. Donald Monan, said, ‘Both in his span of years and in the quiet force of his person, Fr. Maurice Dullea has been one of Boston College’s most revered and beloved Jesuits’” (Boston Globe, August 25, 1984). Dullea died in August 1984.
