Colgate Football Collection

Not affiliated with Colgate or the athletic department. Former scout team DB. Scored 6 points in 2008 Spring Game. All opinions are my own.

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Anthony Shine was shot down in Vietnam on Dec 2, 1972 and declared dead on Jan 7, 1980. His body was found in 1995.

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James Gribbon was missing in action after his plane disappeared in the Himalayas in August 1944. He was declared dead on April 8, 1946.

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John ‘Jack’ Shaughnessy Jr was shot down in Vietnam and declared dead on Feb 3, 1963.

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Edmund Burke was killed in action when the USS Henley was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Finschhafen, New Guinea on October 3, 1943.

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William Burckhalter was killed on June 11, 1942 after anti-aircraft fire downed his plane in the South Pacific.

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John ‘Jack’ Hart was wounded in action on March 10, 1945 in the Philippines. He passed away 3 days later in an Australian hospital.

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Anthony LaBella was killed in a plane crash in Armstrong, Ontario, Canada on August 12, 1942. He was an NY native, but flew with the RCAF.

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Frank Keller was killed in a blimp crash at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, NJ in May 1944.

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Abram Robertson Frye was killed in an airplane collision near Lincoln, England on July 9, 1918.

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Don Wemple (right) was killed in action in June 1943 when his transport was damaged by enemy fire traveling from India to China. He spoke his last words to his Colgate football co-captain John Lucy: “I’m all right now, coach, put me back in the game.”

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Dan Binneweg was killed in action on December 23, 1942 over Algeria. He wrote this letter the week before he died...

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Michael Joseph Hayes was killed in action Oct. 14, 1918 in Saint-Juvin, France. He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for multiple acts of valor and is buried in
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John 'Jack' Scott was listed as Missing in Action in early 1944 after his plane went down. He was never found.

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Robinson Billings was killed in action on January 11, 1945 when his B-29 was shot down near Singapore.

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Dick East was killed in action when his P-40 was shot down over Tunisia on April 4, 1943. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Air Medal.

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Jack Clifford was killed in action on August 24, 1944 while serving in France. Andy Kerr said this about him: “I can’t tell you what I’d have given to see that boy come back alive and well. And I wouldn’t have cared if he never played football again.”

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As I do every Memorial Day weekend, the following posts will name Colgate Football players who have been killed in action while serving in the armed forces.

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@BarstoolBigCat Read this @BarstoolBigCat https://t.co/W4oZjyz9Et then read the rest of Kurson’s books

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@goatcollect Presumably, no jersey will make it to the market with a debut patch on it (or special game patch or whatever). How will that impact value/photo matching of the jersey itself?

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