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 Ridlon to halfback in the same backfield with Jim Brown and registered a school record 3 touchdown receptions in one game. As a senior in a game against Holy Cross, he scored in three different ways (reception, run and interception). In 1990, he was inducted into the Syracuse University Sports Hall of Fame. Ridlon was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the fourth round (39th overall) of the 1957 NFL Draft. In his second season, he was a starter at [Safety (American and Canadian football position)|safety]], registering 4 interceptions and 2 fumble recoveries. He would later play mostly as a