North Carolina Pre-Flight at Navy
Saturday, September 30, 1944 Share
North Carolina Pre-Flight beat Navy 21–14. It was their second meeting; the series is even at 1–1.
FinalHigh 62°F, low 56°F, 0.23 in. of rain
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 2, 1944, page 4
Read the text
SURPRISES AND Up5ET5 ON GRiDIR0N If a centipede had crawled across a map of the United States on Saturday everyone of its hundred legs would have touched a point where a football surprise took place and upsets were as numerous as ants at Firemen’s picnic. North Carolina Pre-flight stunned the Navy, 21–14. Pennsylvania, scoring in the first IS seconds, spilled Duke, 18–7. Wisconsin tripped Northwestern, 7–6.
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.
On the newsreel
- N.C. PRE-FLIGHT 21, NAVY 14Navy, a heavy pre-season favorite to win National gridiron honors, is sunk by the North Carolina Pre-Flighters, whose roster is sprinkled with former collegian all-stars
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Navy 73% to win. North Carolina Pre-Flight pulled the upset.
Tied 1–1 in two meetings.
| 1944 | North Carolina Pre-Flight 21, Navy 14 | |
| 1943 | Navy 31, North Carolina Pre-Flight 0 |
Around this game
North Carolina Pre-Flight
- Next gameat DukeOct. 7, 1944
- SeasonNorth Carolina Pre-Flight in 1944
- ProgramNorth Carolina Pre-Flight history and records
Navy
- Next gamevs. Penn StateOct. 7, 1944
- SeasonNavy in 1944
- ProgramNavy history and records