The name comes from a 1904 plan by the Jesuits of Santa Clara University to build a new university named for their founder , St. Ignatius of Loyola , in the area . If the plan had come to fruition , the university would have been located in the area of the present-day golf course on Country Club Drive . The Loyola project succumbed to delays and financing problems stemming from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Loyola, California