Frank Michael Tritico (March 25, 1909 - March 5, 1966), sometimes listed as Frank Mitchell Tritico, was an

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coach. He was the head coach of the

Randolph Field Randolph Air Force Base was an United States Air Force base located at Universal City, Texas ( east-northeast of Downtown San Antonio). Opened in 1931, Randolph has been a flying training facility for the United States Army Air Corps, the Uni ...

football team during

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. His

1943 Randolph Field Ramblers football team The 1943 Randolph Field Ramblers football team represented the Army Air Forces' Randolph Field during the 1943 college football season. Randoph Field was located about 15 miles east-northeast of San Antonio, Texas. The team compiled a 9–1–1 r ...

compiled a 9–1–1 record, including a 7–7 tie with

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in the

1944 Cotton Bowl Classic The 1944 Cotton Bowl Classic was a postseason college football bowl game between the fourteenth ranked 1943 Texas Longhorns football team, Texas Longhorns and the Randolph Field Ramblers, a military institution squad from San Antonio, TX. Backgro ...

. The 1944 team compiled a perfect 12–0 record, outscored opponents by a total of 408 to 19, and was ranked No. 3 in the final AP poll. Prior to World War II, Tritico coached high school football for LaGrange High School in

Lake Charles, Louisiana Lake Charles (French: ''Lac Charles'') is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu ...

. He later owned the Tritico Mattress Factory in Lake Charles. He died of a heart attack in 1966 at Lake Charles.

Head coaching record

College

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tritico, Frank 1909 births 1966 deaths Randolph Field Ramblers football coaches High school football coaches in Louisiana People from Lake Charles, Louisiana