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The first player in school history to amass more than 1,000 career receiving yards, Tom Boyd was the Wildcats leading receiver during both his sophomore and junior seasons. At the time of his graduation, he held school records for receiving yards in a game, season, and career. He also set a school record for most receptions in a game. Boyd played on Villanova’s varsity squad from 1967-69 and is a 1970 graduate. He was inducted to the Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 1992.
 
Boyd’s career totals include 115 receptions for 1,239 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns. His first varsity season was in 1967 and he led the team with 35 catches for 404 yards and four scores. He enjoyed a breakout season in 1968 when he set school records with 53 receptions and 572 yards. Boyd scored five touchdowns in 1968 for a Villanova team which went 6-4 and averaged 24.2 points per game. Notable games during the season included a shutout win over Delaware as well as victories over Xavier and on the road at VMI and Buffalo.
 
In the 1968 season opener against Toledo, Boyd set a school record with 12 receptions while recording 118 receiving yards. The mark of 12 catches in a game was tied on two occasions by Boyd’s own teammate, Mike Siani, but was not surpassed for 28 years until Brian Finneran had 16 catches in a game against Connecticut in 1996. Later in the 1968 season, Boyd set a then-school record with 147 receiving yards on 11 catches in a narrow 30-20 loss to West Virginia. He was only the seventh player in program history to record a 100+ yard receiving game when he had the 118-yard performance against Toledo.
 
More than 20 years after his graduation, Boyd remained seventh in school history in career receiving yards and ninth in a single season at the time of his Hall of Fame induction in 1992.