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