1943 Mazatlán hurricane, Comparison
Only two other intense hurricanes struck Mazatlan during the period of record: Hurricane Olivia (1975), which hit the city with winds of 115 miles per hour (185 km/h), and a storm in 1957. However, Hurricane Tico (1983) moved ashore very near the city as a major hurricane.


1943 Meistaradeildin
1943 Meistaradeildin was the second season of Meistaradeildin, the top tier of the Faroese football league system. The teams were separated in four groups based on geographical criteria; the winner of each group would qualify for the semi-finals. Each group had its own qualification format. TB Tvøroyri defeated MB Miðvágur 3–2 on aggregate in the championship final.


1943 Meistaradeildin, Qualifying round, Middle
The match was played on 20 June. A second leg was planned to be played on 25 July, but Sand withdrew after the first leg.


1943 Meistaradeildin, Qualifying round, West
MB advanced to the semifinals after SÍF and SÍ withdrew.


1943 Meistaradeildin, Qualifying round, South, Semi-final
The matches were scheduled to be played on 22 and 29 August, but ØB withdrew.


1943 Meistaradeildin, Final
The matches were played at Gundadalur, Tórshavn. After the first game ended in a draw, a replay was needed to decide the champion.


1943 Memorial Cup
The 1943 Memorial Cup final was the 25th junior ice hockey championship of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA). The finals were held at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. CAHA president Frank Sargent chose the location to maximize profits which were reinvested into minor ice hockey in Canada.


1943 Memorial Cup
The George Richardson Memorial Trophy champions Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey Association in Eastern Canada competed against the Abbott Cup champions Winnipeg Rangers of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League in Western Canada. It was the first Memorial Cup final series to use a best-of-seven series format. Winnipeg won their second Memorial Cup, defeating Oshawa 4 games to 2.


1943 Memorial Cup, Winning roster
Bill Boorman, Eddie Coleman, Tom Fowler, Cal Gardner, Jack Irvine, Doug Jackson, Ben Judza, Ritchie MacDonald, Frank Mathers, George Mundrick, Joe Peterson, Church Russell, Gus Schwartz, Jack Taggart, Bill Tindall, Bill Vickers, Stan Warecki. Coach: Bob Kinnear


1943 Memphis Naval Air Station Blues football team
The 1943 Memphis Naval Air Station Blues football team represented the Memphis Naval Air Station during the 1943 college football season. After starting with a 3–0 record, the rest of the Memphis Naval Station's football games were abruptly cancelled on October 10, when the Navy ruled that the NAS could not play at Crump Stadium in Memphis, and so no longer had an adequate playing field to conduct the remainder of their contests. Memphis Naval held out for three weeks in the first three AP polling's of the 1943 season, but were eventually dropped from the rankings on October 25.


1943 Mexican legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Mexico on 15 August 1943. The Party of the Mexican Revolution won all 147 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.


1943 Miami Hurricanes football team
The 1943 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami for the 1943 college football season. The Hurricanes played their home games at Burdine Stadium in Miami, Florida. The team was coached by Eddie Dunn, in his first year as interim head coach, while active head coach Jack Harding served in World War II.


1943 Miami Redskins football team
The 1943 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University as an independent during the 1943 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Stu Holcomb, Miami compiled a 7–2–1 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 293 to 91. The team lost to Western Michigan (0–6) and Arkansas A&M (0–35) and played Indiana to a 7–7 tie. Bob Russell was the honorary team captain.


1943 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team
The 1943 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1943 college football season. In their 22nd season under head coach Elton Rynearson, the Hurons compiled an undefeated record of 2–0, playing two games (on October 18 and 28) against Wayne State and winning both games by identical 14–0 scores. William R. Nuse and John G. Baker were the team captains. The team played its home game at Walter O. Briggs Field on the school's campus in Ypsilanti, Michigan.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1943 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1943 Big Ten Conference football season. Fritz Crisler, in his sixth year as head coach, led the team to an 8–1 record and a tie with Purdue for the Western Conference championship. The team was ranked #3 in the final AP Poll behind Notre Dame and the Iowa Pre-Flight School. Michigan outscored its opponents 302 to 73 in nine games. The team's total of 302 points (33.5 points per game) was the highest point total for a Michigan team since the 1917 team scored 304 points in 10 games (30.4 points per game). Defensively, the team held every opponent, except Notre Dame, to seven or fewer points.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team
After opening the season with three consecutive victories, the Wolverines lost to Notre Dame by a 35–12 score in game matching teams ranked #1 and #2 in the AP Poll. In the fifth game of the season, the team responded with a 49-6 victory over a Minnesota team ranked #11 by the AP. The game marked the worst defeat to that time in the history of the Minnesota football program and Michigan's first victory over the Golden Gophers since 1932. The Wolverines finished the season with a 45–7 victory over Ohio State—the largest margin of victory in the Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry since Michigan's 86–0 victory in 1902.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team
At the end of the season, several Michigan players received individual honors. Despite missing the last three games of the season due to military service, fullback Bill Daley finished seventh in the voting for the Heisman Trophy and was selected as consensus All-American. Daley led the team in both rushing and scoring, totaling 817 rushing yards and 59 points in six games. Daley gained 216 of his rushing yards in Michigan's 21–7 over Northwestern.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team
Bob Wiese, who played at quarterback and fullback, was selected by his teammates as the most valuable player on the 1943 team and finished in a tie for second in voting for the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy presented to the most valuable player in the Western Conference. Right tackle Merv Pregulman was also selected as a first-team All-American by Collier's Weekly and Stars & Stripes. center Fred Negus was also selected as a first-team All-Western Conference player.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
The 1943 season was Fritz Crisler's sixth as the head coach at Michigan. His 1942 team had concluded its season with a 7–3 record and a #9 ranking in the final AP Poll. Several key players from the 1942 team, including tackles Albert Wistert and Bill Pritula, quarterback George Ceithaml, and end Elmer Madar, were lost to graduation. Several others were called up to active military service, including backs Bob Chappuis, Tom Kuzma and Don Robinson.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
Another key player expected to return was right guard Julius Franks, who in 1942 became Michigan's first African-American player to be selected as an All-American. Franks contracted tuberculosis at the start of the school year and missed the entire 1943 season. Fritz Crisler announced on September 7 that Franks had been lost for the season due to illness.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
While Michigan lost a number of key players to wartime service, the school's military training programs (including the V-12 Navy College Training Program) also resulted in more than a dozen players being transferred to Michigan from other schools. The two most highly touted transfers joining the Michigan program in 1943 were fullback Bill Daley from Minnesota and Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch from Wisconsin. After watching Hirsch in pre-season practice, Associated Press football writer Jerry Liska referred to "squirming Elroy Hirsch" as "Wisconsin's gold-plated wartime gift to Michigan." Daley and Hirsch became Michigan's most powerful offensive weapons during the 1943 season and were dubbed Michigan's "lend-lease backs."


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
The arrival of players from other universities required Michigan veterans to be flexible. Merv Pregulman was credited with being Michigan's "Handy Man" for adapting to a new role. Pregulman was a guard for Michigan in 1941 and the starting center in 1942, but moved to right tackle to make room for Fred Negus of Wisconsin at center. With a pre-season injury to place-kicker Jim Brieske, Pregulman also was given responsibility for kick offs and place-kicking extra points.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
With World War II being fought in Europe and the Pacific, some universities, including Michigan State, canceled their football programs for the 1943 season. In April 1943, Fritz Crisler, who was Michigan's athletic director as well as its football coach, announced that the university would continue "a complete schedule in all sports even if Michigan does not receive a dime in revenue." With thousands arriving in the area to work in war industries, Crisler opined the college football would serve civilian morale.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
More importantly, Crisler touted the training impact of the sport: "There is no substitute for football in physical training. The physical advantages of this contact game have been proved repeatedly and are now being demonstrated once more on the battlefield. Football teaches resourcefulness. It develops initiative, demands quick thinking under pressure, and requires courage."


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
Also in April 1943, it was reported that Michigan's 1940 Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon was missing in action. Harmon was serving as a bomber pilot in the Army Air Corps and disappeared while flying a mission in South America. Harmon's bomber had crashed in the jungle in Brazil, killing the entire crew with the exception Harmon. Harmon survived after reportedly hacked his way through the jungle. On learning that Harmon had been found, Fritz Crisler called Harmon "the greatest competitor in the history of football" and added, "And I'll betcha he doesn't have a scratch on him."


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
In August 1943, Albert Benbrook, an All-American who had starred on Fielding H. Yost's Michigan teams from 1908 to 1910, died in Texas.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Camp Grant
On September 18, 1943, Michigan opened the season with a 26-0 victory over the United States Army's Camp Grant Warriors. Camp Grant had opened its season the prior week with a 23-0 victory over Illinois and featured fullback Corwin Clatt, who played for Notre Dame in 1942 and later played in the NFL. In previous years, Michigan had opened its season against Michigan State, but Michigan State did not field a team in 1943. Camp Grant was coached by Michigan State coach Charlie Bachman and replaced the Spartans as Michigan's opponent for the season opener. The game was played in Rockford, Illinois before "a capacity crowd of 6,000 soldiers and 5,000 civilians."


