1943 Memphis Naval Air Technical Training Center Bluejackets football team
1943 Memphis Naval Air Technical Training Center Bluejackets football | |
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Conference | Independent |
Record | 2–0 |
Head coach |
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Captain | Frank Filchock |
Home stadium | Crump Stadium |
The 1943 Memphis Naval Air Technical Training Center Bluejackets football team represented the United States Navy's Memphis Naval Air Technical Training Center (Memphis NAATC), located in Millington, Tennessee during the 1943 college football season. After starting with a 2–0 record, the rest of the Memphis NAATC's games were abruptly cancelled on October 10, 1943 when the Navy ruled that the NAS could not play at Crump Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, and so no longer had an adequate playing field to conduct the remainder of their contests. The team was ranked in the first three AP Polls of the 1943 season, but was eventually dropped from the rankings on October 25, 1943.[1]
In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Memphis NAATC ranked tenth among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 108.3.[2]
Schedule
[edit]Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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September 26 | Rosecrans Army Fliers |
| W 57–0 | [3][4] | ||
October 2 | Tulane | W 41–7 | 25,000 | [5] | ||
October 9 | SMU | No. 13 | cancelled | [6] | ||
October 16 | at LSU | No. 15 | Cancelled | |||
October 23 | Arkansas | No. 19 | Memphis, TN | Cancelled | ||
October 30 | at Miami (OH) | Cancelled | ||||
November 6 | at Texas | Cancelled | ||||
Marquette |
| Cancelled | ||||
Fort Benning |
| Cancelled | ||||
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Rankings
[edit]Week | |||||||||
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Poll | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
AP | 13 | 15 | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
References
[edit]- ^ "Memphis Naval Football Schedule Cancelled". Daily World. October 10, 1943. p. 10. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
- ^ Litkenhous, E. E. (December 17, 1943). "Litkenhouse Selects U. S. Grid Leaders". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 18. Retrieved April 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
- ^ "Memphis Team Has Brilliant 57-0 Grid Debut". Kingsport Times. September 28, 1943. p. 2. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
- ^ "Memphis Navy Victor, 57 to 0". Chattanooga Daily Times. September 27, 1943. p. 9. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
- ^ "Tulane's Green Wave Unable To Handle Memphis' Powerful Sailors, Lose 41-7". Johnson City Press. October 3, 1943. p. 9. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
- ^ "Lorena Grid Star Killed in Crash". Waco Sunday Tribune-Herald. Waco, Texas. October 10, 1943. p. 8. Retrieved April 26, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
- ^ Daye, John (2014). Encyclopedia of Armed Forces Football. Haworth, New Jersey: St. Johann Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-1-937943-21-9.