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Games

14 November 1942 – ETO FC Game 1 – Ravenhill, Belfast, NIR – Hale 9 Yarvard 7 – Jay Wright was Quarterback for the Yarvard Crimson Tide at Ravenhill, Belfast for the opening game of the European Theater of Operations Football Championship in Northern Ireland in Autumn 1942 – Yarvard lost the game 7-9 despite Wright putting Yarvard 7-6 up in the second quarter with a successful Point After Touchdown kick.

21 November 1942 – ETO FC Game 2 – Inver  Park, Larne, NIR – Yarvard 14 Tech 0 – Jay Wright caught an Interception off Tech’s Ernest Passimoni and returned it 25 yards for a touchdown, putting the Crimson Tide 14-0 up and sealing the game for the Yarvard team.

References

[1] WartimeNI (2019) The Yarvard squad in Belfast [Internet] Available from: https://wartimeni.com/wwiini-story-american-football-ravenhill-programme-07/ [Accessed 23 August 2019]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

[1] Massimo Foglio with Mark L. Ford (2015) “Second World War Part One: Americans on the British Isles 1942-1943 – November 21 1942 – Inver Park, Larne, Northern Ireland – Yarvard 14 Tech Fighting Irish 0” Touchdown in Europe: How American Football Came to the Old Continent. pg. 51-52.