“I remember my mother and I had dinner together at a swanky restaurant,” Gillooly said. Coach John “Billick” Whelchel took the entire Navy team to New York City to celebrate that night with the players staying at the ritzy Waldorf-Astoria. It was the final game of Gillooly’s college football career and his mother traveled from West Virginia to West Point to attend. Gillooly was not fooled by a double reverse, stayed home at his left tackle spot then rushed forward and tackled Davis before he could get out of his own backfield. Davis played varsity as a plebe that year because NCAA rules banning freshmen from doing so were relaxed for the war. Gillooly’s favorite memory of that game is throwing Army fullback Glenn Davis for a big loss. Jack Gillooly, the oldest living Navy football player (Courtesy Photo) Their offense couldn’t do anything against us,” Gillooly recalled. “We were clearly the better team and ran up and down the field on them. Navy once again dominated on both sides of the ball in beating Army, 13-0, to finish with an 8-1 record. were some of the standout members of the 1943 Navy team, which was ranked fourth in the final Associated Press poll.Īl Channel was captain of the squad while other standout players were Roe Johnson, Jack Martin and Ben Martin. Quarterback Harold “Hal” Hamberg, blocking back Wayne “Stu” Nelson and lineman George Brown Jr. I wound up playing the rest of the game,” said Gillooly, a two-way tackle who was 6-foot-2 and 190 pounds in his prime. “The guy who started in my place got knocked out right away.
He came back in time to participate in one practice before the Army game.
Gillooly had gotten hurt two weeks earlier when Navy beat Columbia at Yankee Stadium in New York City. That 10-mile rule remained in place for the 1943 meeting at West Point, which attracted 15,000 fans. Copyright Notice: OtherFolder Description: Army NavyFolder Extended Description: 332-88 | Football 1943Title: ARMY-NAVY FOOTBALL GAME 1943Subject: ARMY-NAVY FOOTBALL GAME 1943 (Check with Baltimore Sun Photo)
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