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This military training camp team almost won a national championship
The U.S. Navy's Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks finished second in the 1943 AP rankings, with four service teams in the Top 10 amid World War II player shifts.
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This military training camp team almost won a national championship
World War II spared no one and nothing — even American football.In 1943, the AP Top 20 college football rankings were littered with the usual names — Notre Dame, Michigan, Texas. Yet hovering at the No. 2 spot is a team long-forgotten, even by most football fanatics: the U.S. Navy’s Iowa Pre-Flight team. During WWII, military training camps fielded their own teams, writes The New York Times. The war had shuttered many university programs as serv…
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