| Year: | 1944 |
| Team: | Camp Peary Pirates |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Independent |
| Record: | 5–2 |
| Head Coach: | Red Strader |
The 1944 Camp Peary Pirates football team represented Camp Peary during the 1944 college football season. The team compiled a 5–2 record.[1] Red Strader, who was coach of the Saint Mary's Gaels football team before the war, was the head coach.
The team garnered attention when, shortly before the season began, the Navy assigned eight former NFL players to Camp Peary. The eight included halfbacks Joe Vodicka, Andy Uram, Len Janiak, and Bob Morrow, fullback Joe Bokant, center Al Matuza, and tackle Bob Bjorklund. Other notable players on the team included ends Ralph Schilling and Gregg Browning and tackle Russ Letlow who was later named to the NFL 1930s All-Decade Team.[2]
The Richmond Army Air Base Thunderbyrds originally scheduled two games with Camp Peary, on September 23 and October 29, but cancelled those games in early September.[3]
In the final Litkenhous Ratings, March Field ranked 39th among the nation's college and service teams and eighth out of 63 United States Army teams with a rating of 94.2.[4] [5]
See also: 1944 NCAA football rankings.