1945 Brown Bears football team

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1945 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4–1
Head coach
CaptainR. D. Williams
Home stadium Brown Stadium
Seasons
←  1944
1946  →
1945 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW 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

The 1945 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1945 college football season. [1]

In their second season under head coach Charles "Rip" Engle, the Bears compiled a 3–4–1 record, and were outscored 141 to 123 by opponents. R.D. Williams was the team captain. [2]

Brown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29 at Penn
L 0–50 51,000 [3]
October 6 Boston College
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
W 51–6 10,657 [4]
October 20 Holy Cross
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
L 0–25 25,000 [5]
October 27 Columbia
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
L 6–27 15,000 [6]
November 3 Coast Guard
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
W 33–6 10,000 [7]
November 10 at Yale
W 20–7 15,000 [8]
November 17 Harvard
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
L 7–14 15,000 [9]
November 24 Colgate
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
T 6–6 12,000 [10]

References

  1. ↑ "1945 Brown Bears Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved October 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Game-by-Game Results (1878-2019)". Providence, R.I.: Brown University . Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  3. ↑ Effrat, Louis (September 30, 1945). "Penn Backs Romp over Brown, 50-0". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  4. ↑ "Brown Smothers Boston Col., 51-6". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. United Press. October 7, 1945. p. S4.
  5. ↑ McGowen, Roscoe (October 21, 1945). "Holy Cross Routs Brown Team, 25-0". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  6. ↑ Nichols, Joseph C. (October 28, 1945). "Lions Score, 27 to 6; Kusserow Makes Three of the Touchdowns at Baker Field". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. ↑ "Brown Conquers Coast Guard, 33-6". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. United Press. November 4, 1945. p. S3.
  8. ↑ "Brown Overcomes Favored Yale, 20-7". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. November 11, 1945. p. S1.
  9. ↑ "Harvard Subdues Brown by 14 to 7". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. Associated Press. November 18, 1945. p. S1.
  10. ↑ McGowen, Roscoe (November 25, 1945). "Brown Gains Tie with Colgate, 6-6". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
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