1944 San Diego Naval Training Station Bluejackets football team

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1944 San Diego Naval Training Station Bluejackets football
ConferenceIndependent
1944 record4–3–1
Head coach
Home stadiumHull Field
Seasons
← 1943
1944 military service football records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 3 Randolph Field   –   12 – 0 – 0
No. 5 Bainbridge   –   10 – 0 – 0
No. 18 Fort Pierce   –   9 – 0 – 0
No. 13 Norman NAS   –   6 – 0 – 0
No. 6 Iowa Pre-Flight   –   10 – 1 – 0
No. 16 El Toro Marines   –   8 – 1 – 0
Bunker Hill NAS   –   6 – 1 – 0
No. 3 Great Lakes Navy   –   9 – 2 – 1
No. 10 March Field   –   7 – 2 – 2
North Carolina Pre-Flight   –   6 – 2 – 1
No. 20 Second Air Force   –   10 – 4 – 1
Camp Peary   –   5 – 2 – 0
Third Air Force   –   7 – 3 – 1
Alameda Coast Guard   –   4 – 2 – 2
San Francisco Coast Guard   –   4 – 2 – 1
Coronado Amphibious   –   2 – 1 – 1
Fleet City   –   6 – 4 – 1
San Diego NTS   –   4 – 3 – 1
No. 19 Saint Mary's Pre-Flight   –   4 – 4 – 0
Klamath Falls Marines   –   2 – 2 – 1
Maxwell Field   –   4 – 5 – 0
Fairfield-Suisun AAB   –   1 – 7 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1944 San Diego Naval Training Station Bluejackets football team was an American football team that represented San Diego Naval Training Station during the 1944 college football season. The team was coached by Skip Stahley, former head coach at Brown,[1] and played its home games on Hull Field in San Diego. The Bluejackets compiled a 4–3–1 record.

Key players included quarterback Clyde LeForce, formerly of Tulsa and later with the Detroit Lions, and end John Stonebraker, formerly of USC and the Green Bay Packers.[1]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 231005th Army Engineers (Wilmington)
W 65–0[2]
October 1Compton College
  • Hull Field
  • San Diego
W 85–0[3]
October 7UCLA
  • Hull Field
  • San Diego
W 14–125,000[4]
October 15El Toro Marines
  • Hull Field
  • San Diego
L 0–6[5]
October 22Fort MacArthur
  • Hull Field
  • San Diego
W 69–0[6]
October 29Coronado Amphibious Training Center
  • Hull Field
  • San Diego
T 0–0[7]
November 4at USC
L 21–2828,000[8]
November 19at March Field
  • Hull Field
  • San Diego
L 0–75,500[9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Few Vets On Squad". San Francisco Examiner. Associated Press. September 18, 1944. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "San Diego Navy Wallops Engineers". San Bernardino County Sun. September 24, 1944. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Sailors Sink Tartars, 85-0". Long Beach Sun. October 2, 1944. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Wolf, Al (8 October 1944). "Bluejackets shade bruins". Los Angeles Times.
  5. ^ "Marines Edge San Diego Navy By Touchdown". The San Bernardino County Sun. October 16, 1944. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "SDN". The Los Angeles Times. 22 October 1944. p. 22.
  7. ^ "San Diego Navy Held To Tie by Underdogs". San Bernardino County Sun. October 30, 1944. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Braven Dyer (October 29, 1944). "Trojans in Romp Over Beardless Gaels, 34-7". Los Angeles Times. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "March Field Edges Strong S.D. Navy, 7-0: Cantor Goes Over After 35-Yard Jacobs-Strode Pass". The San Bernardino County Sun. November 20, 1944. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
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