United States Air Force in Europe | United Kingdom Sports Conference 1951-1993

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Champions 1951-1993

YearUKSC Champions
1951Burtonwood Bullets
1952Burtonwood Bullets
1953London Rockets
1954London Rockets
1955London Rockets
1956London Rockets
1957Burtonwood Bullets
1958Alconbury Spartans
1959Chicksands Fighting Chicks
1960 
1961Alconbury Spartans
1962Chicksands Fighting Chicks
1963Wethersfield Raiders
1964Chicksands fighting Chicks
1965Wethersfield Raiders
1966Wethersfield Raiders
1967Bentwaters Phantoms
1968Bentwaters Phantoms
1969Bentwaters Phantoms
1970Upper Heyford Sky Kings
1971Upper Heyford Sky Kings
1972Upper Heyford Sky Kings
1973Upper Heyford Sky Kings
1974Upper Heyford Sky Kings
1975Bentwaters Phantoms
1976Bentwaters Phantoms
1977Chicksands Fighting Chicks
1978Chicksands Fighting Chicks
1979Lakenheath Eagles
1980Lakenheath Eagles
1981Upper Heyford Sky Kings
1982Upper Heyford Sky Kings
1983Upper Heyford Sky Kings
1984Bentwaters Phantoms
1985Upper Heyford Sky Kings
1986Chicksands Fighting Chicks
1987Lakenheath Eagles
1988Lakenheath Eagles
1989Lakenheath Eagles
1990Lakenheath Eagles
1991Lakenheath Eagles
1992Lakenheath Eagles
1993Lakenheath Eagles

Reference: [11]

Report

The United States Armed Forces in Europe played an American Football League from 1946-1993, with personnel staioned in Nuclear Air Force Bases in the United Kingdom, Germany & Mediterranean. There were three conferences: United Kingdom Sports Conference, Continental Sports Conference & Mediterranean Sports Conference. Although the MSC was a competitive Conference the USAFE Championship game was on all but three occasions between the winners of the UKSC & CSC.[11]

UKSC teams were: Alconbury Spartans, Bentwaters Phantoms, Burtonwood Bullets, Chicksands Fighting Chicks, Fairford Falcons, Greenham Common Crusaders (Pirates until 1988), High Wycombe Bucks, London Rockets, Mildenhall Marauders, Upper Heyford Sky Kings, Wethersfield Raiders.

Burtonwood Bullets, Wethersfield Raiders & Alconbury Spartans played matches in Ravenhill, Belfast & Croke Park, Dublin in aid of the Irish Red Cross in the 1950s & 1960s. Lakenheath Eagles played a game against Dublin Celts in the 1980s. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

References

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Websites

[1] Irish American Football Association (2016) Journey to Thirty [Internet] Available from: http://www.americanfootball.ie/journeyto-thirty/ [Accessed 08 August 2016]

[2] Irish American Football Association (2016) History of US Teams playing in Ireland [Internet] Available from: http://www.americanfootball.ie/history-of-us-teams-playing-in-ireland/ [Accessed 22 November 2016]

[3] Irish American Football Association (2016) History [Internet] Available from: http://www.americanfootball.ie/iafl/history.htm [Accessed 26 October 2016]

[4] Lucky Show (2016) American Football in Ireland [Internet] Available from: http://www.luckyshow.org/football/Shamrock%20Bowl.htm [Accessed 5 June 2017]

[5] Dublin Town – Article by Gerry Farrell (2016) College Football Classic Ireland’s Relationship with American Football [Internet] Available from: http://www.dublintown.ie/irelands-relationship-with-american-football/ [Accessed 7 May 2018]

Sources

[6] Lensmen Photographic Archive (2012) . “The 1950s Ireland in Pictures”. pg. 36. The O’Brien Press Ltd. Dublin, Ireland.

[7] Anon. (1942) . “Photo caption: American Football att Ravenhill”. Belfast News-Letter. 16 November 1942. pg. 6.

[8] Anon. (1954) . “Photo caption”. Northern Whig. 18 November 1954. pg. 6.

[9] Anon. (1966) . “Rams bring 45 ‘Rough Scrappers”. Belfast Telegraph. 1 September 1966. pg. 18.

[10] Magee, Damian. “English Beer and American Football: Exporting American Football as a Cultural Commodity to the British Isles.” Irish Journal of American Studies, vol. 7, 1998, pp. 121–148. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/30002410.

[11] Britball Now (2016) US Miltary Football in the UK [Internet] Available from: http://www.britballnow.co.uk/history-index/us-military-football-in-the.html [Accessed 22 March 2018]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tim Leadingham & Liam Mulcahy.

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Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

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Last Updated: 5 March 2019

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