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Camp Grant
Elroy Hirsch was the star of the game for Michigan with a long kickoff return, two touchdowns and an interception. Hirsch had played for Wisconsin in 1942, but was transferred to Michigan as part of the V-12 Navy College Training Program. In his first game as a Wolverine, Hirsch returned the opening kickoff 50 yards "with some dazzling open-field running" to midfield. Hirsch capped the opening drive with a three-yard touchdown run, and Bill Daley, another V-12 transfer student, missed the extra point kick.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Camp Grant
In the second quarter, Jack Wink, another Wisconsin transfer student, took over at quarterback and completed a 30-yard pass to Art Renner at Camp Grant's three-yard line. Hirsch ran for his second touchdown, and Daley again missed the extra point kick. Paul White scored on a reverse from Daley in the third quarter, and Merv Pregulman kicked the extra point to give Michigan the lead at 19-0. Michigan's final score was set up when Hirsch intercepted a pass on the Camp Grant 39-yard line. Daley scored Michigan's final touchdown on a 23-yard run in the fourth quarter, and Pregulman kicked his second extra point. Paul White also tallied an interception in the third quarter after Camp Grant had taken the ball to the Michigan 12-yard line.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Camp Grant
Michigan dominated the game statistically with 226 rushing yards, 138 passing yards, and three interceptions. The Wolverines held Camp Grant to four first downs, 43 rushing yards, and 51 passing yards. The account of the game published by the International News Service emphasized Michigan's teamwork and noted that Michigan was "considered the 1943 powerhouse of collegiate football."


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Camp Grant
Michigan's starting lineup against Camp Grant was Rudy Smeja (left end), Bob Hanzlik (left tackle), John Gallagher (left guard), Fred Negus (center), George Kraeger (right guard), Merv Pregulman (right tackle), Art Renner (right end), Bob Wiese (quarterback), Elroy Hirsch (left halfback), Paul White (right halfback), and Bill Daley (fullback).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Camp Grant
Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Hank Olshanski, Fenwick Crane, Rex Wells, Farnham Johnson, Bob Rennebohm, and Clifton Myll (ends); John Greene, Robert Kennedy, Clem Bauman and Fred Bryan (tackles), Amstutz, Robert Fischer, William Sigler and Jack Trump (guards); Harold Watts (center); Bob Nussbaumer, Wally Dreyer, Jack Petoskey, Jim Holgate, Jack Wink, Joe Ponsetto, Hugh Mack, Jim Aliber, Don Lund, Earl Maves and Bob Stenberg (backs).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Western Michigan
In the second game of the 1943 season, Michigan defeated Western Michigan by a score of 57 to 6 before a crowd of only 18,000 spectators at Michigan Stadium. Michigan scored two touchdowns in each quarter, and its 57 points was the highest single-game total since 1939. Elroy Hirsch scored two touchdowns in the first quarter, and Michigan also scored on a safety in the opening quarter when Bob Hanzlik tackled Bob Mellen in the end zone. Bill Daley had a 65-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, and Bob Nussbaumer, substituting for Hirsch, also scored two touchdowns.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Western Michigan
Michigan's remaining touchdowns were scored by Bob Wiese, Wally Dreyer and Bill Culligan. Merv Pregulman converted on seven of eight extra point kicks. Western Michigan's touchdown came on a two-yard run by Augie Camarata in the second quarter. The Chicago Daily Tribune reported that head coach Fritz Crisler "tried vainly to stem the tide by resorting to fourth and fifth string players after the regulars had piled up a convincing early lead." A total of 43 players appeared in the game for Michigan.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Western Michigan
Michigan's starting lineup against Western Michigan was Rudy Smeja (left end), Bob Hanzlik (left tackle), George Kraeger (left guard), Fred Negus (center), John Gallagher (right guard), Merv Pregulman (right tackle), Art Renner (right end), Bob Wiese (quarterback), Elroy Hirsch (left halfback), Paul White (right halfback), and Bill Daley (fullback).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Western Michigan
Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Bob Rennebohn, Farnham Johnson, Jack Petoskey, Hank Olshanski, Alan Schwartz, Vincent Mroz, Bruce Hilkene, and Clifton Myll (ends); John Greene, Clem Bauman, Fred Bryan and Robert Kennedy (tackles); Rex Wells, Ralph Amstutz, Jack Trump, Robert Fischer, William Rohrback (guards); John Crandell (center); Jack Wink, Joe Ponsetto, Hugh Mack and Jim Aliber (quarterbacks); Bob Nussbaumer, Wally Dreyer, Lynch, Jim Holgate, William Culligan, James Brown and Jerome Powers (halfbacks); and Don Lund, Bob Stenberg, and Earl Maves (fullbacks).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: at Northwestern
On October 2, 1943, Michigan defeated the Northwestern Wildcats by a score of 21 to 7 at Evanston, Illinois. Bill Daley was the star of the game for Michigan, rushing for 216 yards and two touchdowns on 26 carries (an average of 8.3 yards per carry). Wilfrid Smith in the Chicago Daily Tribune wrote: "The difference between victory and defeat yesterday was Daley. Few players ever have so throroly [sic] dominated an offense."


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: at Northwestern
On the game's first play from scrimmage, Daley scored on a 37-yard sweep around the right end, "tearing out of a tackler's arms on the 10 yard line." Elroy Hirsch also scored on three-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Hirsch's touchdown was set up by a 67-yard "quick kick" by Hirsch that was rolled dead at the Northwestern one-yard line. Northwestern was forced to punt into the wind, giving Michigan good field position at the Northwestern 29-yard line. Northwestern scored on a 12-yard run by 1943 Western Conference MVP Otto Graham in the fourth quarter.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: at Northwestern
Thirty seconds after the touchdown by Graham, Daley scored on a 64-yard run, described in one account as "a mouse trap play." On Daley's long run, Northwestern's Otto Graham, playing at the safety position, was the last man Daley needed to pass. Daley ran directly at Graham and "then cut away cleanly" for the touchdown. Merv Pregulman converted on all three extra point kicks for Michigan. Pregulman also intercepted a pass thrown by Graham to stop a late drive by the Wildcats. Through the first three games, Michigan's backs had combined for 753 rushing yards.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: at Northwestern
Michigan's starting lineup against Northwestern was Rudy Smeja (left end), Bob Hanzlik (left tackle), George Kraeger (left guard), Fred Negus (center), John Gallagher (right guard), Merv Pregulman (right tackle), Art Renner (right end), Bob Wiese (quarterback), Elroy Hirsch (left halfback), Paul White (right halfback), and Bill Daley (fullback). Substitutes for Michigan were Bob Rennebohm, Farnham Johnson and Vincent Mroz (end); John Greene (tackle); Rex Wells (guard); William Culligan, Bob Wiese, Wally Dreyer and Don Lund (backs).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Notre Dame
On October 9, 1943, Michigan faced Notre Dame in the most anticipated game of the 1943 college football season. Notre Dame, coached by Frank Leahy and led by 1943 Heisman Trophy winner Angelo Bertelli, came into the game ranked #1 in the AP Poll with 53 first place votes. Michigan came into the game ranked #2 receiving 36 first place votes. The game drew a record crowd of 85,688 spectators to Michigan Stadium. The previous record was a crowd of 85,088 that attended the 1929 Michigan-Ohio State game.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Notre Dame
The crowd also set the mark as the highest attendance at any college football game for the 1943 season. Michigan had defeated Notre Dame, 32-20, in the 1942 season. Michigan coach Fritz Crisler announced before the game that Elroy Hirsch was suffering from damaged knee ligaments and might not be able to play.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Notre Dame
Notre Dame defeated Michigan in the game by a score of 35 to 12. According to the United Press game account, Bertelli's passing "caught the Wolverine secondary flatfooted and out of position repeatedly to make the rout complete." Another reporter wrote that Bertelli had "proved his mastery of the intricacies of the T formation and his superb control of forward passes." Notre Dame's first touchdown came on a 66-yard run by Creighton Miller. Michigan scored in the second quarter on four-yard touchdown run by Art Renner, but Pregulman's extra point attempt failed after Elroy Hirsch initially bobbled the snap.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Notre Dame
Following the kickoff, Bertelli threw a pass to Fred Early for a 69-yard scoring play and Notre Dame led 14-6. Notre Dame scored again late in the second quarter on a 34-yard pass from Bertelli to John Zilly followed by a two-yard touchdown run by Jim Mello. Notre Dame led, 21-6, at halftime.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Notre Dame
The third quarter was marked by a malfunction of the electric clock at Michigan Stadium, resulting in a third quarter that lasted 23 minutes. In the Chicago Daily Tribune, Wilfrid Smith analogized to the 1927 Long Count Fight and wrote that the period "will be remembered as the 'long third quarter' of collegiate sport." Notre Dame outscored Michigan 14-0 in the long third quarter, scoring on a quarterback sneak by Bertelli and a pass from Bertelli to Miller.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Notre Dame
After nine plays had been run in the fourth quarter, the timing error was discovered, and an announcement was made over the stadium's public address system that only two-and-a-half minutes remained in the game, as the fourth quarter was shortened to seven minutes. The only points in the short fourth quarter came on the last play of the game as Elroy Hirsch threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Paul White.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Notre Dame
Despite the lopsided score, Michigan totaled 15 first downs in the game compared to 13 for Notre Dame. Bill Daley gained 135 rushing yards on 24 carries in the game. Michigan gained a total of 210 rushing yards and 89 passing yards.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Notre Dame
In the AP Poll following the game, Notre Dame garnered 86 of 99 first place votes, and Michigan dropped from #2 to #9. Notre Dame went on to win the 1943 national championship, maintaining its #1 ranking in the AP Poll through the remainder of the season.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Notre Dame
Michigan's starting lineup against Notre Dame was Rudy Smeja (left end), Bob Hanzlik (left tackle), John Gallagher (left guard), Fred Negus (center), George Kraeger (right guard), Merv Pregulman (right tackle), Art Renner (right end), Bob Wiese (quarterback), Elroy Hirsch (left halfback), Paul White (right halfback), and Bill Daley (fullback). Jack Wink substituted for Wiese at quarterback, and Wiese moved to fullback with Daley moving to left halfback.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Minnesota
After a bye week following the loss to Notre Dame, the Wolverines faced the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the annual Little Brown Jug game on October 23, 1943. The Wolverines had lost nine straight games to Bernie Bierman's Minnesota teams, the last Michigan victory having been in 1932.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Minnesota
Prior to the game, it was reported that Michigan's lineup would shortly be depleted by wartime transfers. Michigan's team captain and second leading rusher Paul White had received orders transferring him to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, effective immediately after the Minnesota game. Three other Wolverines players, Bob Steinberg, Jim Holgate, and Len Naab were also ordered to Parris Island. Adding to the roster problems, the Navy announced one day before the Minnesota game that it was transferring fullback Bill Daley, right tackle Merv Pregulman, and end Jack Petoskey to new posts effective November 1.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Minnesota
Michigan defeated Minnesota in the 1943 matchup by a score of 49 to 6 in front of a crowd of 45,000 spectators at Michigan Stadium. The 43-point margin made it the worst defeat sustained by a Minnesota team to that point in the program's history. On the first play from scrimmage, Elroy Hirsch ran 61 yards on a reverse around right end for a touchdown. Hirsch scored a total of three touchdowns and also intercepted a Minnesota pass to stop a drive in the fourth quarter.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Minnesota
Bill Daley, the V-12 transfer who played for Minnesota in 1942, became the first player to play for both sides in Little Brown Jug games. Prior to the game, the Chicago Daily Tribune referred to Daley as "the Gophers' war time gift to their football foes." Daley scored two touchdowns, returned a punt for 37 yards to set up Hirsch's second touchdown, and kicked two extra points. After five games, Daley was the leading rusher in college football with 620 rushing yards on 98 carries.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Minnesota
Minnesota's only touchdown was set up by an interception of a pass thrown by Jack Wink. The interception was returned to Michigan's 15-yard line, and Frank Loren scored the touchdown late in the second quarter. Bob Wiese blocked Minnesota's extra point kick. In the fourth quarter, Wink threw a 51-yard touchdown pass to Farnham Johnson. Bob Nussbaumer also scored a touchdown for Michigan. Merv Pregulman added four extra points. Michigan dominated the game with 230 rushing yards and 128 passing yards, while holding Minnesota to 60 rushing yards and 14 passing yards.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Minnesota
Michigan's starting lineup against Minnesota was Rudy Smeja (left end), Bob Hanzlik (left tackle), John Gallagher (left guard), Fred Negus (center), George Kraeger (right guard), Merv Pregulman (right tackle), Hank Olshanski (right end), Bob Wiese (quarterback), Elroy Hirsch (left halfback), Paul White (right halfback), and Bill Daley (fullback).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Minnesota
Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Jack Petoskey, Farnham Johnson, Bob Rennebohm, Vincent Mroz, Fenwick Crane, Clifton Myll, and Art Renner (ends); Robert Derleth, John Greene, Robert Kennedy, Fred Bryan and Leonard Naab (tackles); Rex Wells and Robert Fischer (guards); John Crandell (center); and Jack Wink, Hugh Mack, Joe Ponsetto, Jim Aliber, Wally Dreyer, Bob Nussbaumer, Earl Maves, Howard Wikel, James Brown and Bob Stenberg (backs).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: at Illinois
On October 30, 1943, Michigan played the Illinois Fighting Illini at Champaign, Illinois. Michigan won the game by a score of 42 to 6. Bill Daley and Elroy Hirsch, known as Michigan's "lend-lease backs", each scored two touchdowns and were the stars of the game for Michigan. Daley also kicked an extra point for Michigan to bring his point total in the game to 13 points. Daley rushed for 197 yards on 22 carries against the Illini. Hirsch was described as being "the outstanding defensive player of the afternoon, being the only Wolverine who seemed able to stop" Illinois' backs. As a team, the Wolverines totaled 453 rushing yards against the Illini.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: at Illinois
The Illinois game was the last of the 1943 season for Bill Daley and Merv Pregulman, both of whom were named All-Americans at the end of the season. Both had been ordered to report to the Norfolk Naval Training Station. In six games for Michigan during the 1943 season, Daley gained 817 rushing yards on 120 carries, and led the team with 51 points scored. Multiple players from Midwestern teams were ordered to report for duty on November 1, 1943 (including Notre Dame's Heisman Trophy winner Angelo Bertelli and Tony Butkovich and Alex Agase of Purdue), leading Wilfrid Smith in the Chicago Daily Tribune to refer to the date as "Blue Monday."


