Page 184 of the La Torre yearbook regarding the San Jose State College Varsity Football team at the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese. Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL, 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3. 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.
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