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This List of World War II military service football teams includes all those top-level American football teams consisting of active duty military personnel of the United States Armed Forces that played against collegiate or professional opponents during the seasons of 1942, 1943, 1944, or 1945.
The team led the nation with an average of 462.7 yards of total offense per game, including 359.8 rushing yards per game. [5] The offense was led by backs Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis . Blanchard scored 114 points in 1945 and received both the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award as the best player in college football.
Most NFL football players wanted to do their patriotic duty and serve their country, and for a man fit to play football, an IV-F classification was an embarrassment. Many men could lead normal lives and even play football, but the military had deemed them unfit; numerous NFL players in 1943 had medical problems that kept them out of the military.
The 1944 Army Cadets football team was an American football team that represented the United States Military Academy as an independent during the 1944 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Earl Blaik , the Cadets compiled a perfect 9–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 504 to 35. [ 1 ]
The football team was later organized and competed against other military teams in addition to major college teams of the period. During their three years in existence, the Cloudbusters compiled an overall record of sixteen wins, eight losses and three ties (16–8–3). [2]
The 1944 Randolph Field Ramblers football team was an American football team represented the airmen of the United States Army Air Forces stationed at Randolph Field during the 1944 college football season. Randolph Field was located about 15 miles east-northeast of San Antonio.
Fourteen died in World War II, two in the Vietnam War and one in the War in Afghanistan. In World War II, Jack Lummus and Charlie Behan were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross, respectively. All players listed below served in the United States military.
The 1945 North Camp Hood Maroons football team represented the Eleventh Headquarters of the Fourth United States Army at Camp Hood in Texas during the 1945 college football season. The Maroons compiled a record of 7–1.