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: at Illinois
Bob Wiese also scored a touchdown for Michigan on "a 6-yard spinner play" in the fourth quarter. Bob Nussbaumer scored Michigan's final touchdown on a run from the one-foot line. Merv Pregulman appeared in his final college football game, converting on five extra point kicks. Michigan outgained Illinois by a total of 473 yards to 206.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: at Illinois
Michigan's starting lineup against Illinois was Jack Petoskey (left end), Bob Hanzlik (left tackle), John Gallagher (left guard), Fred Negus (center), George Kraeger (right guard), Merv Pregulman (right tackle), Rudy Smeja (right end), Bob Wiese (quarterback), Elroy Hirsch (left halfback), Wally Dreyer (right halfback), and Bill Daley (fullback).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Indiana
On November 6, 1943, Michigan defeated the Indiana Hoosiers by a score of 23 to 6 in front of a crowd of 20,000 at Michigan Stadium. With Paul White, Bill Daley and Merv Pregulman lost to military service, Michigan was required to substantially revamp its lineup. Bob Wiese moved from quarterback to fullback, Jack Wink became the starting quarterback, and Robert Derleth took over Pregulman's spot at right tackle. The game began with cool, cloudy conditions and ended in "a steady drizzle."


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Indiana
Bob Wiese and Elroy Hirsch starred for Michigan. Wiese led the team with 100 yards on 18 carries. Hirsh ran for a touchdown in the first quarter and threw a 43-yard touchdown pass (35 yards in the air) to Wally Dreyer in the second quarter. The Wolverines held Indiana's highly-touted quarterback Bobby Hoernschemeyer to four completions out of 16 passes, intercepted four of his passes, and forced him out of the end zone for a safety as he attempted to pass in the third quarter.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Indiana
Explaining Hoernscemeyer's difficulties, the Chicago Daily Tribune noted that "the Hoosier backfield seemed swarming with Michigan men." Indiana's sole score came on an eight-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter from Hoernschemeyr to Pete Pihos. Indiana's touchdown was set up when Indiana intercepted a Bob Nussbaumer lateral and returned it 48 yards to Michigan's seven-yard line. Rudy Smeja intercepted a Hoernschemeyer pass in the fourth quarter and returned it 38 yards for a touchdown. Rex Wells, a V-12 Marine transfer from Idaho State, took over Pregulman's place-kicking duties and converted three extra point kicks for Michigan. Michigan outgained the Hoosiers by 269 to 124 rushing yards.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Indiana
Michigan's starting lineup against Indiana was Rudy Smeja (left end), Bob Hanzlik (left tackle), John Gallagher (left guard), Fred Negus (center), George Kraeger (right guard), Robert Derleth (right tackle), Bob Rennebohm (right end), Jack Wink (quarterback), Elroy Hirsch (left halfback), Wally Dreyer (right halfback), and Bob Wiese (fullback). Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Hank Olshanski, Farnham Johnson, and Vincent Mroz (ends); Clem Bauman (tackle); Rex Wells (guard); Don Lund (quarterback); Bob Nussbaumer, Howard Wikel, and Earl Maves (halfback).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Wisconsin
On November 13, 1943, Michigan defeated the Wisconsin Badgers by a score of 27 to 0 in front of a crowd of 15,000 spectators at Michigan Stadium. Through the 1943 season, the Wolverines had relied on halfback Elroy Hirsch, a star for Wisconsin in 1942. Hirsch was sidelined for most of the game with a shoulder injury, but a total of ten former Badgers played for Michigan in the game, including center Fred Negus, quarterback Jack Wink, halfback Wally Dreyer, guard Johnny Gallagher, tackle Bob Hanzlik, and ends Hank Olshanski and Earl Maves.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Wisconsin
Lacking a Navy or Marine training program on its campus, Wisconsin had lost most of its best football players after the 1942 season, with the majority being transferred to Michigan. On the day before the game, Detroit sports writer Watson Spoelstra joked, "Shed a tear, friend, for [Wisconsin coach] Harry Stuhldreher who, in effect, will field two football teams here tomorrow, one for Wisconsin and one for Michigan." A Chicago sportswriter added that the only way Stuhldrher's team could win the game was "on a common and simple legal process -- a writ of replevin."


