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DICK TODD Back I
Iowa Pre-Flight |
MARION ROGERS
Guard, So. Plains Army
GARRARD RAMSEY
Guard, Bainbridge
AP Features
JACK RUSSELL-End
GLENN DOBBS—Back
BOB FITCH-End
LEN ESHMONT—Back
St. Mary's Pre-Flight
BRUCE SMITH
Back
St. Mary's Pre-Flight
VINCE BANONIS £
Center - Iowa Pre-Flight
JOHN MELLUS
Tackle, Camp Davis
RAY BRAY-Taek/e
Del Monte Pre-Flight
Army, Navy Each Places Five Players
On AP’s Service All-American Squad
With the Iowa and Del Monte
Pre-Flight schools landing two
places'each, the Associated Press
Service All-America for 1943 pre-
sents an array of football talent
that includes three former memb-
ers of the college All-American
and five players who starred in
professional ranks before donn-
ing Uncle Sam’s uniform.
If there ever was a dream-team,
the one selected by the AP after
a nation-wide survey of expert
opinion forms such a combina-
tion. It includes the aces of nine
Service units from every section
of the States. Five of the play-
ers are in the Army; the same
number in the Navy, and the
eleventh is a Coast Guardsman
from the Marine base at Camp
Lejeune, N.C.
The former All-American col-
lege stars named to the Service
team are Glenn Dobbs of Ran-
dolph Field, Garrard Ramsay of
Bainbridge and Bruce Smith of
St. Mary’s Pre-Flight. They won
their first All-American honors
while playing with Tulsa U.,
William and Mary and Minnesota,
respectively.
The ex-pros named to the team
are Dick Todd, who starred for
the Washington Redskins after
leaving Texas A. and M.; Len
Eshmont, a Fordham ace before 1
moving to the new York Giants;
John Melius, who played for the
Giants after graduating from
Villanova; Vince Banonis, one of'bulwark in the Chicago Bears’
the "best centers in the National |line. Banonis played college ball
league while playing with the for the U. of Detroit and Bray
Chicago Cards, and Ray Bray, ajfor Western Michigan.
The 1943 AP Service All-America
Position Player, Team Age Height Weight Home Town, College
End ROBERT FITCH, Camp Lejeune 23 6-1 210 Minneapolis, Minnesota
x-Tackle JOHN MELLUS, Camp Davis 26 6-0 215 Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Villanova
Guard MARION ROGERS, South Plains 27 5-11 185 Plattsburg, Mo., Maryville
x-Center VINCENT BANONIS, Iowa Pre-Flight 22 6-1 220 Detroit, Detroit Univ.
Guard GARRARD RAMSEY, Bainbridge 22 6-2 195 Walland, Mich., Wm.&Mary
x-Tackle RAYMOND BRAY, Del Monte Pre-Flight 26 6-0 225 Vulcan, Mich., Western Mich.
End JACK RUSSELL, Blackland 24 6-2 215 Cleburne, Tex., Baylor
Back GLENN DOBBS, Randolph Field 23 6-4 195 Frederick, Okla., Tulsa
x-Back LEONARD ESHMONT, Del Monte Pre-Flight 26 5-11 190 Atlas, Pa., Fordham
x-Back RICHARD TODD, Iowa Pre-Flight 29 5-10 175 Crowell, Tex., Texas A. & M.
Back BRUCE SMITH, St. Mary’s Pre-Flight 23 6-0 185 Faribault, Minn., Minnesota
x—Played professional football.
SECOND TEAM
ENDS—Perry Schwartz, Iowa Pre-Flight (California) and George Poschner, Ft. Benning (Georgia).
TACKLES—Joseph Coomer, Camp Grant (Austin College) and Victor Schlcich, Sampson Naval
Training Station (Nebraska).
GUARDS—Nick Kerasiotis, Iowa Pre-Flight (Ambrose) and Joe Routt, Ft. Benning (Texas A. & M.).
CENTER—Quentin Greenough, Alameda Coast Guard (Oregon State).
BACKS—Jack Jacobs, March Field (Oklahoma)! Steve Juzwik, Great Lakes Naval Training Sta-
tion (Notre Dame); Rogers Smith, Lubbock Army Air Field (Texas Tech) and Pat Harder,
Georgia Pre-Flight (Wisconsin).
Luckman’s
Arm Clips
Redskins
Sid Luckman’s final appear-
ance in a Chicago Bear football
uniform ended a brilliant grid
career in appropriate fashion as
the former Columbia star parad-
ed his mates to a 41-21 victory
over the Washington Redskins
in the National Football League
“Cash Bowl” game Sunday.
The brilliant forward passing
ace, who enters the Merchant Ma-
rine soon, drove a Chicago crowd
of 35,000 to a frenzy as he be-
wildered the Redskins with his
bag of tricks. In all, Luckman
completed five touchdown pas-
ses.
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es and Engineer Sappers are close
behind the Blue Devils in second
place, each having won three and
lost one. But the Eagles are ex-
pected to occupy the second play-
off berth because the Sappers
still must match baskets with the
Blue Devils.
The Eagles notched their third
conquest Wednesday by trounc-
ing the Signal Giants, 40-41, while
the Navy Gobs routed the hap-
less Field Artillery Bobcats, 60-
37. Next week’s tripleheader pits
the Eagles against the Hawkey es;
the Sappers against the Gobs, and
the Devils against the Giants,
The fast-breaking Devils had
little trouble whipping the Haw-
keyes, rushing to a commanding
28-11 margin at half-time, chief-
ly by virtue of the shooting of
Stan Kreziewski,
Tourney Opens
At Keflavik
Sunday Night
The Typhoid Torpedoes and
the Rangers battled their way
into playoff berths for the cham-
pionship of the Keflavik leagues
this week and are all set to meet
in the first game of the Round
Robin tournament Sunday night.
The Torpdoes walked off with
honors in league A by defeating
the Hot Shots, 56 to 31, after
previously knocking the Sysen-
tary Dribblers out of the run-
ning. Cjarecki, ace of the win-
ners, played only half of the
game against the Hot Shots, but
registered 18 points.
The Rangers defeated the Pla-
gue Platoon 26-17 for the cham-
pionship of league B, with Hahn
scoring 11 points to show the
way. Winners in league C were
the Vitamin Pills, with seven
wins against a single loss, while
the B-25’s had their own way
in league D, capturing eight
straight. The Pills and B-25’s will
meet in the second game of the
Round Robin tourney Sunday
•evening.