1942 Idaho Vandals football team
American college football season
1942 Idaho Vandals football | |
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Conference | Pacific Coast Conference |
Record | 3–7 (1–5 PCC) |
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Home stadium | Neale Stadium |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||
No. 13 UCLA $ | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||
Washington State | 5 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 2 | – | 2 | ||
No. 12 Stanford | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||
USC | 4 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||
Oregon State | 4 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||
Washington | 3 | – | 3 | – | 2 | 4 | – | 3 | – | 3 | ||
California | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||
Oregon | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||
Idaho | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||
Montana | 0 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||
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The 1942 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1942 college football season . The Vandals were led by second-year head coach Francis Schmidt and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference .
Idaho was ranked at No. 147 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942. [1]
Home games were played on campus in Moscow at Neale Stadium , with one game in Boise at Public School Field , the last in southern Idaho for five years .
Schmidt, age 56, was a longtime college football head coach, most recently in the Big Ten Conference at Ohio State University ( 1934 – 1940 ), where he was succeeded by a 32-year-old high school coach named Paul Brown .
Shortly before the start of the 1943 season, the Idaho football program (with Washington State and Oregon State ) went on hiatus due to World War II ; [2] [3] two seasons were missed and Vandal football returned in 1945 .
Season
The Vandals were 3–7 overall in 1942 and 1–5 in conference play.
Prior to their second-ever night game, played at Gonzaga Stadium in Spokane against the Second Air Force on October 3, the Vandals practiced under the lights in Moscow with white and yellow footballs. [4] They had won their first the previous year over Gonzaga , [5] [6] but lost to the military team, 14–0. [7] [8]
In the Battle of the Palouse with neighbor Washington State , the Vandals suffered a fifteenth straight loss, falling 7–0 on a soggy field at Neale Stadium in Moscow on November 14. [9] [10] Idaho's most recent win in the series was a 17 years earlier in 1925 and the next was a dozen years away, in 1954.
Two weeks earlier on Halloween , Idaho broke a rare three-game losing streak to Montana in the rivalry game for the Little Brown Stein with a 21-point shutout at Missoula . [11] [12] The Vandals turned the tables on the Griz, who had shut out Idaho the previous year in Moscow. When Montana was a member of the PCC (through 1949 ), the loser of the game was frequently last in the conference standings.
The final game was in Los Angeles on December 5, a 40–13 loss to the UCLA Bruins , the conference champions who were Rose Bowl -bound. [13] [14]
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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September 26 |
Oregon State
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L 0–32 | 7,000 | [15] | |
October 3 | vs. Second Air Force * | L 0–14 | 7,000 | [16] [7] [8] | |
October 9 | at Eastern Washington * | Cheney , WA | W 28–7 | 2,500 | [17] [18] |
October 17 | at Stanford | L 7–54 | 5,000 | [19] | |
October 24 | at Oregon | L 0–28 | 4,000 | [20] [21] | |
October 31 | at Montana | W 21–0 | 2,000 | [11] [12] | |
November 14 | Washington State |
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L 0–7 | 5,000 | [9] [10] |
November 21 | Portland * |
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W 20–14 | 6,000 | [22] |
November 26 | at Utah * | L 7–13 | 12,500 | [23] | |
December 5 | at UCLA | L 13–40 | 25,000 | [13] [14] | |
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One game was played on Friday (Eastern Washington at Cheney)
and one on Thursday (Utah at Salt Lake City on Thanksgiving ) - One game was played at night (Second Air Force at Spokane )
All-conference
NFL draft
Three Vandal seniors were selected in the 1943 NFL draft , which lasted 32 rounds (300 selections).
Player | Position | Round | Overall | Franchise |
Veto Berllus | End | 20th | 186 | New York Giants |
Irv Konopka | Tackle | 26th | 241 | Detroit Lions |
Pete Hecomovich | Back | 30th | 284 | Chicago Cardinal |
After the season
Like many colleges, the football program at Idaho was stopped during the war due to manpower shortages, made official in late September 1943. [2] [3] Schmidt continued to reside in Moscow, but his health began to fail in the spring of 1944. He spent his last three weeks at St. Luke's Hospital in Spokane, Washington , where he died on September 19 at age 58. [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]
UI alumnus and assistant coach James "Babe" Brown , the acting athletic director and head basketball coach, became the interim head football coach for 1945 and the head coach in 1946 . [33]
References
- ↑ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 16, 1942). "Litkenhous Rates Georgia No. 1, Ohio State No. 2" . Twin City Sentinel . p. 10 – via Newspapers.com .
