The 1942 Albuquerque Army Air Base Base Flying Kellys football team, sometimes known as the Flying Colin Kellys, represented Albuquerque Army Air Base (Albuquerque AAB), located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the 1942 college football season. The Flying Kellys compiled a 5–4 record, not including an October 30 intra-squad game in which the starters defeated the substitutes. Captain Ted Shipkey (head coach at New Mexico before the war) was the head coach, and Ted Wright was the assistant coach. Wright served as acting head coach against Arizona State due to an injury to Shipkey.
The team utilized the "accordion shuffle shift" offense that Shipkey had developed during his tenure as head coach with the New Mexico Lobos.
The team was named after Colin Kelly, an Army aviator who was killed when his B-17 Flying Fortress was shot down in combat on December 10, 1941. The Air Base also adopted a New Mexico mountain burro as its mascot.
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Roster The players included the following:
Tiny Ahlgren, guard Roy Anderson, back, formerly of Fullerton High Ed Beddow, center, formerly of Arizona Red Bennett, end, formerly of Ole Miss W.L. "Bobby" Boblett, quarterback, formerly of West Virginia Normal Paul Bognar, guard Dick Campbell Church, back, formerly of California Jack Dungan, tackle, formerly of Arizona French Faucheau, guard Mike Gahar, tackle Troy "Cotton" Gann Gardell, guard Tony Gasparovich, tackle, formerly of Washington Newton Goss, fullback Reece Hill, halfback, formerly of New Mexico Bernie "Lefty" Honan, end, formerly of Wake Forest Harvey Johnson, halfback, formerly of Ole Miss or Mississippi State James H. Kent, tackle, formerly of Alabama T.E. "Tommy" Keough, halfback, formerly of Wisconsin State Ray Kinslow, fullback, sometimes spelled as "Kenslow" Ed Kintz, tackle, formerly of Puget Sound College Lt. Clee Maddox, back, formerly of Indiana Wick Malphurs Eddie Marshall, end, formerly of Georgia Charlie Mathis, guard Hank Morris, center J.O. "Bob" Nestra, halfback, formerly of Texas A&M "Two Ton" Polk, center Ralph R. "Robby" Robinette, tackle, formerly of Sul Ross Ted Shipkey, head coach, appeared in one play against Colorado Springs, at age 38, and injured a tendon in the back of his leg and was sent to El Paso for medical treatment J.R. Shoupe, end, formerly of SMU Vic Smith, guard, Dick Shoupe, end, formerly of SMU Lt. J.S. "Connie" Sparks, formerly of TCU Cecil Szepanski Ted Wright, assistant coach played in the Colorado Springs game on November 15 on his 32nd birthday
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