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508TH FOOTBALL TEAM - 1946

[Abilene Reporter-News, Abilene, TX, Friday September 20, 1946, Page 9]
Ex-Midland Back
Coaches In Germany

   MIDLAND [TX], Sept 19 --- (Spl) ---
Jimmy Watson, tall, big and rugged Paratrooper in Germany, is getting in some football.
   Jimmy, former all-district end at Midland High and Texas University star, is coaching and playing with the Red Devils, football team of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, an occupational unit in the European theater.
   The Devils have a tough schedule in the theater and the Army football circuit is always rough.
   Watson is one of three coaches of the Devils.
   The Devils started with a squad of160 men, which has been pruned to the best 60.


[The Fresno Bee, Fresno, CA, Saturday, November 10 1945, Page 6]
Red Infantry Wins

   FRANKFURT, Nov 10 --- AP --- The Blue devils of the 3rd Infantry Regiment squeezed out a 2- to 12 triumph over the hitherto unbeaten 508th Parachute Regiment to win the western Germany football championship,
   General Dwight D. Eisenhower and members of his staff were among the spectators.


[The Kingsport News, Kingsport, TN, Saturday, November 10 1945, Page 2]
GERMANY GRIDIRON CHAMPS

Frankfurt --- (AP) --- The Blue Devils of the Third Infantry Regiment squeezed out a 20-12 muddy field triumph over the hitherto unbeaten 508th Parachute Regimen6t Friday to win the Western Germany football championship.


[Chattanooga Daily Times, Chattanooga, TN, 23 Oct 1945, Tue, Page 9]

5 L. D. (Spitty) Ellis is kind enough to send a copy of Stars and Stripes, Germany edition, in which Frank Grigonis makes the top headline for leading the 508th Paratroopers over USFET, 22-14, at Frankfurt last Monday , . . Spitty says he and Grig live about two blocks apart. ... Adds that Grig ran the ball and directed the team in a manner Scrappy Moore would have loved. . . . And scored on Scrappy's "26" play. 

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