1942 Albuquerque Army Air Base Flying Kellys football team

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1942
Albuquerque Army Air Base Flying Kellys football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–4
Head coach
Home stadiumHilltop Stadium
Seasons
1942 military service football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 11 Second Air Force   –   11 – 0 – 1
No. 9 Manhattan Beach Coast Guard   –   6 – 0 – 1
No. 17 March Field   –   11 – 2 – 0
No. 3 Georgia Pre-Flight   –   7 – 1 – 1
No. 4
North Carolina Pre-Flight
   –   8 – 2 – 1
No. 6 Jacksonville NAS   –   9 – 3 – 0
No. 1 Great Lakes Navy   –   8 – 3 – 1
No. 2 Iowa Pre-Flight   –   7 – 3 – 1
No. 15 Fort Riley   –   6 – 3 – 0
No. 14 Fort Monmouth   –   5 – 2 – 2
No. 5 Saint Mary's Pre-Flight   –   6 – 3 – 1
No. T–20 Fort Douglas   –   5 – 3 – 0
No. 10 Corpus Christi NAS   –   4 – 3 – 1
No. 16 Camp Davis   –   4 – 3 – 2
Albuquerque AAB   –   5 – 4 – 0
No. 13 Lakehurst NAS   –   4 – 4 – 1
Santa Ana AAB   –   4 – 4 – 0
Will Rogers AB   –   4 – 4 – 0
No. 7 Camp Grant   –   4 – 5 – 0
No. 8 Pensacola NAS   –   3 – 5 – 1
No. T–18 Fort Totten   –   3 – 5 – 1
Camp Pickett   –   1 – 6 – 0
No. 12 Fort Knox   –   2 – 6 – 0
Alameda Coast Guard   –   1 – 7 – 1
No. T–18 Spence Field   –   0 – 4 – 0
No. T–20 Daniel Field   –   0 – 6 – 0
Rankings from AP Service Poll

The 1942 Albuquerque Army Air Base Base Flying Kellys football team, sometimes known as the Flying Colin Kellys,[1] represented Albuquerque Army Air Base (Albuquerque AAB), located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the 1942 college football season. The Flying Kellys compiled a 5–4 record, not including an October 30 intra-squad game in which the starters defeated the substitutes.[2] Captain Ted Shipkey (head coach at New Mexico before the war) was the head coach, and Ted Wright was the assistant coach.[3] Wright served as acting head coach against Arizona State due to an injury to Shipkey.[4]

The team utilized the "accordion shuffle shift" offense that Shipkey had developed during his tenure as head coach with the New Mexico Lobos.[5]

The team was named after Colin Kelly, an Army aviator who was killed when his B-17 Flying Fortress was shot down in combat on December 10, 1941.[6][7] The Air Base also adopted a New Mexico mountain burro as its mascot.[8]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 19vs. New Mexico
L 6–79,000–10,000[9][10]
September 26at New Mexico State TeachersSilver City, NMW 26–6[11][12]
October 3Lubbock Army Flying School
  • Hilltop Stadium
  • Albuquerque, NM
W 12–04,000[13][5]
October 9at West Texas State
L 13–18[14][15]
October 18at Wichita Aero CommandosWichita, KSL 3–142,000[16][17][18][19]
October 30Substitutes (intra-squad game)
  • Hilltop Stadium
  • Albuquerque, NM
W 13–0[3][20][21]
November 11at
Las Cruces, NM
W 13–0[22][23][24]
November 15Colorado Springs Army Air Base
  • Hilltop Stadium
  • Albuquerque, NM
W 32–0[25][26]
November 21at Arizona State
W 12–0[27][28][29]
November 29San Francisco
  • Hilltop Stadium
  • Albuquerque, NM
L 0–28[30][28]

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Roster

The players included the following:

  • Tiny Ahlgren, guard[32]
  • Roy Anderson, back, formerly of Fullerton High[32][33]
  • Ed Beddow, center, formerly of Arizona[9]
  • Red Bennett, end, formerly of Ole Miss[9][32]
  • W.L. "Bobby" Boblett, quarterback, formerly of West Virginia Normal[33][34][35]
  • Paul Bognar, guard[19]
  • Dick Campbell[28]
  • Church, back, formerly of California[32]
  • Jack Dungan, tackle, formerly of Arizona[9]
  • French Faucheau, guard[32]
  • Mike Gahar, tackle[32]
  • Troy "Cotton" Gann[32][36]
  • Gardell, guard[32]
  • Tony Gasparovich, tackle, formerly of Washington[37]
  • Newton Goss, fullback[19]
  • Reece Hill, halfback, formerly of New Mexico[36]
  • Bernie "Lefty" Honan, end, formerly of Wake Forest[34][38]
  • Harvey Johnson, halfback, formerly of Ole Miss[39] or Mississippi State[40]
  • James H. Kent, tackle, formerly of Alabama[37]
  • T.E. "Tommy" Keough, halfback, formerly of Wisconsin State[9][33]
  • Ray Kinslow,[34] fullback, sometimes spelled as "Kenslow"[32]
  • Ed Kintz, tackle, formerly of Puget Sound College[37]
  • Lt. Clee Maddox, back, formerly of Indiana[9][33]
  • Wick Malphurs[28]
  • Eddie Marshall, end, formerly of Georgia[28][32]
  • Charlie Mathis, guard[19]
  • Hank Morris, center[34]
  • J.O. "Bob" Nestra, halfback, formerly of Texas A&M[34]
  • "Two Ton" Polk, center[32]
  • Ralph R. "Robby" Robinette, tackle, formerly of Sul Ross[35]
  • Ted Shipkey, head coach, appeared in one play against Colorado Springs, at age 38, and injured a tendon in the back of his leg and was sent to El Paso for medical treatment[25][41]
  • J.R. Shoupe, end, formerly of SMU[42]
  • Vic Smith, guard,[32]
  • Dick Shoupe, end, formerly of SMU[9]
  • Lt. J.S. "Connie" Sparks, formerly of TCU[9][32]
  • Cecil Szepanski[28]
  • Ted Wright, assistant coach played in the Colorado Springs game on November 15 on his 32nd birthday[25]

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