Pacific vs. March Field

Saturday, December 11, 1943

March Field beat Pacific 19–⁠10. It was their only meeting on record.

Neutral sitePacific7–⁠2 in 1943
10
Neutral siteMarch Field9–⁠1 in 1943
19

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: March Field Defeats College Of Pacific.

    The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., December 12, 1943, page 9

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    March Field Defeats College Of Pacific. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11-lR- March Fields Fourth Air Force football team had too much pow er and weight for Amos Alonzo Stages game little College of the Pacific squad today and used it for a 10 to 0 victory that closed the 1943 season in Memorial Coli scum. Attendance was cut TO $500 by an intermittent drizzle that stop ped as soon as the players took the field Coach Paul Schissler’s service team had an advantage of 20 pounds to the man and used it effectively. Stages Tigers, had difficulty breaking down the tight ly-knit March Field interference which enable such speedsters as Indian Jack jacobs, ex-Oklaho. ma, Bob Defruiter of Nebraska and Jimmy Nelson of Alabama to turn the ends for long gains. AS check against sweeps around the ends the Filters sent 2oO-pound Sal Rosato, former Vii. lanova fullback, ripping through the tired Pacific line.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

March Field 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

March Field leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

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