1945 Northwestern Wildcats football team
| 1945 Northwestern Wildcats football | |
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| Conference | Big Ten Conference |
| 1945 record | 4–4–1 (3–3–1 Big Ten) |
| Head coach | Pappy Waldorf (11th season) |
| MVP | Dick Conners |
| Home stadium | Dyche Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 4 Indiana $ | 5 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 9 | – | 0 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 6 Michigan | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 12 Ohio State | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northwestern | 3 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Purdue | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin | 2 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 4 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Illinois | 1 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 2 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minnesota | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1945 Northwestern Wildcats team represented Northwestern University during the 1945 Big Ten Conference football season. In their 11th year under head coach Pappy Waldorf, the Wildcats compiled a 4–4–1 record (3–3–1 against Big Ten Conference opponents) and finished in fourth place in the Big Ten Conference.[1] End Max Morris and guard Jim Lecture were selected by both the Associated Press and United Press as first-team players on the 1945 All-Big Ten Conference football team.[2][3] Morris was also selected as a consensus first-team All-American.[4]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | Result | |||||
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| September 22 | Iowa State* | Dyche Stadium • Evanston, Illinois | W 18–6 | ||||||
| September 29 | Indiana | Dyche Stadium • Evanston, Illinois | T 7–7 | ||||||
| October 6 | Michigan | Dyche Stadium • Evanston, Illinois | L 7–20 | ||||||
| October 20 | at No. 5 Minnesota | Memorial Stadium • Minneapolis | L 7–30 | ||||||
| October 27 | No. 4 Purdue | Dyche Stadium • Evanston, Illinois | W 26–14 | ||||||
| November 3 | at No. 6 Ohio State | No. 20 | Ohio Stadium • Columbus, Ohio | L 14–16 | |||||
| November 10 | at Wisconsin | Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, Wisconsin | W 28–14 | ||||||
| November 17 | No. 7 Notre Dame* | Dyche Stadium • Evanston, Illinois (Rivalry) | L 7–34 | ||||||
| November 24 | Illinois | Dyche Stadium • Evanston, Illinois (Rivalry) | W 13–7 | ||||||
| *Non-conference game. #Rankings from AP Poll. | |||||||||
References
- ↑ "1945 Northwestern Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- ↑ "Esser Wins Berth on All-Big-Ten Team". The Milwaukee Journal. November 26, 1945. p. L2.
- ↑ Walter Byers (November 26, 1945). "Indiana and Ohio State Each Get Three Men on United Press All Star Big Ten Team". The Daily Register (Harrisburg,Illinois). p. 5.
- ↑ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 6. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
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