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Wisconsin
After Bob Wiese scored a touchdown in the first quarter, coach Fritz Crisler "dug deep into his reserve ranks" and played the final three quarters with second and third stringers. Bob Nussbaumer accounted for two touchdowns for Michigan, a 19-yard touchdown run in the second quarter and a 34-yard touchdown pass to Maves in the fourth quarter. Backup halfback Howard Wikel also scored a touchdown in the second quarter. Hirsch appeared briefly in the game to convert an extra point kick. Rex Wells converted two of his three extra point kicks. Michigan dominated Wisconsin on the ground by a total of 294 rushing yards to 67.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Wisconsin
Michigan's starting lineup against Wisconsin was Rudy Smeja (left end), Bob Hanzlik (left tackle), John Gallagher (left guard), Fred Negus (center), Rex Wells (right guard), Robert Derleth (right tackle), Art Renner (right end), Jack Wink (quarterback), Bob Nussbaumer (left halfback), Wally Dreyer (right halfback), and Bob Wiese (fullback).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Wisconsin
Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Hank Olshanski, Farnham Johnson, Bob Rennebohm, Vincent Mroz, Fenwick Crane, Bruce Hilkene, and Thomas Cook (ends); John Greene, Fred Bryan, Clem Bauman, Robert Oren, and Arthur Leroux (tackle); Clifton Myll, William Sigler, Ray Sturges, and Jack Trump (guards); Frank Kern and Harold Watts (centers); Don Lund, Joe Ponsetto, Jim Aliber, Earl Maves, Howard Wikel, Elroy Hirsch, Jerome Powers and George Welch (backs).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Ohio State
Michigan concluded the 1943 season with its annual rivalry game against Ohio State. The game matched Hall of Fame coaches Fritz Crisler of Michigan and Paul Brown of Ohio State. Since Brown took over as head coach in 1941, the Buckeyes were undefeated against Michigan, playing to a tie in 1941 and defeating the Wolverines in 1942. The Wolverines scored seven touchdowns and defeated the Buckeyes 45 to 7 in front of a crowd of 45,000 at Michigan Stadium. The margin of victory was the largest in the series since Michigan's 86-0 victory over Ohio State in 1902.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Ohio State
Michigan threatened early after Rudy Smeja recovered an Ohio State fumble on the Buckeyes' 14-yard line, but the Wolverines were unable to score. On the next drive, Michigan drove 60 yards for a touchdown, culminating with a screen pass from Jack Wink to Bob Wiese and a three-yard touchdown run by Wiese. When the Buckeyes took over, they faked a punt on fourth down, failed to convert, and Michigan took over at the Ohio State 41-yard line. Wiese carried the ball seven times on the drive, and Wally Dreyer scored on a lateral after a fake by Wiese. Michigan did not score in the second quarter and led 13-0 at the half.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Ohio State
Early in the third quarter, a punt by Wiese was blocked, and Ohio State took over at Michigan's 48-yard line. Ohio State's freshman halfback Ernie Parks gained 36 yards on a reverse around the left end and scored to cut Michigan's lead to 13-7. Michigan responded with 32 unanswered points. The Wolverines' second half scoring began with a 59-yard drive that featured a 23-yard run by Earl Maves and ended with a four-yard touchdown run by Wiese.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Ohio State
Late in the third quarter, the Wolverines sustained a 57-yard scoring drive that ended with Wiese faking the run, handing off to Jack Wink, and Wink then lateraling the ball to Bob Nussbaumer who ran 31 yards on a sweep around the left end for a touchdown. On the first drive of the fourth quarter, Parks fumbled for Ohio State and Hank Olshanski recovered the ball on Ohio State's 45-yard line. With the ball on the 33-yard line, Wink threw a touchdown pass to Vincent Mroz.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Ohio State
Trailing 26-7, Ohio State again ran a fake punt on fourth down, and Michigan took over at the Buckeyes' 23-yard line. Earl Maves scored on a reverse. Michigan's final touchdown followed an interception by Maves at the Ohio State 40-yard line. Joe Ponsetto caught a pass for a 20-yard gain, and Don Lund ran 20 yards for the touchdown.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Ohio State
Quarterback Bob Wiese was the star of the game for Michigan, rushing for 138 yards and two touchdowns on 30 carries. Elroy Hirsch appeared in the game only to attempt extra point kicks, converting on only one of three attempts. Rex Wells converted two extra point kicks. Michigan dominated Ohio State on the ground, totaling 436 rushing yards to only 112 for Ohio State. The Wolverines also limited Ohio State to three pass completions for 27 yards and intercepted three Ohio State passes.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Ohio State
Michigan's starting lineup against Ohio State was Rudy Smeja (left end), Bob Hanzlik (left tackle), John Gallagher (left guard), Fred Negus (center), Rex Wells (right guard), Robert Derleth (right tackle), Art Renner (right end), Bob Wiese (quarterback), Bob Nussbaumer (left halfback), Wally Dreyer (right halfback), and Don Lund (fullback).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Ohio State
Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Hank Olshanski, Farnham Johnson, Vincent Mroz, Bob Rennebohm, Fenwick Crane, Thomas Cooke, Bruce Hilkene (ends); John Greene, Fred Bryan, and Robert Kennedy (tackles); George Kraeger, Clifton Myll, William Sigler, Ray Sturges, and Jack Trump (guards); Frank Kern (center); and Earl Maves, Elroy Hirsch, Howard Wikel, Jerome Powers, Jack Wink, Joe Ponsetto, and Jim Aliber (backs).


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Postseason
The 1943 Michigan football team tied with Purdue for the Western Conference championship, the Wolverines' first conference championship since the undefeated 1933 Michigan team won both the conference and national championships. It was also the first time since 1932 that Michigan had gone undefeated and untied against conference opponents. In the final AP Poll, Notre Dame was selected as the #1 team in the country followed by Iowa Pre-Flight at #2 and Michigan at #3. Two other Western Conference teams finished in the top ten: Purdue at #5 and Northwestern at #9.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Postseason
On November 24, 1943, the team chose Bob Wiese, a junior from Jamestown, North Dakota, as the squad's most valuable player. They also elected him as the team captain of the 1944 team. Wiese also finished in a tie for second place (behind Otto Graham) in the voting for the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy, awarded each year to the most valuable player in the Western Conference.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Postseason
Despite missing the final three games, fullback Bill Daley finished seventh in the voting for the 1943 Heisman Trophy with 71 points. He was also recognized as a consensus All-American, receiving first-team honors from the Associated Press, the United Press, Collier's Weekly (selected by Grantland Rice), the Central Press Association (selected with the assistance of the nation's football captains), Stars and Stripes, the International News Syndicate, and the New York Sun.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Postseason
Tackle Merv Pregulman was selected as a first-team All-American by Collier's Weekly, and Stars & Stripes, and as a second-team All-American by the United Press.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Postseason
For its All-Western Conference team, the Associated Press chose two Michigan players, Bill Daley and center Fred Negus.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Postseason
The war time exploits of Tom Harmon continued to draw national press coverage during the 1943 season and into the post-season. After crashing in the jungle in Brazil in April, Harmon was credited in August 1943 (erroneously according to later accounts) with shooting down a Japanese Zero in an air battle after a bombing raid on a dock area and shipping in Hong Kong. Harmon was again reported missing in action after a combat mission at Jiujiang, China, on October 30, 1943.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Postseason
Harmon shot down two Japanese Zeros, but was shot down behind Japanese lines and bailed out of his P-38 Lightning aircraft as it plummeted to the ground in flames. He was rescued by Chinese guerrillas who led him through hundreds of miles of Japanese-occupied territory. Harmon reported that he had survived on a diet of rice for 32 days.


1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election
The Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, 1943 was a parliamentary by-election held in Scotland on 11 February 1943 to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the House of Commons constituency of Midlothian and Peebles Northern.


1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election
It was notable for the strong showing of the Common Wealth Party candidate.


1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, Vacancy
The vacancy was caused by the resignation in January 1943 of the constituency's Unionist MP, John Colville, to take up the post of Governor of Bombay. He had held the seat since the 1929 general election.


1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, Candidates
During World War II, the parties in the Coalition Government had agreed not to contest by-elections in seats held by other coalition parties, and many wartime by-elections were therefore unopposed.


1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, Candidates
The Unionist Party nominated Sir David King Murray, the Solicitor General for Scotland, who may have expected to be returned unopposed. The Labour, Liberal and National Liberal parties upheld the agreement, but other parties who disagreed with the truce could not be prevented from standing as independent candidates, and nor could other minor parties. In this case, the newly formed Common Wealth Party nominated its candidate Tom Wintringham, one of the party's founders.


1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, Result
The result was a victory for the Unionist candidate, Sir David King Murray, but with a massively-reduced majority. At the 1935 general election, the Unionist majority over the Labour Party candidate had been 25.8% of the votes, but Wintringham cut that to 3.8%.


1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, Aftermath
A week after the by-election, Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels cited Common Wealth's strong showing as evidence of a communist resurgence in Britain. Making his famous  to an audience of Nazi loyalists in Berlin's Sportpalast, Goebbels said: "In a recent by-election for the House of Commons, the independent, that is communist, candidate got 10,741 of the 22,371 votes cast. This was in a district that had formerly been a conservative stronghold. Within a short time, 10,000 voters, nearly half, had been lost to the communists. That is proof that the Bolshevist danger exists in England too, and that it will not go away simply because it is ignored."


1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, Aftermath
King Murray held the seat only until the post-war general election in July 1945, when he stood down to be a Senator of the College of Justice and a Lord of Session.


1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, Aftermath
Wintringham stood in Aldershot at the 1945 general election, but without success. His wife Kitty contested Midlothian and Peebles in 1945, but won only 6.4% of the votes and lost her deposit.


1943 Milan–San Remo
The 1943 Milan–San Remo was the 36th edition of the Milan–San Remo cycle race and was held on 19 March 1943. The race started in Milan and finished in San Remo. The race was won by Cino Cinelli of the Bianchi team.


1943 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 1943 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1943 Big Ten Conference football season. In their second year under head coach George Hauser, the Golden Gophers compiled a 5–4 record but were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 184 to 170.


1943 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
Fullback Bill Daley and end Herb Hein were named All-Americans by the Associated Press. Daley was also named an All-American by Collier's/Grantland Rice. Tackle Paul Mitchell was named All-Big Ten first team.


1943 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
Total attendance for the season was 182,779, which averaged to 26,111. The season high for attendance was against Purdue.


1943 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
On October 23, 1942, Minnesota played Michigan in the annual Little Brown Jug game. The Wolverines had lost nine straight games to Bernie Bierman's Minnesota teams, the last Michigan victory having been in 1932.


1943 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Michigan defeated Minnesota by a score of 49 to 6 in front of a crowd of 45,000 spectators at Michigan Stadium. The 43-point margin made it the worst defeat sustained by a Minnesota team to that point in the program's history. On the first play from scrimmage, Elroy Hirsch ran 61 yards on a reverse around right end for a touchdown. Hirsch scored a total of three touchdowns and also intercepted a Minnesota pass to stop a drive in the fourth quarter.


