1944 Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets football team (right halfback, Minnesota), Jim Mello (fullback, Notre Dame), Don Lesher (halfback), Don Manglold (Indiana), Bob Hanlon, and Ara Parseghian (Miami (OH)), ends Cecil Souders and George Young (Georgia), and linemen Pete Krivonak (guard), Jesse Hahn (guard), and Carmen Izzo (center). 1944 Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets football team The 1944 Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets football team represented Great Lakes Naval Training Station during the 1944 college football season. The team compiled a 9–2–1 record, outscored opponents by a total of 348 to 134, and was ranked No. 17 in the final AP Poll. In April 1944, Paul Brown, who coached at
Jim Brown old and just ending his elite career. Harris clocked in at 5.16 seconds, and Brown in at 5.72 seconds. In 1965, Brown was the first African-American to announce a televised boxing match in the United States, for the Terrell-Chuvalo fight, and is also credited with then first suggesting a career in boxing promotion to Bob Arum. Brown's autobiography, published in 1989 by Zebra Books, was titled "Out of Bounds" and was co-written with Steve Delsohn. He was a subject of the book "Jim: The Author's Self-Centered Memoir of the Great Jim Brown", by James Toback. In 1993, Brown was hired