Wikipedia

1945 Boston University Terriers football team

The 1945 Boston University Terriers football team was an American football team that represented Boston University as an independent during the 1945 college football season. The team was lead interim head coach Robert McKelvey until head coach Walt Holmer was discharged from the United States Navy and resumed his coaching duties on November 5, 1945.[1][2] The team compiled a 0–5 record, was shut out in four of five games, and was outscored by a total of 235 to 3.[3] The season finale against Harvard was so one-sided that head coaches Dick Harlow and Walt Holmer elected to cut 5 minutes from each of the final two quarters.[4]

1945 Boston University Terriers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–5
Head coach
Home stadiumNickerson Field
Seasons
← 1942
1946 →
1945 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Army   –   9 – 0 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   4 – 0 – 1
No. 20 Columbia   –   8 – 1 – 0
Temple   –   7 – 1 – 0
No. 16 Holy Cross   –   8 – 2 – 0
Tufts   –   4 – 1 – 0
No. 8 Penn   –   6 – 2 – 0
Yale   –   6 – 3 – 0
Massachusetts State   –   2 – 1 – 1
Harvard   –   5 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   5 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   5 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   3 – 4 – 0
Brown   –   3 – 4 – 1
Colgate   –   3 – 4 – 1
Princeton   –   2 – 3 – 2
NYU   –   3 – 4 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 7 – 0
Bucknell   –   2 – 5 – 0
Drexel   –   2 – 5 – 0
Dartmouth   –   1 – 6 – 1
Syracuse   –   1 – 6 – 0
Boston University   –   0 – 5 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 8 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

edit
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 20at TuftsMedford, MAL 0–70[5]
October 27Squantum NAS
L 3–21500[6]
November 3at Rhode Island State
L 0–30[7]
November 17at Connecticut
L 0–544,000[8]
November 24at Harvard
L 0–606,000 [9]

References

edit
  1. ^ "B. U. to Resume Gridiron Activities". The Boston Globe. September 20, 1945.
  2. ^ King, Bill (November 5, 1945). "Braves Have Already Signed New Manager". The Telegraph. Retrieved September 16, 2023.
  3. ^ "Boston (MA) Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  4. ^ "Harvard Crushes Boston U., 60 to 0". The New York Times. November 25, 1945.
  5. ^ Gerry Moore (October 21, 1945). "Tufts Sets All-Time High for Manly Clubs, Rolling Over B. U., 70 to 0". The Boston Globe. p. 32 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Nate Levenson (October 28, 1945). "Terriers Bow to Squantum Airmen, 21-3". The Boston Globe. p. 30 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Rhody Rams Batter B. U. Terriers, 33-0, on Kingston Field". The Boston Globe. November 4, 1945. p. 32 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Trojanowski Scores 4 More T.D.'s, Conn. Tops B. U., 54-0". The Boston Globe. November 18, 1945. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Harvard Crushes Boston U., 60 to 0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. United Press. November 25, 1945. p. S2.
Retrieved from "https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=1945_Boston_University_Terriers_football_team&oldid=1178160971"