The North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters represented the U.S. Navy pre-flight school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the college...
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Bear Bryant (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football coaches)
recruits and coach the North Carolina Navy Pre-Flight football team. One of the players he coached for the Navy was the future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback...
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Jim Crowley (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football coaches)
In 1942, he served as the head coach for the North Carolina Pre-Flight School team and led the Cloudbusters to an overall record of 8–2–1. In late 1944...
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Otto Graham (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football players)
basketball for Colgate before moving to North Carolina Pre-Flight later in 1944, where he played on the Cloudbusters football team under coaches Glenn Killinger...
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years. He had been an assistant coach of the 1944 North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football team and was scheduled to be the team's head coach...
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Johnny Vaught (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football coaches)
1941. In 1942, Vaught served as an assistant coach with the North Carolina Pre-Flight School. After serving in World War II as a lieutenant commander in...
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Sandy Sanford (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football players)
American football player and coach. He was selected in the 15th round of the 1940 NFL draft. He played professionally as an end in the National Football League...
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Glenn Presnell (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football coaches)
coach at the North Carolina Pre-Flight School. He spent three years in the Navy. In 1954, Presnell returned to coaching as the head football coach for Eastern...
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The 1943 Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers football team represented the United States Navy pre-flight aviation training school at the University of Georgia...
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Charles R. Soleau (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football coaches)
served as an assistant coach for the North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters. He was later named the head college football coach for the Franklin & Marshall...
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The 1944 Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers football team represented the United States Navy pre-flight aviation training school at the University of Georgia...
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was assigned to the North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football team. After the war, Connolly played in the All-America Football Conference for the...
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Len Eshmont (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football players)
1957) was an American professional football halfback and safety for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL) and the San Francisco 49ers...
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Frank Aschenbrenner (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football players)
While training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1944, Aschenbrenner also played football there. In 1945, he played for the service...
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Clark Jarnagin (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football coaches)
1914 – October 19, 1979) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the interim head football coach at Hardin–Simmons University during...
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Tippy Dye (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football players)
As an athletic director, Dye helped build the University of Nebraska football dynasty in the 1960s. Born in Harrisonville, Ohio, Dye enrolled at Ohio...
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Spec Sanders (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football players)
in the United States Navy for two years before playing football for North Carolina Pre-Flight. After the war ended, he went back to Texas to finish his...
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Stan Kozlowski (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football players)
1972) was an American football fullback in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) for the Miami Seahawks. He played college football at the University...
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Kimbrough served as the head coach for the North Carolina Pre-Flight School team in 1943 and led the Cloudbusters to an overall record of 2–4–1. He was immediately...
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Joe Zabilski (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football players)
States Navy. While in the service, he played on the North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football team in 1942 coached by Jim Crowley. In 1946, Zabilski...
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Red Smith (coach) (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football coaches)
and Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina from 1948 to 1949, compiling a career college football coaching record of 15–28–1. Smith was also...
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1919 — August 29, 1995) was a professional American football defensive back in the National Football League (NFL). He played two seasons for the Pittsburgh...
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Glenn Killinger (redirect from Glenn Killinger (football coach))
(1934–1941, 1945–1959), and with the North Carolina Pre-Flight School (1944), compiling a career college football head coaching record of 176–72–16. He...
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Richard S. Lyon (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football players)
two-and-a-half years. He also played football as an end on the North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football team that also included Otto Graham, Spec...
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2023 – via Newspapers.com . "Cloudbusters Squeeze Out 14-13 Win Over Fliers". The Durham Herald-Sun. Durham, North Carolina. October 29, 1944. p. 9, section...
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Associated Press. November 7, 1943. p. 14. Retrieved April 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com . "Camp Lejeune Meets Cloudbusters Today"...
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April 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com . "Navy To Open Grid Season With Cloudbusters Today". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. September 30, 1944. p...
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John Roning (category North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football coaches)
football coach at Gustavus Adolphus College in 1939. He left in 1942 to return to Minnesota as an assistant and then was at North Carolina Pre-Flight...
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April 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com . "Navy To Open Grid Season With Cloudbusters Today". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. September 30, 1944. p...
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