1942 Albuquerque Army Air Base Flying Kellys football team

The 1942 Albuquerque Army Air Base Base Flying Kellys football team, sometimes known as the Flying Colin Kellys,^[1] represented Albuquerque Army Air Base (Albuquerque AAB), located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the 1942 college football season. The Flying Kellys compiled a 5–4 record, not including an October 30 intra-squad game in which the starters defeated the substitutes.^[2] Captain Ted Shipkey (head coach at New Mexico before the war) was the head coach, and Ted Wright was the assistant coach.^[3] Wright served as acting head coach against Arizona State due to an injury to Shipkey.^[4]

1942 Albuquerque Army Air Base Flying Kellys football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–4
Head coach	Ted Shipkey (1st season)
Home stadium	Hilltop Stadium
Seasons 1943 →

1942 military service football records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 11 Second Air Force			–					11	–	0	–	1
No. 9 Manhattan Beach Coast Guard			–					6	–	0	–	1
No. 17 March Field			–					11	–	2	–	0
No. 3 Georgia Pre-Flight			–					7	–	1	–	1
No. 4 North Carolina Pre-Flight			–					8	–	2	–	1
No. 6 Jacksonville NAS			–					9	–	3	–	0
No. 1 Great Lakes Navy			–					8	–	3	–	1
No. 2 Iowa Pre-Flight			–					7	–	3	–	1
No. 15 Fort Riley			–					6	–	3	–	0
No. 14 Fort Monmouth			–					5	–	2	–	2
No. 5 Saint Mary's Pre-Flight			–					6	–	3	–	1
No. T–20 Fort Douglas			–					5	–	3	–	0
No. 10 Corpus Christi NAS			–					4	–	3	–	1
No. 16 Camp Davis			–					4	–	3	–	2
Albuquerque AAB			–					5	–	4	–	0
No. 13 Lakehurst NAS			–					4	–	4	–	1
Santa Ana AAB			–					4	–	4	–	0
Will Rogers AB			–					4	–	4	–	0
No. 7 Camp Grant			–					4	–	5	–	0
No. 8 Pensacola NAS			–					3	–	5	–	1
No. T–18 Fort Totten			–					3	–	5	–	1
Camp Pickett			–					1	–	6	–	0
No. 12 Fort Knox			–					2	–	6	–	0
Alameda Coast Guard			–					1	–	7	–	1
No. T–18 Spence Field			–					0	–	4	–	0
No. T–20 Daniel Field			–					0	–	6	–	0
Rankings from AP Service Poll

The team utilized the "accordion shuffle shift" offense that Shipkey had developed during his tenure as head coach with the New Mexico Lobos.^[5]

The team was named after Colin Kelly, an Army aviator who was killed when his B-17 Flying Fortress was shot down in combat on December 10, 1941.^[6][7] The Air Base also adopted a New Mexico mountain burro as its mascot.^[8]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 19	8:00 p.m.	vs. New Mexico	Hilltop Stadium Albuquerque, NM	L 6–7	9,000–10,000	[9][10]
September 26		at Silver City Teachers	Silver City, NM	W 26–6		[11][12]
October 3		Lubbock Army Flying School	Hilltop Stadium Albuquerque, NM	W 12–0	4,000	[13][5]
October 9		at West Texas State	Buffalo Stadium Canyon, TX	L 13–18		[14][15]
October 18		at Wichita Aero Commandos	Wichita, KS	L 3–14	2,000	[16][17][18][19]
October 30		Substitutes (intra-squad game)	Hilltop Stadium Albuquerque, NM	W 13–0		[3][20][21]
November 11		at New Mexico A&M	Quesenberry Field Las Cruces, NM	W 13–0		[22][23][24]
November 15		Colorado Springs Army Air Base	Hilltop Stadium Albuquerque, NM	W 32–0		[25][26]
November 21		at Arizona State	Goodwin Stadium Tempe, AZ	W 12–0		[27][28][29]
November 29		San Francisco	Hilltop Stadium Albuquerque, NM	L 0–28		[30][28]
All times are in Mountain time

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Roster

The players included the following:

• Tiny Ahlgren, guard^[32]
• Roy Anderson, back, formerly of Fullerton High^[32][33]
• Ed Beddow, center, formerly of Arizona^[10]
• Red Bennett, end, formerly of Ole Miss^[10][32]
• W.L. "Bobby" Boblett, quarterback, formerly of West Virginia Normal^[33][34][35]
• Paul Bognar, guard^[19]
• Dick Campbell^[28]
• Church, back, formerly of California^[32]
• Jack Dungan, tackle, formerly of Arizona^[10]
• French Faucheau, guard^[32]
• Mike Gahar, tackle^[32]
• Troy "Cotton" Gann^[32][36]
• Gardell, guard^[32]
• Tony Gasparovich, tackle, formerly of Washington^[37]
• Newton Goss, fullback^[19]
• Reece Hill, halfback, formerly of New Mexico^[36]
• Bernie "Lefty" Honan, end, formerly of Wake Forest^[34][38]
• Harvey Johnson, halfback, formerly of Ole Miss^[39] or Mississippi State^[40]
• James H. Kent, tackle, formerly of Alabama^[37]
• T.E. "Tommy" Keough, halfback, formerly of Wisconsin State^[10][33]
• Ray Kinslow,^[34] fullback, sometimes spelled as "Kenslow"^[32]
• Ed Kintz, tackle, formerly of Puget Sound College^[37]
• Lt. Clee Maddox, back, formerly of Indiana^[10][33]
• Wick Malphurs^[28]
• Eddie Marshall, end, formerly of Georgia^[28][32]
• Charlie Mathis, guard^[19]
• Hank Morris, center^[34]
• J.O. "Bob" Nestra, halfback, formerly of Texas A&M^[34]
• "Two Ton" Polk, center^[32]
• Ralph R. "Robby" Robinette, tackle, formerly of Sul Ross^[35]
• Ted Shipkey, head coach, appeared in one play against Colorado Springs, at age 38, and injured a tendon in the back of his leg and was sent to El Paso for medical treatment^[25][41]
• J.R. Shoupe, end, formerly of SMU^[42]
• Vic Smith, guard,^[32]
• Dick Shoupe, end, formerly of SMU^[10]
• Lt. J.S. "Connie" Sparks, formerly of TCU^[10][32]
• Cecil Szepanski^[28]
• Ted Wright, assistant coach played in the Colorado Springs game on November 15 on his 32nd birthday^[25]