The 1942 Albuquerque Army Air Base Base Flying Kellys football team, sometimes known as the Flying Colin Kellys, represented

Albuquerque Army Air Base Kirtland Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in the southeast quadrant of the Albuquerque, New Mexico urban area, adjacent to the Albuquerque International Sunport. The base was named for the early Army aviator Col. Ro ...

(Albuquerque AAB), located in

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, during the

1942 college football season The 1942 college football season was the 74th season of intercollegiate football in the United States. Competition included schools from the Big Ten Conference, the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the Big Six C ...

. The Flying Kellys compiled a 5–4 record, not including an October 30 intra-squad game in which the starters defeated the substitutes. Captain

Ted Shipkey Theodore E. Shipkey (September 28, 1904 – July 18, 1978) was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. Playing football at Stanford University from 1924 to 1926, he was a two-time and ...

(head coach at New Mexico before the war) was the head coach, and Ted Wright was the assistant coach. Wright served as acting head coach against Arizona State due to an injury to Shipkey. The team utilized the "accordion shuffle shift" offense that Shipkey had developed during his tenure as head coach with the

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. The team was named after

Colin Kelly Colin Purdie Kelly Jr. ( ; July 11, 1915 – December 10, 1941) was a World War II B-17 Flying Fortress pilot who flew bombing runs against the Japanese navy in the first days after the Pearl Harbor attack. He is remembered as one of the first ...

, an Army aviator who was killed when his

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was shot down in combat on December 10, 1941. The Air Base also adopted a New Mexico mountain burro as its mascot.

Schedule

Roster

The players included the following: * Tiny Ahlgren, guard * Roy Anderson, back, formerly of Fullerton High * Ed Beddow, center, formerly of Arizona * Red Bennett, end, formerly of Ole Miss * W.L. "Bobby" Boblett, quarterback, formerly of West Virginia Normal * Paul Bognar, guard * Dick Campbell * Church, back, formerly of California * Jack Dungan, tackle, formerly of Arizona * French Faucheau, guard * Mike Gahar, tackle * Troy "Cotton" Gann * Gardell, guard * Tony Gasparovich, tackle, formerly of Washington * Newton Goss, fullback * Reece Hill, halfback, formerly of New Mexico * Bernie "Lefty" Honan, end, formerly of Wake Forest * Harvey Johnson, halfback, formerly of Ole Miss or Mississippi State * James H. Kent, tackle, formerly of Alabama * T.E. "Tommy" Keough, halfback, formerly of Wisconsin State * Ray Kinslow, fullback, sometimes spelled as "Kenslow" * Ed Kintz, tackle, formerly of Puget Sound College * Lt. Clee Maddox, back, formerly of Indiana * Wick Malphurs * Eddie Marshall, end, formerly of Georgia * Charlie Mathis, guard * Hank Morris, center * J.O. "Bob" Nestra, halfback, formerly of Texas A&M * "Two Ton" Polk, center * Ralph R. "Robby" Robinette, tackle, formerly of Sul Ross *

, head coach, appeared in one play against Colorado Springs, at age 38, and injured a tendon in the back of his leg and was sent to El Paso for medical treatment * J.R. Shoupe, end, formerly of SMU * Vic Smith, guard, * Dick Shoupe, end, formerly of SMU * Lt. J.S. "Connie" Sparks, formerly of TCU * Cecil Szepanski * Ted Wright, assistant coach played in the Colorado Springs game on November 15 on his 32nd birthday

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