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  Fort Lewis 41st Division (1941)

 

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Fort Lewis Football League (1941)

 

 

 

 

 

Team Headquarters:  Fort Lewis, WA

Owner: United States Army

 

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Coaches:  Lt. Loren W. Tuttle (HC); Lt. John Hackenbruck (Asst), Pvt McConnaughey

 

 

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1941 Players:

Joe Lyman, Pvt McConnaughey (Detroit Lions)

 

 

AP Reprint:

RADIO INTO FOOTBALL

Lawrence Journal-World - Oct 9, 1941

 

Army's 41st Division Coaches to Use "Walkie?Talkies"

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"Calling Coach Tuttle!  Calling Coach Tuttle!  Pull Hank Smith out of left guard!  He's been letting too many men thru!  That is all."

 

The army's new technique in radio communications has reached the football field and if the idea spreads, you can be on the lookout for plenty of complications.

The experiment is to be made Sunday, for the first time on any gridiron, when coaches of the army's 41st division football team try out two "walkie-talkie" radio sets during a game between the soldiers and the Boeing Aircraft team of Seattle.

The plan is this:  Lieut. Loren W. Tuttle, head coach, will pace up and down the side lines with a walkie-talkie strapped to his back.  Assistant Coach John Hackenbruck will perch on the roof of the press box with another portable set.

From his vantage point Hackenbruck, former Oregon State and Detroit Lions star, will try to spot plays and openings not discernible to Tuttle down on the field.

Coaches Tuttle and Hackenbruck will have no difficulty procuring the necessary equipment, seeing as how the 41st division uses 100 or more of the portable sets on field maneuvers.  The two way voice sets weigh about 20 pounds and hang on the back like a knapsack.

Football authorities were approached on the legality of the idea.  They haven't as yet, been able to find any rules covering suck activities by coaches and assistant coaches - so long as they don't talk by radio to the players on the field.

 

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Kicking off the 1942 season against the College of Puget Sound, Fort Lewis boasted the heaviest center in the area in Private Vaughn Weber.  The 270-pounder played 3 seasons at Western Washington College and was coach at Tenino High School for the 2 years prior to enlisting in the army in September.  Lt. Col. James A. Lybecker, a halfback with the 91st Division Rose Bowl team of 1917 opened the ceremonies to kick off the game.  Fort Lewis was no match for the Loggers, falling 34-0.  The team was occassionally referred to as "Powder River" in reference to the 91st Division battle cry in World War I: "Powder River - let 'er buck! - Ninety-first!"  The roots coming from the Wyoming national guardsmen called up to Fort Lewis (Camp Lewis) during the Spanish-American War and World War I.

1941 Schedule/Results (0-3-1):

 
 - West Seattle Yellowjackets  0-7
Oct 4 @ Vancouver Grizzlies 0-7
Oct 12 - Boeing Aero Mechanics 2-10
Oct 19 - Paine Field Flyers 0-0
Nov 2 @ West Seattle Yellowjackets 13-37
   
1942 Schedule/Results (0-1):  
Oct 3 - College of Puget Sound 0-34
   
Nov 21 - St. Martin's College 0-25
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

 

   
   
   
   

 

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