1943 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Bill Daley, the V-12 transfer who played for Minnesota in 1942, became the first player to play for both sides in Little Brown Jug games. Prior to the game, the Chicago Daily Tribune referred to Daley as "the Gophers' war time gift to their football foes." Daley scored two touchdowns, returned a punt for 37 yards to set up Hirsch's second touchdown, and kicked two extra points. After five games, Daley was the leading rusher in college football with 620 rushing yards on 98 carries.


1943 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Minnesota's only touchdown was set up by an interception of a pass thrown by Jack Wink. The interception was returned to Michigan's 15-yard line, and Frank Loren scored the touchdown late in the second quarter. Bob Wiese blocked Minnesota's extra point kick. In the fourth quarter, Wink threw a 51-yard touchdown pass to Farnham Johnson. Bob Nussbaumer also scored a touchdown for Michigan. Merv Pregulman added four extra points. Michigan dominated the game with 230 rushing yards and 128 passing yards, while holding Minnesota to 60 rushing yards and 14 passing yards.


1943 Mississippi gubernatorial election
The 1943 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1943 to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Democrat Paul B. Johnson Sr. was term-limited, and could not run for reelection to a second term (he died less than two months after the election was held). As was common at the time, the Democratic candidate ran unopposed in the general election so therefore the Democratic primary was the real contest, and winning the primary was considered tantamount to election.


1943 Mississippi gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
No candidate received a majority in the Democratic primary, which featured 4 contenders, so a runoff was held between the top two candidates. The runoff election was won by former state representative Thomas L. Bailey, who defeated former Governor Martin S. Conner.


1943 Missouri Tigers football team
The 1943 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Six Conference (Big 6) during the 1943 college football season. The team compiled a 6–3 record (3–2 against Big 6 opponents), finished in a tie for second place in the Big 6, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 170 to 142. Chauncey Simpson was the head coach for the first of three seasons. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.


1943 Missouri Tigers football team
The team's leading scorers were Bill Dellastatious and Don Reece, each with 36 points.


1943 Missouri Tigers football team
Don Faurot, who had been the team's head coach since 1935, stepped down in June 1943 to join the United States Navy during World War II. Chauncey Simpson, who had been the school's head track coach and a backfield coach for the football team, was appointed to serve as "acting football coach" during Faurot's military service. Simpson remained in charge of the team for three years from 1943 to 1945.


1943 Montserratian general election, Electoral system
The Legislative Council had nine seats; four elected, three held by government officials and two by nominees appointed by the Governor.


1943 Montserratian general election, Results
Amongst the four elected members was Robert William Griffith, the first MLC not from the merchant and planter class.


1943 Morgan State Bears football team
The 1943 Morgan State Bears football team was an American football team that represented Morgan State College in the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) during the 1943 college football season. In their 15th season under head coach Edward P. Hurt, the Bears compiled a 5–0 record, won the CIAA championship, shut out five of seven opponents, did not allow opponents to score a points, and outscored all opponents by a total of 166 to 0. The Bears were recognized as the 1943 black college national champion.


1943 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1943 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 7th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. The championship game featured Southeast Missouri State University defeating Northwest Missouri State University 34 to 32. This was the first tournament to feature a championship game between two teams from the same state, Missouri, playing in Missouri. The 3rd place game featured the first overtime in the NAIA Final Four history when North Texas State University defeated Murray State College 59 to 55 in one overtime.


1943 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament, Awards and honors
Many of the records set by the 1943 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later:


1943 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament, 1943 NAIA bracket, 3rd place game
The third place game featured the losing teams from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988. This game would be the first 3rd place game to enter into overtime.


1943 NC State Wolfpack football team
The 1943 NC State Wolfpack football team was an American football team that represented North Carolina State University as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1943 college football season. In its seventh and final season under head coach Williams Newton, the team compiled a 3–6 record (0–4 against SoCon opponents) and was outscored by a total of 229 to 78.


1943 NCAA Basketball Tournament
The 1943 NCAA Basketball Tournament involved eight schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 24, 1943, and ended with the championship game on March 30 in New York City. A total of nine games were played, including a third place game in each region. Top-ranked Illinois declined to participate in the NCAA Tournament or NIT after three of its starters were drafted into the Army.


1943 NCAA Basketball Tournament
Wyoming, coached by Everett Shelton, won the national title with a 46–34 victory in the final game over Georgetown, coached by Elmer Ripley. Ken Sailors of Wyoming was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.


1943 NCAA Basketball Tournament, Locations, Championship Game
For the third straight year, the Municipal Auditorium was the site of the West regional games, but unlike the previous two years, it was not the site of the championship game. This honor fell for the first time to the Madison Square Garden in New York, the country's most prestigious arena at the time.


1943 NCAA Basketball Tournament, Locations, Championship Game
The Garden also hosted the East Regional for the first time, ending a streak of three straight years of it being west of the Appalachians and four straight years of being on a college campus (although the arena did, at the time, host many of the local college teams as an alternate venue). This marked the first of seven times in eight years that the tournament did not feature any college arenas, the only seven times to date for this to happen. The same span saw the same venues used every year except 1949, when Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle hosted the championship game.


1943 NCAA Golf Championship
The 1943 NCAA Golf Championship was the fifth annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate golf in the United States. The tournament was held at the Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.


1943 NCAA Golf Championship
Yale claimed the team title, the Bulldogs' first national championship (at an NCAA-sponsored event). The individual title was won by Wally Ulrich from Carleton College.


1943 NCAA Golf Championship
Contested during the midst of World War II, only seven teams contested the 1943 tournament, a decrease of six from the previous year.


1943 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The consensus 1943 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Helms Athletic Foundation, Converse, The Sporting News, and Pic Magazine.


1943 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1943 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 1943 at the Ohio State Natatorium at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio at the seventh annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


1943 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
Hosts Ohio State topped the team standings, the Buckeyes' first title in program history. Ohio State had finished in second or third place in each of the previous six championships.


1943 NCAA Track and Field Championships
The 1943 NCAA Track and Field Championships were contested at the 22nd annual NCAA-hosted track meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate track and field events in the United States. This year's events were held at Dyche Stadium at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.


1943 NCAA Track and Field Championships
USC captured their twelfth overall, as well as ninth consecutive, team championship.


1943 NCAA baseball season
The 1943 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1943. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.


1943 NCAA baseball season, Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1943 season.


1943 NCAA football rankings
One human poll comprised the 1943 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason—the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll. The Coaches' Poll began operation in 1950; in addition, the AP Poll did not begin conducting preseason polls until that same year.


1943 NCAA football rankings, AP Poll
The final AP Poll was released on November 29, at the end of the 1943 regular season, weeks before the major bowls. The AP would not release a post-bowl season final poll regularly until 1968.


1943 NFL Championship Game
The 1943 National Football League Championship Game was the 11th annual title game of the National Football League (NFL), held at Wrigley Field in Chicago on December 26 with an attendance of 34,320.


1943 NFL Championship Game
In a rematch of the previous year's game, the Western Division champion Chicago Bears (8–1–1) met the Eastern Division champion Washington Redskins (6–3–1).


1943 NFL Championship Game
The previous week, the Redskins had defeated the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds in a playoff game by a score of 28–0 to determine the champs of the east, after the teams ended the regular season with identical records. The Redskins had dropped their final three regular season games, including two to the Giants. Even though the Giants had swept the season series with Washington, the rules of the time called for a tiebreaker game (division tiebreaker games were eliminated in 1967 with the development of divisional tiebreaking rules).


1943 NFL Championship Game
The divisional playoff game pushed the championship game back to its latest ever date, and the late-December Chicago weather caused the game to be dubbed the "Ice Bowl." The Bears were favored by a touchdown, and won by twenty points, 41–21.


1943 NFL Championship Game
The crowd was smaller than the previous year's and well off the championship game record of 48,120 set in 1938, but the gross gate receipts of $120,500 set a record. In addition to the gate, radio broadcast rights to the game were sold for $5,000.


1943 NFL Championship Game
The Bears were led by quarterback Sid Luckman while Sammy Baugh was the quarterback for the Redskins. The Redskins were coached by Dutch Bergman.


1943 NFL Championship Game
The Chicago win marked the franchise's third championship in four seasons, their fourth since the institution of the NFL Championship Game in 1933, and their sixth championship overall.


1943 NFL Championship Game, Rosters, Substitutions
Bears substitutions: Pool, Berry, Steinkemper, Babartsky, Mundee, Ippolito, Logan, Matuza, McLean, Luckman, Famighetti, Nagurski, McEnulty, Nolting and Vodicka.


1943 NFL Championship Game, Rosters, Substitutions
Redskins substitutions: Piasecky, Lapka, Wilkin, Zeno, Fiorentino, Leon, Hayden, Baugh, Seymour, Moore, Gibson, Akins and Stasica.


1943 NFL Championship Game, Rosters, Officials
The NFL had only four game officials in 1943; the back judge was added in 1947, the line judge in 1965, and the side judge in 1978.


1943 NFL Championship Game, Players' shares
Each player on the Bears took home $1,135 while each member of the Redskins got $754.


1943 NFL Draft
The 1943 National Football League Draft was held on April 8, 1943, at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. This draft is the first NFL draft not to produce a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.


1943 NFL Draft, Hall of Famers
None of the players selected in the 1943 NFL draft have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.


1943 NFL playoffs
The 1943 National Football League season resulted in a tie for the Eastern Division championship between the New York Giants and Washington Redskins, requiring a one-game playoff to be played between them. This division championship game was played on December 19, 1943, at the Polo Grounds. The winner of that game then traveled to Chicago to play in the championship game against the Chicago Bears on December 26.


