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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 Scottish Football League and Scottish Cup were suspended in 1939, with unofficial regional competitions replacing them. These were dominated by Rangers, who won the 1939–40 Scottish War Emergency League and all of the six Southern League tournaments played, plus four of six Southern League Cups, the one-off Scottish War Emergency Cup in 1940, one of five Summer Cups and the one-off ...
The one-platoon system, also known as "iron man football", is a rule-driven substitution pattern in American football whereby the same players were expected to stay on the field for the entire game, playing both offense and defense as required. Players removed for a substitute were lost to their teams for the duration of the half (until 1932 ...
26 August: French Division 1 football is resumed for the first time since 1938–39. Germany. There is no major football in Germany due to World War II and the Allied occupation. Portugal. Primeira Liga won by S.L. Benfica. Spain. La Liga won by Barcelona. Italy. Serie A – not contested due to World War II. Yugoslavia (Serbia)
The first known use of the "two-platoon" system was by Michigan head coach Fritz Crisler in 1945 against an Army team under head coach "Colonel" Earl "Red" Blaik. Michigan lost the game, 28–7, but Crisler's use of eight players who played only on offense, eight who played only on defense, and three that played both, impressed Blaik enough for ...
The Football League teams had each played two to three League matches per division, including a full matchday for the First Division on 2 September 1939. [1] After the suspension of football, friendlies were quickly set up between regional teams.
Winning team Losing team Final score Attendance Game November 21, 1942 Larne, Northern Ireland: Yarvard Hale 9–7 10,000 Held at Ravenhill Stadium, the team names were parodies of the college football schools Harvard and Yale. Ticket sales went to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and SSAFA. [1] November 21, 1942 Belfast, Northern Ireland ...
The prospect of a unified Pittsburgh-Philadelphia team actually predated World War II by several years. The Pennsylvania Keystoners were a team that was proposed in 1939, conceived with the intention of the Steelers and Eagles owners buying into one of the two teams, then spinning the other off to an ownership group in Boston, Massachusetts.