1917 Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets football team

1917 Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets football
Conference Independent
1917 record 4–3
Head coach Lt. E. D. Angell

The 1917 Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets football team represented the Great Lakes Naval Station, the United States Navy's boot camp located near North Chicago, Illinois, during the 1917 college football season. Led by head coach, Lieutenant E. D. Angell, the team compiled a 4–3 record.

Several former Michigan Wolverines played for the Great Lakes team, including fullback Cedric "Pat" Smith, guards Albert Benbrook and Alvin Loucks, and halfback Philip Raymond.[1] Minnesota native Hal Erickson also starred at halfback for Great Lakes.[2]

John Phillip Sousa was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Navy in 1917 and assigned to the Great Lakes Naval Station where he led the Great Lakes Band. Prior to kickoff of the Thanksgiving Day game at Stagg Field, Sousa led the band of 400 men in renditions of Sousa's "El Capitan" march and "The Star-Spangled Banner". At halftime, the band followed with "America, Here's My Boy" and "Joan of Arc". When the crowd called out for "Over There", the band complied, and the Great Lakes sailors responded with a snake dance on the field. At the end of the game, a 27-0 victory for Great Lakes, the band played "Chopin's Funeral March" for the Fort Sheridan team.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29at MarquetteMilwaukeeL 7–14[3]
October 20vs. Camp Custer
L 0–7[4][5]
October 25Haskell
W 20–1610,000[6]
November 3at Iowa
W 23–14[7]
November 17at Camp Grant
W 9–6[8]
November 24vs. Camp Funston
L 0–715,000[9]
November 29vs. Fort Sheridan
W 27–010,00[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 E. O. Phillips (November 30, 1917). "Army Eleven Repulsed by Jackies, 27-0". Chicago Tribune. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 Walter Eckersall (November 30, 1917). "Pat Smith and Erickson Star in Jackies' Victory". Chicago Tribune. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Jackies Beaten by Marquette". Chicago Tribune. September 30, 1917. p. II-2 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Camp Custer Eleven Defeats Jackies, 7-0". Chicago Tribune. October 21, 1917. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Army Beats Navy Eleven in Fine Game". Detroit Free Press. October 21, 1917. pp. 19, 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Walter Eckersall (October 26, 1917). "Great Lakes Eleven Beats Haskell, 20-16, in Warm Grid Battle". Chicago Tribune. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Great Lakes Eleven Comes From Behind, Beating Iowa, 23-14". Chicago Tribune. November 4, 1917. p. II-2 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ Parke Brown (November 18, 1917). "Jackies Defeat Camp Grant Men on Gridiron, 9-6". Chicago Tribune. p. II-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Funston Beats Great Lakes, 7-0, in Great Scrap". Chicago Tribune. November 25, 1917. p. II-3 – via Newspapers.com.
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