1943 NFL season
The 1943 NFL season was the 24th regular season of the National Football League.


1943 NFL season
Due to the exodus of players who had left to serve in World War II, the Cleveland Rams were granted permission to suspend operations for this season, while the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers merged for this one season, with the combined team (known as Phil-Pitt and called the "Steagles" by fans) playing four home games in Philadelphia and two in Pittsburgh. With only 8 teams playing, the 1943 season ties the 1932 season for the fewest teams in the league.


1943 NFL season
The season ended when the Chicago Bears defeated the Washington Redskins, 41–21, in the NFL Championship Game played the day after Christmas, the first time in NFL history that a playoff game was played so late in the year; Chicago had finished its regular season on November 28 and won the Western Division with an 8–1–1 record, but the Bears had to wait for three weeks while the Eastern Division champion was determined.


1943 NFL season
Washington and the New York Giants ended the regular season by playing against each other on two consecutive Sundays, December 5 and 12 (the second game, originally scheduled on October 3 had been postponed due to heavy rain). The Giants won both games to force a first-place tie at 6–3–1 each, but the Redskins won the playoff game and earned the right to play the Bears.


1943 NFL season
Despite the war, the league's popularity continued to grow. The league drew a cumulative 1,072,462 fans, which was fewer than 7,000 short of the record set the previous year despite the fact that 15 fewer games were played. The increased attendance was attributed to the higher competitiveness of the weaker squads.


1943 NFL season, Draft
The 1943 NFL Draft was held on April 8, 1943 at Chicago's Palmer House Hotel. With the first pick, the Detroit Lions selected runningback Frank Sinkwich from the University of Georgia.


1943 NFL season, Division races
The NFL played a shortened schedule of ten games. In the Eastern Division, the Phil-Pitt team won its first two games and led at Week Four, with 1–0–0 Washington close behind, while in the Western Division, the Bears and Packers tied 21–21 in their first game and were 2–0–1 after four weeks.


1943 NFL season, Division races
In Week Five, the division leaders played each other on October 17, with the Bears beating the Steagles 48–21 and the Redskins defeating the Packers 33–7, leaving the two winners in first place.


1943 NFL season, Division races
The Redskins (5–0–1) and Bears (7–0–1) were still unbeaten going into Week Eleven, and met in Washington on November 21, with the Redskins winning 21–7. The Redskins had their first loss in Week Twelve when they lost to Phil-Pitt, 27–14, on November 28. The Bears clinched the Western Division the same day with a 35–24 win over the Cardinals for an 8–1–1 finish. In Week Thirteen, Phil-Pitt lost its last game, falling to Green Bay 38–28, and was out of contention at 5–4–1. Meanwhile, the Giants beat the Redskins, 14–10, in New York. The next week, the Giants (5–3–1) defeated the Redskins (6–2–1) in Washington, 31–7, creating a tie in the Eastern Division. For the third straight weekend, New York and Washington faced each other, this time in a playoff, which the Redskins won 28–0.


1943 NFL season, Final standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1943 NFL season, Stadium changes
The merged Steagles split their games between Philadelphia's Shibe Park and Pittsburgh's Forbes Field


1943 NSWRFL season
The 1943 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the thirty-sixth season of Sydney's top-level rugby league competition, Australia's first. Eight teams from across the city contested during the season which lasted from April until September, culminating in the Newtown club's Grand Final victory over North Sydney.


1943 NSWRFL season, Season summary
The season is notable for Newtown turning around their second-last placing from the previous season, becoming minor premiers and later premiers. On the other hand, defending premiers Canterbury-Bankstown had a disastrous season, finishing last and picking up the wooden spoon for the first of only four occasions to date. Eastern Suburbs also slumped from the four to their lowest placing and poorest record since 1929, and were not to recover their former prominence until the late 1960s.


1943 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
For the new season, proposals were made to change the jerseys of the clubs to a single colour. With the exception of South Sydney, who had a sufficient number of their traditional myrtle and cardinal jersey's, the other clubs had each submitted a single colour to the league. St George were to play in white, Balmain in canary yellow, Eastern Suburbs in green, Canterbury-Bankstown in maroon, North Sydney in scarlet, Western Suburbs in black and Newtown in their traditional royal blue.


1943 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
Due to the on-going war, certain dyes and patterns were becoming expensive and hard to obtain. Jerseys with stripes, especially the popular "butcher stripes" that had been used by many clubs, were more expensive to manufacture. Materials and certain dyes, such as navy, were either rationed or used exclusively by the defence forces. As a result, jerseys became much simpler with the V pattern becoming a common design.


1943 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
36th seasonGround: Pratten ParkCoach: Alf BlairCaptain: Jack Whitehurst, Eric Bennett


1943 NSWRFL season, Finals
For the second year running, the minor premiership was decided by a playoff and again Balmain failed to win this important match, this time against Newtown. The following week both of these teams lost their matches to lower-ranked teams, and as a result, the victors North Sydney and St. George faced off to decide who would meet the minor premiers in the Final. North Sydney won this match which allowed them to face the side they had beaten two weeks earlier again; this time in the final. Here, Newtown won the match and claimed their third and final premiership.


1943 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership final
The Final was played at the SCG before a record crowd of 60,922, though there were thousands more on roofs and vantage points outside the ground. Because of the War all service people got in, if they were in uniform, for free. Norths were missing two stars on active service who had contributed to their season's performance – lock Harry Taylor and full-back Neville Butler who was killed in an Air Force action not long before the Final.


1943 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership final
Police closed the gates two hours before kick-off leaving ten thousand fans locked out. Latecomers offered up to £10 for seats in the stand. The match provided a great betting orgy with bets of £100 common and more than £25,000 laid before the match began.


1943 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership final
Captained by the colourful Frank "Bumper" Farrell, Newtown took on the fancied North Sydney side. The men from across the harbour were led by Frank Hyde and his Norths' side had shown no sympathy for his former club, having beaten Newtown three times already that season. Newtown countered the short-kicking tactics of the Bears into an advantage of their own, gaining a strong lead at half-time and going on to win 34–7. The 27-point margin was a grand final record. Stars of the day for Newtown were forward Charles Cahill along with backs Len Smith and Tom Kirk. It was the third premiership win for Newtown, and would turn out to be their last.


1943 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership final
Newtown 34 (Tries: Goodwin 2, Ryan, Brailey, Phillips, Narvo, Smith, Farrell. Goals: Kirk 5)


1943 Naples post-office bombing
Coordinates: The 1943 Naples post office bombing occurred on October 7, 1943, after the U.S. Fifth Army had captured Naples (October 1) and reached the Volturno River (October 6). The Palazzo delle Poste, Naples, an imposing structure, completed in 1936 is located in the center of the city, was looted by Nazi troops during the occupation. After their retreat it became occupied by families who were made homeless by the bombing and destruction heaped on the city. This happened during the insurrection that was known as the "Four days of Naples" that had taken place a few weeks earlier.


1943 Naples post-office bombing
On that morning a series of violent explosions ripped through the building and caused heavy damage to the surrounding buildings and the death of more than 100 people, including women, children and members of a 82nd Airborne Division unit. The unit was commanded by General Matthew B. Ridgway. An investigation determined that the explosion was the result of several time bombs planted by the Germans six days earlier.


1943 Naples post-office bombing
A reporter  from the Time and Life magazines, Will Lang Jr., was no more than 300 feet (90 m) from the explosion when it occurred. The shockwave threw him to the ground, and the impact sprained his right arm. A photographer for LIFE magazine, Robert Capa, and Acme News photographer Charles Corte began taking pictures of the shattered Post Office and the carnage lying in the streets. One of the physicians on hand was Brigadier General Edgar Hume whose office was across the street from the post office.


1943 National Challenge Cup
The 1943 National Challenge Cup was the 30th edition of the United States Football Association's annual open cup. Today, the tournament is known as the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Teams from the American Soccer League II competed in the tournament, based on qualification methods in their base region.


1943 National Challenge Cup
Brooklyn Hispano from Brooklyn, New York won the tournament in a replay match by defeating, Morgan Strasser of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the process.


1943 National Invitation Tournament
The 1943 National Invitation Tournament was the 1943 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.


1943 National Invitation Tournament, Selected teams
Below is a list of the eight teams selected for the tournament.


1943 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1943 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1943 college football season. In their second season under head coach John Whelchel, the Midshipmen compiled an 8–1 record, shut out three opponents and outscored all opponents by a combined score of 237 to 80. Navy was ranked No. 4 in the final AP Poll.


1943 Navy Midshipmen men's soccer team
The 1943 Navy Midshipmen men's soccer team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1943 ISFA season. It was the program's 23rd season of existence.


1943 Navy Midshipmen men's soccer team
The 1943 season saw Navy win their second ever national championship, the ISFA national championship. The title was shared with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The program was coached by former Olympic gold medalist, Tom Taylor who had been coaching the program since its inception.


