United States Air Force in Europe (USAFE) Football League France Sports Conference 1953-1955

USAFE Football Logo [Ref: 8]

USAFE France SC 1953

PWLT
Laon Rangers10820
Chateauroux Sabres9621
Chaumont Mudhens6420
Fontainbleu Foresters6240
Bordeaux Cardinals6240
Orly Comets10280
United States Air Force in Europe (USAFE) Football League France Sports Conference 1953 [Ref: 1]

USAFE France SC 1954

PWLT
Chateauxroux Sabres9630
Chaumont Mudhens10631
Bordeaux Cardinals6141
Laon Rangers7151
Orly Comets5050
United States Air Force in Europe (USAFE) Football League France Sports Conference 1954 [Ref: 1]

USAFE France SC 1955

PWLT
Evreux Normans8710
Chambley Desert Rats7412
Laon Rangers7520
Etain Pioneers8431
CAMA Sabres (Chateauroux)9342
SHAPE Indians8341
Chaumont Mudhens9351
Bordeaux Cardinals9261
Toul Tigers9090
United States Air Force in Europe (USAFE) Football League France Sports Conference 1955 [Ref: 1]

Report

The United States Air Force in Europe (USAFE) France District / Sports Conference title was won by Laon Rangers (1953), Chateauroux Sabres (1954), Evreux Normans (1955), Toul Tigers (1956 to 1957), Laon Rangers again (1958) and SHAPE Indians (1959 to 1960), after which the France District was merged into the Continental Sports Conference along with the teams based in Germany.

The United States Air Force in Europe Football League (USAFE – pronounced “You-Safe”) was the League for Air Force Personnel stationed at Cold War Military Bases in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy & Greece.

There were three Conferences: UK Sports Conference, Continental Sports Conference (Germany & France) and Mediterranean Sports Conference (Italy & Greece). While the MSC was a competitive Conference, the Finals were usually played between the Winners of the UKSC and the CSC.

Following the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, the USAFE Football League was discontinued and the only US Military Football now played in the UK is High School Football at Lakenheath, London Central (High Wycombe), Alconbury & Menwith Hill. [1]

The United States ARmy EURope played a separate League (USAREUR). [6]

The Ramstein Rams, Alconbury Spartans, Burtonwood Bullets & Weathersfield Raiders of the UK Sports Conference except the RamsteinR Rams (Continental Sports Conference) all played matches in Ireland, including one at Croke Park in aid of the Irish Red Cross. [3-7]

References

Bibliography

[1] Crawford, Russ (2016) “Le Football: A History of American Football in France”. pg. 87-110. Published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & Lincoln.

[2] Foglio, Massimo & Ford, Mark L. (2017) Touchdown in Europe – How American Football Came to the Old Continent. pg. 103-105. Published by the author.

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

Newspapers

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

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

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

Articles

[7] 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, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30002410.

Images

[8] USAFE Football (2020) USAFE-Football-Coin_Hat-5 [Internet] Available from: http://www.usafefootball.com/USAFE-Football-Coin_Hat-5.jpg [Accessed 18 July 2020]

Newspapers

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Todd Zboyan & Tim Leadingham.

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Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

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Last Updated: 18 July 2020

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