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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.
Location 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 ...
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 undefeated 1945 Army team was one of the strongest of all time, as during World War II, loose player transfer rules allowed service academies to assemble many of the nation's best players. [ 12 ] Schedule
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 ...
During World War II, it was not uncommon for American military personnel to hold football games while stationed overseas in order to maintain morale. [4] For example, 1 January 1945 also saw matches in France (the Riviera Bowl in Marseille) and Britain (the Coffee Bowl in London).
During World War II, FIFA struggled to keep itself afloat, and it had no financial or personnel resources with which to plan a peacetime tournament for when hostilities ended. [19] When the war ended in 1945, it was clear that FIFA would have no hope in a single year of planning and scheduling a 1946 World Cup.
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.