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The 1944 El Toro Flying Marines football team represented the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station during the
1944 college football season The 1944 college football season was the 76th 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 Co ...
. The station was located in
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, near the town of El Toro (later renamed Lake Forest). The team compiled an 8–1 record and was ranked No. 16 in the final AP Poll. Lt. Col. Dick Hanley was the team's head coach.
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and Jim Tuttle were assistant coaches. In the final
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, El Toro ranked 23rd among the nation's college and service teams and first out of six
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teams with a rating of 100.0.


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El Toro Flying Marines football Marine Corps Air Station El Toro was a United States Marine Corps Air Station located next to the community of El Toro, near Irvine, California. Before it was decommissioned in 1999, it was the home of Marine Corps Aviation on the West Coast. ...