Camp Kilmer Eagles Football History

Stelton, New Jersey (near New Brunswick)

• Camp Kilmer •

1942 (2-2-1) Head coach: Staff Sergeant Jack Bremmer 
11/8   W 20-0       Highland Park Trojans, at Johnson Park Field, Highland Park, N.J.
11/16  W 10-0       Jersey City Destroyers, at Johnson Park Field
11/20  L  0-12   at Rutgers JV  ["Camp Kilmer previously undefeated"]
11/29  L  7-34   at Scranton University, at Wilkes-Barre 1,200
12/5   canceled     St. Mary's of Bayonne, at Johnson Park Field
12/13  T  6-6       Plainfield Saracans, at Johnson Park Field

1943 (2-6-0)
10/2   canceled  at Brooklyn Tigers (NFL)  [canceled by Dodgers for better game]
10/    L 13-15      Plainfield Sarazens (NJ)
10/9   L  6-16      West Point JV, at Rutgers Intramural Sports Field  5,000
10/14  L  0-12   at Rutgers  [SCRIMMAGE]
10/15  L  0-12   at Rutgers "B"  (could these 2 games be the same one??)
10/23  L  3-62   at Brown University  5,000
10/30  W 13-12   at C.C.N.Y., Lewisohn Stadium  att: 500
11/14  L 12-26      Lakehurst Naval Air Station
11/21  W 47-7       Brooklyn College (H), at Rutgers  [originally scheduled for 11/20]
11/27 not played    Holy Cross

1944 (0-1-0) Head Coach: George Weeks (Ala.)
        Brooklyn Bond Bowl
10/2   no game      Brooklyn Tigers (ex-Dodgers) (NFL), at Ebbets Field  (night)
  [Above game changed, Kilmer bolstered w/ other Army players as Service All-Star team (incl. Sid Luckman) for this game.]
10/2   Brooklyn Tigers 48 - 14 Service All Stars, Ebbets Field (night)  31,880
10/7   L  0-46      West Point JV (H), at Rutgers
  Camp Kilmer drops football due to transfer of key players, October 11.
10/14  canceled  at Bainbridge Naval Training Center Commodores  [Bainbridge hosts Camden Blue Devils instead]
10/    canceled     Naval Training Station
11/11  canceled     Villanova
11/    canceled     Camp Detrick, Maryland

1947 (3-1-1) 1st Army Conference Championship
9/28   T  0-0    at Fort Monmouth
10/2   W  7-0    at West Point Special Services (West Point Post) att: 800
10/31  W  6-0       Fort Monmouth (H)  2,500
11/    W 19-0       Fort Jay
11/21  W  6-0       1802 Special Regiment, West Point (H) [end 1st Army League undefeated & unscored upon]
12/6   L  7-41   at Fort Belvoir Engineers, Va. (2nd Army Champs)
        Post-Season game:
12/13   ?        at Kindley Field Flyers, Bermuda

1948 1st Army Conference Champions
.      W 18-0       Fort Jay
.      T  7-7       West Point Post
11/5   W 20-0    at Fort Monmouth  [for championship] (night)  [Kilmer now 4-0-1]
11/19   ?           Fort Monmouth (H)

1949
9/22   L  7-26      St. Benedict's College
10/7   L         at Fort Monmouth  W?
.      W            Signal Corp Photographers, Astoria
Touch football Tournament, at Fort Adams:
11/7   W 19-0       Fort Hamilton
        First Army Corp Touch Football Championship
11/10  W 31-0       Fort Devens [Final round, last game of double elimination]

1950

1951
   [Camp Kilmer takes over 9 game schedule of Fort Monmouth who drop football before season.]
10/20  L  0-28      Princeton Junior Varsity (H)
11/10                      5th Division Red Devils (Mississippi)
11/17                      Fort Eustis Wheels (Virginia)

Notes:
	•Named for Sgt. Joyce Kilmer, killed in action June 10, 1918. One time resident near Stelton, poet who wrote the poem that begins: “I think I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree...”
	•Camp Kilmer opened June 15, 1942.
	•Base closed 1997.

• Army Specialized Training Program at Rutgers •

1944 Head Coach: George Little
11/18  L 12-18   at Rutgers University att: 500