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Honors
"There's a football team in Pocatello, ID, that
rates a cheer if they never win another game all season...its called the
"Pocatello Marine Devil Dogs" and is composed of 20-odd marines from a
guard detachment and a few sailors from the Naval Ordinance plant with a
coach, Corp. Ken Dolan, borrowed from an army air base...These few
marines comprise nearly half the detachment and every one is a combat
veteran recuperating from wounds and jungle diseases incurred
overseas...They lost their first two games because there weren't enough
reserves and the men weren't well enough to play a full game....Then
they turned on the Great Falls, Mont., Air Base team and won though they
were outweighed 25 pounds per man....Those guys must really like to play
football." - Lawrence Journal World - AP Story Nov 7, 1944.
All players were veterans of battles on Tarawa,
Guadalcanal, Munda, Tulagi, Bougainville, and Saipan.
Joe Wujcicki - Guard & Captain
Wes Wimberley - End
Dan Compton - Tackle
John Cousans - Center
Tommy Peterson - Guard
Dave Maxwell - Tackle
Elmer Beatty - End
Doyle Penton - Quarterback
Ray Dunkleberger - Halfback
Bill McCormick - Halfback
Walt Goldbach - Fullback
Frank Challinore - End
Bill Edwards - End
Don Signor - Center
Maurice Pitt - Tackle
Mike Sarkisian - Tackle
N. Smith - Tackle
Bill Brown - Guard
Preston Morris - Guard
Ray Mullen - End
Herman Celmer - Quarterback
Con Cooper - Quarterback
Fred Marks - Halfback
Ken Dolan - Halfback
Larry Conway - Halfback
Wally Seilheimer - Halfback
Hodgen - Fullback
Vern Hooper - End
Lew Papin - End
Noble Nussberger - Halfback
Herman Morud - Halfback
Frank Jund - Halfback
1945 Team
James Carr (NY)- End
Don Peters (KS) - End
Al Ypma (MT) - End
Frank Challinor (NY) - End
Glen Adamson (ID) - End
Stanley Michaels (IL) - End
James "Red Dog" Wallace (WA) - T
Marlow Hyatt (UT) - T
Glen Hawley (MT) - T
Lamar Lindsay (ID) - T
Bill Montgomery (MT) - T
Thomas Peterson (WI) - G
William Good (CA) - G
Herbert Conover (OH) - G
James Alt (IL) - G
John Dudenake (ID) - G
Paul Riles (AR) - C
Kenneth Nystrom (WA) - QB
John Sovero (NY) - QB
Walter Goldbach (TX) - FB
Leon Dobrzyknski (WI) - FB
Ray Dunkleberger (IL) - HB
Frank Olson (MO) - HB
Keith Cole (KS) - HB
Earl Moser (CO) - HB
Robert Sutton (WA) - HB
Bob Liday (ID) - HB
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