Otto Graham

Life and Orange County connections

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1. August 1944 All-American Otto Graham reports to the Pre-Flight School as a cadet Otto Graham, Northwestern's All-American football and basketball player, arrived in Chapel Hill as a naval aviation cadet with the 58th Battalion and joined the Cloudbuster football squad, which opened practice under Lieut. Comdr. Glenn Killinger with Lieut. Paul Bryant coaching the line. People: Otto Graham Place: Navy Pre-Flight School, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Glenn Killinger, Paul BryantCloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), August 19, 1944, p. 1
2. by December 15, 1944 Otto Graham becomes the first Pre-Flight football player named to a national All-America service team Cadet Otto Graham, the Northwestern star who quarterbacked the 1944 Cloudbusters, was named to the Associated Press All-America service eleven, the first player from the Chapel Hill school so honored. Six other Cloudbusters got honorable mention. People: Otto Graham Place: Navy Pre-Flight School, University, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill schoolCloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), December 15, 1944, p. 4