W. H. Maybaum at the request of a number of men who had returned from the Pacific battle area.

Maybaum noted that 75% of the 40 men on the team had seem more than a year overseas.

[2] With the San Francisco Dons football program idle due to the war, the Pilots used the Dons' uniforms and its coaches, Al Tassi and Bill Howard.

[3] Emlen Tunnell, later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, played for the team.

[2] In the final Litkenhous Ratings, San Francisco Coast Guard ranked 95th among the nation's college and service teams and fourth of out six United States Coast Guard teams with a rating of 74.1.