1943 Navy Midshipmen men's soccer team
Due to World War II, the season was cut dramatically short, as the program only played fixtures from mid-October until late-November 1943.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska and member of the Big 6 Conference in the 1943 college football season. The team was coached by Adolph J. Lewandowski and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Before the season
New Nebraska athletic director and head football coach Lewandowski assumed control of a Nebraska program in distress. World War II was dramatically impacting the way of life in the United States, which contributed at least in part to the change in fortunes for the Cornhuskers, although the Nebraska program was fortunate to still have a team on the field at all, as at least twenty major college programs suspended their football programs in 1943 due to the impacts of the war.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Before the season
Coming off the 3–7–0 1942 season, it would not take much to post an improvement if Nebraska could overcome the setbacks dealt over the past two seasons. Former Nebraska all-American star player and assistant coach Ed Weir also returned to the coaching staff this season after five years away, increasing hopes of a Cornhusker rebirth, though overall the coaching staff was reduced by more than half of its personnel from 1942.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Abnore, Jim  TBaker, Gordon #42 HBBarrett, Jack  PLAYERBeaver, Clark  HBChadderdon, Jim  GCullen, Dick  EDawson, Richard  PLAYERDudley, Roland  PLAYEREager, Earl  HBEbers, Merle  CEllyson, Garold #45 FBEwin, Gordin #38 EGalter, Morris #17 CGissler, Bert #10 EGoldstein, Robert #20 GHansen, Jim #56 FBHazard, Frank #11 GHiatt, Harry  PLAYERHill, Bill  THinz, Robert #54 GHollins, Kenneth #49 FBJacupke, Gerald  GJanssen, Art  PLAYERJohnston, Harry  HBKearney, Phil #21 PLAYERKenfield, Ted  QBKessler, Joe #59 QB


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Kofton, Larry #27 TKops, Lyle #35 TKroger, John  PLAYERLock, Norman  TLucas, George #16 EMcDermott, Dick  EMeans, Arden  GMiller, William #31 HBMitchell, Rex #24 FBMoomaw, Bob  PLAYERPatton, Robert  GPorter, Morton #22 GRhodes, Melvin  TRoland, Harold  PLAYERRooney, Patrick #18 HBSalisbury, Randall  CSchindler, Robert #36 ESherman, Melvin #28 ESmith, Charles #52 HBStewart, Bill  PLAYERSwanson, Kenneth #12 HBTrant, Allen #19 HBTrufholz, Cyril #30 PLAYERWestover, Brooke  PLAYERWilkins, Walter  QBZlab, Dennis  G


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota
The Golden Gophers brought Nebraska to Minneapolis and provided a harsh introduction to the 1943 season for the green and depleted Cornhusker team. Scoring on their first possession and leading 13–0 by the end of the first quarter, Minnesota never looked back as they handed Nebraska the worst loss in program history, a dominating 54–0 blanking. This shutout loss came in just the second game since Nebraska had set the previous program worst-loss record when they dropped a 0–46 decision to the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks in 1942. It was the third straight loss to Minnesota, as the Cornhuskers fell to 4–19–2 in the series.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Indiana
Reeling from the record-setting loss by Minnesota the week before, Nebraska met Indiana in Lincoln for the home opener. For the second game in a row, Nebraska's foe put up a record 54 points, but unlike the previous week, the Cornhuskers managed to produce some offense and put some scores in during the second half. It was Nebraska's third straight defeat in the series, as Indiana finally evened up the series at 3–3–2 against the Cornhuskers.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
Nebraska opened conference play against Iowa State, a team that had fallen to the Cornhuskers in their last four meetings. It seemed that any hopes to stem the opening downward spiral were well-placed in this contest, and by the end of the first half the picture was much brighter than the earlier games, as the score was tied at 6–6. Nebraska was unable to score again in the second half, a difficulty not shared by Iowa State. Thus the Cyclones, by adding 21 points after the break, snapped their losing streak against Nebraska. The Cornhuskers were suffering a hard start to the season, coming away from this game with nothing but the series lead well-entrenched at 31–6–1. Although there were three earlier seasons that opened with two losses, this was the first team in Nebraska football history to post three straight opening losses.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas
The downward fortunes of the Cornhusker squad probably contributed as much as the rain to the small turnout of spectators for the game, one of the smallest ever homecoming crowds in Lincoln. For the first time in the season, Nebraska held the lead in a game when they went up 7–0 to start out. Kansas responded before halftime but failed to convert the point after. Down by one point, the Jayhawks were held off by Nebraska for the rest of the game, allowing the Cornhuskers to escape with the season's first win, by one point. The victory was Nebraska's fifth straight against Kansas, and extended the number of seasons the Jayhawks had failed to get a win from the Cornhuskers to a record 27 straight meetings as they slipped in the series to 9–38–3.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri
Missouri scored first and then never relinquished the lead. Although the Cornhuskers enjoyed their greatest offensive output of the season so far with 20 points scored on the day, the Tigers became the third team this season to score 54 points against the Cornhuskers, once again tying the most points ever scored against Nebraska. Missouri's win slightly narrowed the gap in their series with the Cornhuskers, bringing them up to 11–23–3. The Missouri–Nebraska Bell remained in Columbia for a third year.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
Playing a sloppy game in the rain, Nebraska grabbed at the advantage of starting out in the lead to try to keep up with the Wildcats. Successfully holding on to a 7–7 tie at the half, the Cornhuskers managed to outscore Kansas State 6–0 in the second half, though both teams failed to capitalize on numerous other opportunities. The Wildcats were pushed farther back in the series, to 4–22–2.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh
Due to wartime travel restrictions, the annual contest with bitter rival Pittsburgh was canceled.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
The Cornhuskers attempted to make a game of it, and in fact kept even with the Hawkeyes for a time with a mere one point 13–14 deficit, but the momentum fizzled out as Iowa ran away with three more touchdowns and the game to hang another loss on the beleaguered Nebraska squad and move to 9–20–3 overall between the teams.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
The 1943 season came to a close at Memorial Stadium with the Oklahoma Sooners visiting to wrap up the conference slate. Although historically the Sooners had struggled against Nebraska, it was a downtrodden Cornhusker squad they faced on this day. Without putting up much a fight, Nebraska slowly folded and Oklahoma pulled away to win by nineteen points, snapping their streak of four straight losses to the Cornhuskers. More importantly, it was the first time that the Sooners handed Nebraska defeat on the field in Lincoln, though at 14–6–3 to date in the series, they had a long way to go to catch Nebraska's lead.


1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season
At the end of the previous season, a disappointing 3–7–0 (.350) campaign, it did not seem as if things could get any worse. The Cornhuskers had suffered occasional off years in the past, but now there had been three straight losing seasons suffered by a program that had never even suffered two consecutive losing seasons in the history of the program, with the 1943 final record of 2–6–0 (.250) an even lower mark than before and the second-worst single-season record in Nebraska history. Nebraska's overall football record slipped to 303–116–31 (.708) as the conference record fell to 109–22–11 (.806). The Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was entering a dark time.


1943 Negro World Series
In the 1943 Negro World Series, the Washington Homestead Grays, champions of the Negro National League beat the Birmingham Black Barons, champions of the Negro American League, four games to three, with one tie. The games were played in seven different cities.


1943 Negro World Series, Background
The Negro American League held a Championship Series for the first time, matching the champion of the first half of the season with the second half champion. Neither league would have a postseason series to determine the participant in the World Series until 1948, the last held Negro World Series (both the American and National Leagues would hold a series, which coincidentally saw Birmingham and Homestead win the pennant).


