VARSITY FOOTBALL
''Remember Pearl Harbor" will live long in the minds of the
football team and Coach Ben Winkelman. They were eating
breakfast in a Honolulu hotel on that fateful morning of
December 7 when Japanese airmen dropped their first loads
of bombs on the city and nearby Pearl Harbor. The team
had just arrived in Honolulu and were practicing for games
with University of Hawaii and Willamette university. These
games were never played.
Coach Winkelman and the boys hustled down to the Honolulu police station to volunteer for police duty. They were
sworn in immediately and worked until they boarded ship
for the trip home.
Parents and friends were pleasantly surprised on Christmas afternoon when the Lurline, with the team on board,
docked in San Francisco. Here again the team showed that
they were real Spartans by taking care of the many wounded
on board. For this service Colonel Frank Knox, Secretary of
the Navy, wrote a personal letter of commendation to Dr.
T. W. MacQuarrie praising the team.
