Stationed to protect the Boeing aircraft manufacturing facility as an anti-aircraft battalion, the 206th, many Junior College champions the year prior, ran roughshod through the military squads of the Northwest.

Aubrey "Cob" Fowler scored four touchdowns on November 24th on dashes of 23, 69, 5 and 16 to lead the 58-0 rout of the 103rd Anti-Tank Battalion.  Fowler, the 155-pounder was the leading scoring machine in the Northwest in 1941 along with kicking field goals.  His recorded scores on the season were 11 rushing touchdowns, 2 passing touchdowns, a punt return touchdown and kicking two point after trys while also handling punting duties for the Travelers.  Fowler would be crowned the Northwest Player of the Year.
 
From Ellensburg Daily Record, Dec 11, 1941:
 
"In 1939 most of the "Travelers" were attending Arkansas schools.  Came the emergency and 17 members of the tech football team, all national guardsmen, were called to the colors.  By 1941 there were 21 from Arkansas Tech, two from the University of Arkansas, two from Arkansas high schools and one from Arkansas State who are included on the squad.

It was a new group, without funds, and civic organization who finally scraped up some discarded uniforms for the team, which immediately was dubbed the "Arkansas Travelers".  Much to everybody's surprise, they swept and razzle-dazzled through eight service teams, rolling up 279 points to 6 with a light squad weighing 191 in the line and 171 in the backfield.

Just a week before their big game with Moffett, war broke out.  The generals said the game was "still on". But the Ack-Acks had work to do, too-work more grim than playing football.
The long haired, drawling Ozarkians, were hustled here by army truck to the big Boeing aircraft factory.  There they set up their anti-aircraft guns.

After putting in long hours, they repair to a nearby playfield to polish up their football attack.  Then after a couple of hours of scrimmage, they turn in for some sleep before returning to their vigil with their long nosed guns."

After rolling to a 7-0 record, expectations were the Travelers would face the Paine Field Flyers in a playoff.  But the Flyers 3-1-1 with a loss and a tie to the Northwest League Semi-Pro League Fort Lewis 41st Division would not get the game as the Defense Athletic Committee civilian sports group called off the game in favor of bringing the California champion Moffett Field Flyers.  The Moffetts won seven of eight games, losing only to St. Mary's 6-0.  They scored 140 points and gave up 45.  The Travlers soundly defeated the 41st in their only meeting 14-0.  Moffett landed their team in Seattle only to have the attack on Pearl Harbor scuttle the game.  The championship game was canceled by Lt. General John L. DeWitt of San Francisco, commander of the West Coast military forces.

Aubrey Fowler later transitioned to the Army Air Corps flying 33 missions as a B-17 bombardier.  He returned to Arkansas Tech in 1945 leading "Wonder Boys" to the AIC championship scoring 102 points.  Fowler played for the University of Arkansas in 1946 leading the team in passing, scoring, punting and punt returns enroute to the Cotton Bowl against LSU.  He again led the Razorbacks in punting and punt returns in 1947 and defeating William & Mary in the Dixie Bowl.  Fowler was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles but chose to sign with the Baltimore Colts in 1948 where he was third on the team for interceptions in his one season of pro football in the All-American Football Conference.

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