- 1 2 "Idaho, Washington State, and O.S.C. withdraw from Northern Division football loop" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. September 24, 1943. p. 8.
- 1 2 Ashlock, Herb (September 24, 1943). "Hollingbery to stay "at present salary," but Schmidt's status not revealed" . Spokane Daily Chronicle . (Washington). p. 9.
- ↑ "Vandals drill under lights" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. October 1, 1942. p. 8.
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Stark, Charles R., Jr. (October 11, 1941).
"Idaho outplays Gonzaga before 8000 fans and wins football game"
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Spokesman-Review
. Spokane, Washington). p.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link ) - ↑ Ashlock, Herb (October 11, 1941). "Schmidt's improving Idaho eleven defeats Gonzaga, 21-7" . Spokane Daily Chronicle . (Washington). p. 9.
- 1 2 "Pullman car may be Vandals' hotel, Spokane, today" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. October 3, 1942. p. 12.
- 1 2 "2nd Air Force defeats Idaho Vandals, 14-0" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. October 4, 1942. p. 12.
- 1 2 "Officials' ruling on lateral saves Cougars from Vandal tie" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. November 15, 1942. p. 11.
- 1 2 "W.S.C. - Air Force game on Saturday looms all important" . Spokane Daily Chronicle . (Washington). November 16, 1942. p. 13.
- 1 2 "Vandals aerial attack defeats Montana, 21-0" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. November 1, 1942. p. 13.
- 1 2 "Idaho puts Montana in conference cellar" . Eugene Register-Guard . United Press. November 1, 1942. p. 18.
- 1 2 "Vandals game in losing to UCLA, 40-13, and crowd of 25,000 finds contest one of the season's best" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. December 6, 1942. p. 13.
- 1 2 "Bruins, Trojans win Coast tilts" . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon). United Press. December 6, 1942. p. 21.
- ↑ Thomas, Jim (September 27, 1942). "Vandals lose to heavier OSC eleven, 32-0" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). p. 11.
- ↑ "Second Air Force "Superbombers" (1942)" . Greater Northwest Football Association . Retrieved November 20, 2016 .
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Stark, Charles R., Jr. (October 10, 1942).
"Idaho defeats Eastern Washington in game which shows everything"
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Spokesman-Review
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10.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link ) - ↑ "Vandals click with Manson to trounce Cheney" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. October 10, 1942. p. 8.
- ↑ "Cards trounce Vandals, 54-7" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. October 18, 1942. p. 9.
- ↑ "Oregon defeats Vandals, 28-0" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. October 25, 1942. p. 11.
- ↑ Strite, Dick (November 25, 1942). "Oregon swamps Idaho Vandals 28-0 for first win" . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon). p. 1.
- ↑ "Vandals defeat Pilots, 20-14, in late rally" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. November 22, 1942. p. 11.
- ↑ "Utah is victor over Idaho team" . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. November 27, 1942. p. 10.
- ↑ "Kennedy merits All-Coast spot" . Spokane Daily Chronicle . (Washington). Associated Press. December 10, 1942. p. 14.
- ↑ Newland, Rus (December 10, 1942). "Only two Northwest players on Coast conference all-star team" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. p. 10.
- ↑ "Francis Schmidt dies in Spokane" . Toled.o Blade . (Ohio). INS. September 20, 1944. p. 16 . Retrieved May 1, 2012 .
- ↑ "Coach Schmidt dead, Spokane" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. September 20, 1944. p. 7 . Retrieved May 1, 2012 .
- ↑ "Coach Schmidt of Idaho dies" . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington). September 20, 1944. p. 10.
- ↑ "Schmidt dies" . Spokane Daily Chronicle . (Washington). photo. September 20, 1944. p. 13.
- ↑ "Death claims Francis Schmidt, ex-coach at the U. of Idaho" . Spokane Daily Chronicle . (Washington). September 20, 1944. p. 13.
- ↑ "Texas recalls Francis Schmidt" . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. September 21, 1944. p. 10.
- ↑ Blanchette, John (November 6, 2009). "Schmidt adds spice to UI's tale" . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington).
- ↑ "J.A. 'Babe' Brown resigns as head football coach at Idaho" . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho). Associated Press. November 30, 1946. p. 8.
External links
- Gem of the Mountains: 1943 University of Idaho yearbook – 1942 football season
- Go Mighty Vandals – 1942 football season
- Idaho Argonaut – student newspaper – 1942 editions
- College Football Data Warehouse Archived 2016-01-06 at the Wayback Machine – Idaho Vandals (1940–44)
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