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 of Jacqueline Bisset. More typical was "El Condor" (1970), a Western shot in Spain by John Guillermin, also for National General. The release of "Shaft" (1971) led the rise of blaxploitation movies. Brown starred in several of the genre: "Slaughter" (1972), a huge hit for AIP; "Black Gunn" (1972) for Columbia; "Slaughter's Big Rip-Off" (1973); "The Slams" (1973), back at MGM; "I Escaped from Devil's Island" (1973); and "Three the Hard Way" (1974) with Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly. He did a spaghetti Western with Williamson, "Take a Hard Ride" (1975). The popularity of blaxploitation ebbed in the mid 70s