Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets
Great Lakes Navy has played football since at least 1917 and is 40–13–5 in the 58 games on record. Their best finish in the final AP poll is No. 6, in 1943. Paul Brown (1944–1945) won more games here than any other coach: 15. This season, they’re 0–1.
Résumé
- Record on file
- 40–13–5 .733; how we count
- Postseason
- 1–0 bowls, title games, playoff
- AP No. 1 finishes
- 0
- Weeks at No. 1
- 0 of 11 ranked
- Elo now
- 1537
- Seasons
- 8 since 1917, 58 games
1951 season 0–1
RosterFull 1951 season
Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.
Program strength since 1917
Best seasons everHead coaches
| Coach | Years | Record |
|---|---|---|
 Paul Brown | 1944–1945 | 15–6–2 |
Most-played series
All rivalries- Marquette
6–0 in 6
Won the last six.
- Notre Dame
2–1–2 in 5
Won the last one.
- Purdue
3–2 in 5
Lost the last one.
| Opponent | Games | Great Lakes Navy record |
|---|---|---|
| Marquette | 6 | 6–0 |
| Notre Dame | 5 | 2–1–2 |
| Purdue | 5 | 3–2 |
Every opponent (26)
Every program Great Lakes Navy has played, A to Z, with Great Lakes Navy’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.
- Camp Grant 2–0
- Chicago 0–1
- College All-Stars 0–1
- Drake 0–1
- Fort Benning 0–1
- Fort Riley 1–0
- Fort Sheridan 1–0
- Fort Warren 2–0
- Illinois 3–0–1
- Indiana 1–0
- Iowa 4–0
- Mare Island Marines 1–0
- Marquette 6–0
- Michigan 0–2
- Michigan State 1–1
- Missouri 1–0
- Morris Field 1–0
- Navy 1–0
- Northwestern 2–1–1
- Notre Dame 2–1–2
- Ohio State 1–1
- Pittsburgh 2–0
- Purdue 3–2
- Rutgers 1–0
- Western Michigan 3–0
- Wisconsin 1–1–1
On the newsreel
- GREAT LAKES 27, PURDUE 18
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.
Season by season
National champions| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 0–1 | 1537 | |||||
| 1945 | 6–4–1 | Paul Brown | 1600 | ||||
| 1944 | 9–2–1 | 5 | 17 | Paul Brown | 1658 | ||
| 1943 | 10–2 | 12 | 6 | 1674 | |||
| 1942 | 8–3–1 | 1607 | |||||
| 1919few games on file | 0–1 | 1444 | |||||
| 1918 | 6–0–2 | 1491 | |||||
| 1917few games on file | 1–0 | 1235 |
No season on file for 1920–41, 1946–50: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.
All 8 seasons on file are complete, game by game: every win and loss in the record has its game here.
Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.