BU Honors 91-Year-Old Terrier Hockey Superfan

When BU undergrad Richard Yeo went to his first Terrier hockey game in 1951, Harry Truman was president, humans had not yet stepped on the moon, and BU’s football team (RIP) was playing home games at Fenway Park. Yeo (CAS’55) took his future wife, Elinor, to hockey games on their first dates, and they regularly attended home games until her death in 2023. He now watches most BU games on ESPN+, emailing scouting reports to friends. At the March 6 game versus No. 6 Providence College, BU Athletics honored the 91-year-old Yeo—whose uncle, J. Wendell Yeo (Wheelock’29, ’32), was a School of Education dean and vice president of student affairs—for his decades of Terrier hockey fandom with a tribute over the PA system and a personalized jersey with the number 33, his birth year (Yeo is flanked by Jake Maliel [Questrom’03], left, and BU senior writer and editor Steve Holt). The men’s team also honored, and delighted, Yeo by shellacking the Friars, 8-2. Photo by Matt Woolverton, BU Athletics