1944 San Diego Naval Training Station Bluejackets football
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Record4–3–1
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Home stadiumHull Field
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1944 military service football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 3 Randolph Field   –   11 – 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
Hondo AAF   –   7 – 1 – 0
Bunker Hill NAS   –   6 – 1 – 0
Lincoln AAF   –   6 – 1 – 0
Blackland AAF   –   7 – 1 – 1
Keesler Field   –   8 – 1 – 2
No. 17 Great Lakes Navy   –   9 – 2 – 1
No. 10 March Field   –   7 – 2 – 2
Third Air Force   –   8 – 3 – 0
North Carolina Pre-Flight   –   6 – 2 – 1
Atlantic City NAS   –   5 – 2 – 0
Camp Peary   –   5 – 2 – 0
Tonopah AAF   –   5 – 2 – 0
Daniel Field   –   7 – 3 – 0
No. 20 Second Air Force   –   10 – 4 – 1
San Francisco Coast Guard   –   4 – 2 – 1
Ellington Field   –   6 – 3 – 2
Amarillo AAF   –   5 – 3 – 0
Alameda Coast Guard   –   4 – 2 – 2
Coronado Amphibious   –   2 – 1 – 1
Olathe NAS   –   4 – 2 – 2
Selman Field   –   4 – 2 – 2
Galveston AAF   –   5 – 3 – 2
Fleet City   –   6 – 4 – 1
Jacksonville NAS   –   4 – 3 – 0
San Diego NTS   –   4 – 3 – 1
Camp Beale   –   5 – 4 – 0
Lubbock AAF   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fort Warren   –   5 – 4 – 1
Fort Monroe   –   5 – 5 – 0
Klamath Falls Marines   –   2 – 2 – 1
Maxwell Field   –   5 – 5 – 0
Minter Field   –   3 – 3 – 0
No. 19 Saint Mary's Pre-Flight   –   4 – 4 – 0
Fourth Infantry   –   3 – 4 – 2
Georgia Pre-Flight   –   4 – 5 – 0
Third Infantry   –   4 – 5 – 0
Bergstrom Field   –   3 – 4 – 0
Ottumwa NAS   –   3 – 4 – 0
Camp Lee   –   3 – 5 – 0
Cherry Point Marines   –   3 – 6 – 0
Chatham Field   –   2 – 8 – 1
Sampton NTS   –   2 – 7 – 0
Miami NTC   –   2 – 8 – 0
Bryan AAF   –   1 – 7 – 0
Fairfield-Suisun AAB   –   1 – 7 – 0
Richmond AAB   –   0 – 10 – 1
Camp Ellis   –   0 – 5 – 0
South Plains AAF   –   0 – 8 – 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 (San Diego NTS) 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]

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, San Diego NTS ranked 49th among the nation's college and service teams and tenth out of 28 United States Marine Corps teams with a rating of 88.3.[2][3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 231005th Army Engineers (Wilmington)
W 65–0[4]
October 1Compton
  • Hull Field
  • San Diego, CA
W 85–0[5]
October 7UCLA
  • Hull Field
  • San Diego, CA
W 14–125,000[6]
October 15El Toro Marines
  • Hull Field
  • San Diego, CA
L 0–6[7]
October 22Fort MacArthur
  • Hull Field
  • San Diego, CA
W 69–0[8]
October 29Coronado Amphibious Training Center
  • Hull Field
  • San Diego, CA
T 0–0[9]
November 4at USC
L 21–2828,000[10]
November 19at March Field
  • Hull Field
  • San Diego. CA
L 0–75,500[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Few Vets On Squad". San Francisco Examiner. Associated Press. September 18, 1944. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Litkenhous, E. E. (December 10, 1944). "Big Ten Circuit Repeats As King of College Leagues". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City Utah. p. 8B. Retrieved April 9, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ Litkenhous, E. E. (December 17, 1944). "Army, Randolph Field One-Two in Final Litkenhouse Ratings". Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. p. 4, section 2. Retrieved April 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "San Diego Navy Wallops Engineers". San Bernardino County Sun. September 24, 1944. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Sailors Sink Tartars, 85-0". Long Beach Sun. October 2, 1944. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Wolf, Al (October 8, 1944). "Bluejackets shade bruins". Los Angeles Times.
  7. ^ "Marines Edge San Diego Navy By Touchdown". The San Bernardino County Sun. October 16, 1944. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "SDN". The Los Angeles Times. October 22, 1944. p. 22.
  9. ^ "San Diego Navy Held To Tie by Underdogs". San Bernardino County Sun. October 30, 1944. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Braven Dyer (October 29, 1944). "Trojans in Romp Over Beardless Gaels, 34-7". Los Angeles Times. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "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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