1943 Negro World Series, Background
Box scores are scarce for the series, but the Black Barons narrowly won the series in five games by winning the final two games to beat the Chicago American Giants, winning Games 2, 4, 5 by scores of 16-5, 4-1, and 1-0 after losing Game 1 3-2 and Game 3 5-4.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The pitching match-up would see Alfred Saylor pitch a five hitter for the Barons, while the Grays' Johnny Wright and Ray Brown would give up eleven combined hits. The Barons struck first in the top of the 1st inning when Felix McLaurin hit a double past Grays' 1st baseman Buck Leonard. Tommy Sampson hit a single to right field, scoring McLaurin, and then was thrown out trying to steal second.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Clyde "Little Splo" Spearman hit a double, advanced on a Piper Davis single, and then scored after Grays' catcher Josh Gibson bobbled a low pitch after he slipped in the mud. In the bottom of the 1st, Cool Papa Bell hit a triple for the Grays and then scored on a Buck Leonard sacrifice fly. The score stood 2-1 with the Barons in the lead heading into the 2nd. In the 4th, Barons' outfielder Lester Lockett doubled and scored on a Leonard "Sloppy" Lindsay single, bringing the score to 3-1.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The next score would come in the top of the 7th, when both Hoss "Horse" Walker and  Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe singled to reach base. Grays' shortstop, Sam Bankhead boggled a grounder by McLaurin which would allow Walker to score. The game stood at 4-1 going into the 9th inning. The Grays had a late 9th inning surge. With one out, Saylor ended up walking both Leonard and Gibson. Howard Easterling stepped up and hit a single, which would score Leonard. However Easterling tried to turn his single into a double and was tagged out on his way to second. Sam Bankhead hit a fly ball that clinched the victory for Birmingham.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Five combined pitchers were used for a game that went twelve innings before being called due to midnight curfew, matching Gentry Jessup for Birmingham against Spoon Carter of Homestead. Gentry Jessup had a 5-4 lead in the ninth for the Barons, but he allowed a single to Howard Easterling to leadoff the inning. A double by Sam Bankhead tied the game at 5. Jessup was replaced after getting a double play for Alvin Gipson. Jessup allowed ten hits with five runs scored on three strikeouts and four walks. Alvin Gipson went 3+1⁄3 innings and allowed two hits with one walk and two strikeouts.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The only serious threat in the extra innings was in the tenth, when the Grays got runners on second and first on a hit by Cool Papa Bell and an bunt-error by Jerry Benjamin. But Buck Leonard, Josh Gibson, and Easterling all committed outs to strand the runners. As for the Grays, starter Spoon Carter had lasted just six innings while allowing four runs to score on seven hits while striking out five. He was replaced for Edsall Walker, who pitched five innings and allowed one run on four hits while walking six and striking out three. Johnny Wright was sent to pitch the twelfth inning, and he allowed just one hit with no runs.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 3
For the first time since the 1925 Colored World Series, there would be a Series with at two games that went to extra innings. Game 3 matched Johnny Markham for Birmingham against Roy Partlow for Homestead.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Homestead struck first in the second inning, starting with a walk to Sam Bankhead. This was followed by a single by Vic Harris. With Robert Gaston at bat, he hit a single to center field. When fielder Felix McLaurin went to field it, he would commit an error that helped to score both Bankhead and Harris after the ball went over third base. Catcher Ted Radcliffe got the ball and threw to home plate, but with no one at the plate, Gaston raced home with no trouble.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The game remained quiet until the sixth inning. Birmingham started it off with a leadoff single by Felix McLaurin that went off the fingertip of Partlow's hand. McLaurin would get to third on a groundout and a Clyde Spearman single. Lester Lockett then hit a single to right field that made the score 3-1 and resulted in Partlow being pulled from the game. He had pitched 5+1⁄3 innings and allowed five hits while striking a batter out and walking one. Ray Brown would step in and get the final two outs, but an error on a ball hit by Leonard Lindsay by shortstop Sam Bankhead scored Spearman and Lockett.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The game stayed silent until the eleventh inning. Bankhead started the inning with a leadoff single. Vic Harris made a sacrifice bunt that resulted in Bankhead getting to third when Lindsay made an error at first base. Josh Gibson was brought in to pinch hit for Gaston, and he was intentionally walked to load the bases. Brown, batting in the nine-hole spot, hit a ball to first that resulted in a force-out at the plate for one out. Cool Papa Bell would go to bat and then hit a ball to right field for a walk-off single to win it for Homestead.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Brown ultimately allowed no hits for 5+2⁄3 innings while getting a walk and four strikeouts. Markham threw 10+1⁄3 innings and allowed four runs on nine hits with a strikeout and five walks.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Johnny Wright was sent out by the Grays to start against Gready McKinnis for Birmingham, and Wright would outduel both McKinnis and John Huber, sent out to put the fire of what proved to be a blowout. A walk to Josh Gibson led to the first run in the second inning, as Howard Easterling hit a double to left to score him from first. With two outs in the third, Jerry Benjamin hit a single and got to second base on an error by Tommy Sampson. Buck Leonard then hit a triple to score Benjamin and make it 2-0. In the fifth, Cool Papa Bell hit a single to start the inning and then got to third base on a Benjamin bunt to the pitcher that went for an error and another bunt by Leonard. A flyout by Gibson scored Bell and made it 3-0.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Grays set the fire for six runs in the sixth, beginning with a groundball by Jud Wilson that got him to first when the first baseman made an error. Vic Harris then drew a walk before Wright bunted his way to first base. With the bases loaded, Bell hit a double to left that scored two runs. An intentional walk was later issued to Buck Leonard before Gibson returned the favor with a single to right to score two runs. A single by Howard Easterling score another run, while a groundout by Matt Carlisle scored Gibson (who had stolen third base) to close the scoring.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Wright allowed just five hits while walking six and striking out three. McKinnis allowed three runs on five hits in five innings with three walks and two strikeouts before Huber was sent to pitch the remaining four innings. He allowed six runs on five hits, two walks, and one strikeout.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Johnny Wright was matched against Gready McKinnis in a rematch of Game 4, and it once again proved a wash. Wright threw his second complete game while allowing no runs on eight hits with three walks and four strikeouts, while McKinnis lasted 6+2⁄3 innings and allowed eight runs on seven hits with five walks and six strikeouts before being taken out for Johnny Markham, who allowed one hit with two walks in 2+1⁄3 innings.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 7
This was the first and only Negro World Series that had three games go to extra innings (by the time the Series ended, the two teams had played for a combined 79 innings, the longest for any best-of-seven series). Homestead sent Roy Partlow against Birmingham's Johnny Markham.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 7
There were a handful of hits and baserunners on for both teams, but bad timing proved key to a shutout for ten innings. It was only in the eighth inning that either team had two runners on base; in the eighth, Jud Wilson had a leadoff single and Partlow was walked with two out, but Cool Papa Bell failed to score the runners on his groundball that resulted in a quelled threat. They had the next chance in the ninth when Jerry Benjamin and Howard Easterling hit singles. However, Wilson would hit an out to end the inning. Birmingham responded with two singles in the tenth, but they also could not score them home. In total, 19 baserunners were left combined by both teams.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 7
The game was decided in the eleventh inning. With two outs, Leonard Lindsay hit a triple to left field. Ed Steele, batting in the eight-hole spot, hit a single to right to give the Barons a walk-off victory and even the Series up at three. Partlow had pitched 10+2⁄3 innings and allowed ten hits with two walks and six strikeouts, while Markham had allowed eight hits in eleven innings with a walk and two strikeouts.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 8
The decisive Game 8 proved to be a tight affair decided by a late inning comeback that relied on the bullpens. It matched Johnny Wright of Homestead versus Alfred Saylor of Birmingham. The Grays held the lead first in a hurry. Cool Papa Bell hit a leadoff single and then got to second on a sacrifice bunt before Buck Leonard got him home on a single.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 8
Birmingham struck back in the third inning. Leonard Lindsay drew a leadoff walk, and Felix McLaurin drew a walk after an out, while Tommy Sampson hit a single to load the bases for Clyde Spearman. He would hit a single that tied the game at one. Lester Lockett would it a flyball to right field that resulted in a sacrifice fly that gave the Barons a 2-1 lead. They added to their lead in the fifth, with McLaurin reaching on a walk before stealing second base. A single by Spearman would cause him to score when catcher Josh Gibson committed an error.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 8
The Grays responded one inning later, starting with a double by Leonard and a single by Gibson. With one out, a groundball hit by Jud Wilson would get Gibson out but score Leonard from third base. Birmingham struck in the bottom half after getting singles by Ed Steele, Piper Davis, and Saylor, with the latter hit driving in Steele. Wright had gone six innings and allowed six hits with four runs on nine strikeouts before being taken out (replaced by Ray Brown, hitting for him in the seventh inning). Brown was sent to pitch while the team was trailing 4-2, and he would hold the fort for the closing three innings, allowing no runs on two hits.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 8
Birmingham, six outs from victory, would implode in the eighth inning. It started with a walk to Benjamin, who was then forced out when Buck Leonard hit a grounder to right fielder Spearman. Josh Gibson hit a single to center that would result in Leonard getting to third and Gibson to second base when fielder McLaurin misplayed the ball. With Howard Easterling up, he hit a single that would score both runners and even the game at 4. One out later, Vic Harris was up to bat. He hit a single that got Easterling to third, and he proceeded to steal second base. That set the stage for Sam Bankhead, who hit a single to right field that scored both runners and broke the tie.


1943 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 8
Saylor had pitched eight innings for the Barons while allowing ten hits and six runs with four walks before being taken out (replaced when it came time for him to bat in the eighth). Gready McKinnis was sent to pitch the ninth inning of a two-run deficit, but it would not end well. He allowed Benjamin to reach on an error committed by himself. A sacrifice bunt was then followed by a double by Josh Gibson to score the runner, and an error by Spearman on Easterling's groundball scored Gibson and made it 8-4. Birmingham went down in four batters, with Lockett committing the final out as Homestead clinched the championship.


1943 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
The 1943 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, known for the final three games as the Flying Wolves and Flying Wolfpack, was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada as an independent during the 1943 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Jim Aiken, the team compiled a 4–1–1 record.


1943 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
Marion Motley, who was later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, played for the Wolf Pack from 1941 to 1943. He suffered a knee injury in 1943 and returned to his home in Canton, Ohio, to work after dropping out of school.


1943 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
Bill Mackrides also played for the 1943 Wolf Pack. He later played seven years of professional football in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL).


1943 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
On October 8, 1943, due to the loss of players to military service, the Nevada football team merged with the football team from the Reno Army Air Base team at Lemmon Valley. The combination of university and military football squads was reported to be "unprecedented in the history of the nation's wartime football." Because of an Army ruling that prohibited soldiers from playing on college teams, the combined team, known as the "Flying Wolves" or "Flying Wolfpack", played under the air base colors, and the University of Nevada players were deemed to have been absorbed into the air base squad. Jim Aiken remained head coach of the combined team with Lieutenants Dayton Doeler and Edward O'Neill acting as assistant coaches.


1943 New Jersey gubernatorial election
The 1943 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1943. Republican nominee Walter Evans Edge defeated Democratic nominee Vincent J. Murphy with 55.20% of the vote.


1943 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team
The 1943 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) as a member of the Border Conference during the 1943 college football season. The team was drawn from the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) and was sometimes referred to as the ASTP Aggies. In their first year under head coach Maurice Moulder, the Aggies compiled a 4–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 166 to 75. The team played its home games at Quesenberry Field in Las Cruces, New Mexico.


1943 New Mexico Lobos football team
The 1943 New Mexico Lobos football team represented the University of New Mexico as an independent during the 1943 college football season. In their second season under head coach Willis Barnes, the Lobos compiled a 3–2 record and were outscored by opponents by a total of 85 to 59.


1943 New Year Honours
The 1943 New Year Honours were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 29 December 1942.


1943 New Year Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1943 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 1943 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours in recognition of war service by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1942 and the beginning of 1943, and were announced on 1 January 1943. No civilian awards were made.


1943 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1943 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
The 9th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, announced on 28 December 1943, honored the best filmmaking of 1943.


1943 New York Giants (MLB) season
The 1943 New York Giants season was the franchise's 61st season. The team finished in eighth place in the National League with a 55–98 record, 49½ games behind the St. Louis Cardinals.


1943 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1943 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1943 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1943 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1943 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1943 New York Giants season
The 1943 New York Giants season was the franchise's 19th season in the National Football League.


1943 New York Giants season, Game Summaries, Week Eight: at Detroit Lions
Note: As of the end of the 2019 NFL season, this is the most recent 0–0 tie in NFL history.


1943 New York Giants season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.