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1942 Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers Football Team
The 1942 Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers football team represented the United States Navy pre-flight aviation training school at the University of Georgia during the 1942 college football season. The team compiled a 7–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 183 to 105. The team was ranked No. 3 among the service teams in a poll of 91 sports writers conducted by the Associated Press. Raymond "Bear" Wolf was the team's head coach. The roster of the 1942 Georgia Pre-Flight team was made up of stars from colleges and NFL teams around the country. Notable players (with their prior team in parenthesis) included: Frank Filchock (Washington Redskins), Bob Suffridge (Philadelphia Eagles), Ernie Blandin (Tulane), Jim Poole (New York Giants), Charlie Timmons (Georgia/Clemson), Allie White (Philadelphia Eagles), Darrell Tully (Detroit Lions), Herschel Ramsey (Philadelphia Eagles), Bob Foxx (Tennessee, 1939 SEC Co-Player of the Year), Noble Doss (Texas), Billy Patterson ( Pit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1942 NCAA Football Rankings
One human poll comprised the 1942 college football season, 1942 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason—the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll. The Coaches' Poll began operation in 1950; in addition, the AP Poll did not begin conducting preseason polls until that same year. Legend AP Poll The final AP Poll was released on November 30, at the end of the 1942 college football season, 1942 regular season, weeks before the major bowls. The AP would not release a post-bowl season final poll regularly until 1968 NCAA University Division football rankings, 1968. AP Service Poll On December 2, a special panel of 91 sportswriters for the Associated Press released a ranking of the US service academy football teams, as they ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allie White
Thomas Allison White (March 23, 1915 – October 21, 1996) was an American football guard and tackle who played one season, in 1939, with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Eagles in the 13th round of the 1939 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas Christian University (TCU) and attended Masonic Home School in Fort Worth, Texas. Allie was the first player in Texas high school history to be voted all state three times in high school. While at TCU, he played with both Sammy Baugh and Davey O’Brien. Later, Allie coached for TCU, and his most prized recruit and player was Bob Lilly. He was inducted into the TCU Lettermen's Association Hall of Fame in 1970. He was born in Crosby, Texas Crosby is a census-designated place in Harris County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,417 at the 2020 census. History The site north of U.S. Route 90 (according to some) was an encampment nicknamed Lick Skillet in 1823 by Humphr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters Football
The North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters represented the U.S. Navy pre-flight school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the college football seasons of 1942, 1943 and 1944 during World War II. The North Carolina Pre-Flight School was established on February 1, 1942, by the Secretary of the Navy and opened that April. The football team was later organized and competed against other military teams in addition to major college teams of the period. During their three years in existence, the Cloudbusters compiled an overall record of sixteen wins, eight losses and three ties (16–8–3). North Carolina Pre-Flight was coached by one of Notre Dame's former "Four Horsemen" and Fordham head coach Jim Crowley in 1942 and went 8–2–1. The Cloudbusters were coached by former Baylor head coach Frank Kimbrough in 1943 and went 2–4–1. In 1944, they were led by Glenn Killinger and went 6–2–1. The Cloudbusters were also known for having both future College Football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Philadelphia Inquirer
''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region of Southeastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey, Delaware, and the northern Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the 17th largest in the United States as of 2017. Founded on June 1, 1829 as ''The Pennsylvania Inquirer'', the newspaper is the third longest continuously operating daily newspaper in the nation. It has won 20 Pulitzer Prizes . ''The Inquirer'' first became a major newspaper during the American Civil War. The paper's circulation dropped after the Civil War's conclusion but then rose again by the end of the 19th century. Originally supportive of the Democratic Party, ''The Inquirers political orientation eventually shifted toward the Whig Party and then the Republican Party before officially becoming politically independent in the middle of the 20th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin Field
Franklin Field is a sports stadium in Philadelphia, United States, at the eastern edge of the University of Pennsylvania's campus. It is the home stadium for the Penn Relays, and the University of Pennsylvania's stadium for football, track and field and lacrosse. It is also used by Penn students for recreation, and for intramural and club sports, including touch football and cricket, and is the site of Penn's graduation exercises, weather permitting. Franklin Field is the oldest stadium still operating for football. It was the first college stadium in the United States with a scoreboard and the second with an upper deck of seats. In 1922, it was the site of the first radio broadcast of a football game in 1922 on WIP, as well as of the first television broadcast of a football game by Philco. From 1958 until 1970, the stadium was the home field of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. History Until around 1860, the grounds of what became Franklin Field served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1942 Penn Quakers Football Team ...
The 1942 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1942 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach George Munger, the team compiled a 5–3–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 168 to 72. Penn was ranked at No. 22 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942. The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. Schedule References {{Penn Quakers football navbox Penn Penn Quakers football seasons Penn Quakers football The Penn Quakers football program is the college football team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The Penn Quakers have competed in the Ivy League since its inaugural season of 1956, and are a Division I Football Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Piasecky
Alexander Piasecky (February 1, 1917 – September 16, 1992) was an American football end in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James .... 1917 births 1992 deaths American football wide receivers Duke Blue Devils football players Players of American football from Pennsylvania Washington Redskins players Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers football players People from Greensburg, Pennsylvania Players of American football from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania {{widereceiver-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in , the Steelers are the seventh-oldest franchise in the NFL, and the oldest franchise in the AFC. In contrast with their status as perennial also-rans in the pre- merger NFL, where they were the oldest team never to have won a league championship, the Steelers of the post- merger (modern) era are among the most successful NFL franchises, especially during their dynasty in the 1970s. The team is tied with the New England Patriots for the most Super Bowl titles at six, and they have both played in (sixteen times) and hosted (eleven times) more conference championship games than any other team in the NFL. The Steelers have also won eight AFC championships, tied with the Denver Broncos, but behind the Patriots' record eleven AFC championships. The team i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Patterson
Joseph William Patterson Jr. (August 20, 1918 – July 10, 1998) was an American football player who played two seasons in the NFL with the Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers. Early life Patterson was born in Hillsboro, Texas and attended Hillsboro High School. He was inducted into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame in 1988. He matriculated at Baylor University. He was named to Baylor's 1930s All-Decade Team and was the 1939 East–West Shrine Game MVP. He was inducted into the Baylor Hall of Fame in 1963. Football career Patterson was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the third round of the 1939 NFL Draft. He played for the Chicago Cardinals in 1939 and returned to the Steelers in 1940. He played quarterback, halfback and punted. Personal See also * List of college football yearly passing leaders The list of college football yearly passing and total offense leaders identifies the major college passing leaders for each season from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noble Doss
Noble Webster Doss (May 22, 1920 – February 15, 2009) was an American football halfback who played professionally for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL) and the New York Yankees of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). He played college football at Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 .... References External links NFL.com profile* 1920 births 2009 deaths American football halfbacks Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers football players New York Yankees (AAFC) players Philadelphia Eagles players Texas Longhorns football players People from Temple, Texas Players of American football from Texas {{runningback-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Foxx
Robert Morgan Foxx (September 15, 1917 – June 22, 1975) was an American football player. He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers football team from 1938 to 1940 and was selected by the International News Service as a second-team player on the 1940 College Football All-America Team The 1940 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1940. The nine selectors recognized by the N .... In a poll of ''Knoxville Journal'' readers, Foxx was voted Knoxville's greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century. He was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1968. He played minor league baseball in 1941. He also was hired as an assistant football coach at Tennessee in 1941. References External links * 1917 births 1975 deaths American football halfbacks Baseball outfielders Georgia Pre-Flight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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