Season: Autumn 1942

Robert D Hopfer

Home Town

Buffalo, New York

Games

ETO FC Autumn 1942 – Hale 9 Yarvard 7 – Robert Hopfer scored a rushing touchdown which put Yarvard 7-6 ahead after the successful Point After Touchdown attempt in the first game of the European Theater of Operations Football Championship in Northern Ireland in Autumn 1942, although Yarvard were to lose the game 7-9 in the end.

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 14 1942 – Ravenhill, Belfast, Northern Ireland – Hale 9 Yarvard 7” Touchdown in Europe: How American Football Came to the Old Continent. pg. 49-51.