1945 Stockton Army Air Field Commandos football team

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1945 Stockton Army Air Field Commandos football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5–2
Head coach
  • Gordon Rice (1st season)
Home stadiumBaxter Stadium
Seasons
← 1944
1946 →
1945 military service football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Army Air Forces League
Third Air Force + 4 –1 –17 –2 –1
AAF Training Command + 4 –1 –18 –3 –1
Fourth Air Force 3 –2 –16 –3 –1
First Air Force 2 –2 –23 –2 –3
Air Transport Command 2 –3 –16 –3 –2
Personnel Distribution Command 2 –4 –06 –5 –0
Second Air Force 1 –5 –03 –7 –0
Independents
Hutchinson NAS  – 6 –0 –0
Fleet City  – 11 –0 –1
Corpus Christi NAS  – 7 –1 –0
North Camp Hood  – 7 –1 –0
Selman Field  – 7 –1 –0
Jacksonville NAS  – 9 –2 –0
El Toro Marines  – 8 –2 –0
Camp Beale  – 6 –1 –2
Little Creek  – 7 –2 –0
Farragut NTS  – 6 –2 –0
Santa Barbara Marines  – 7 –3 –1
Fort McClellan  – 4 –2 –0
San Diego NTS  – 4 –2 –0
South Camp Hood  – 4 –2 –0
Eastern Flying Training Command  – 6 –3 –1
Atlantic City NAS  – 4 –2 –1
Minter Field  – 4 –2 –1
Camp Lee  – 7 –4 –0
Camp Peary  – 5 –3 –0
Olathe NAS  – 3 –2 –0
Great Lakes Navy  – 6 –4 –1
Hondo AAF  – 6 –4 –1
Bainbridge  – 5 –4 –0
Fort Benning  – 5 –4 –1
Albany Navy  – 3 –3 –1
Williams Field  – 4 –4 –0
Stockton AAF  – 4 –5 –2
Camp Detrick  – 3 –4 –0
Fort Warren  – 5 –7 –0
Bergstrom Field  – 3 –5 –1
Barksdale Field  – 4 –7 –0
Saint Mary's Pre-Flight  – 2 –4 –1
Keesler Field  – 3 –6 –1
Luke Field  – 1 –2 –0
Miami NAS  – 1 –2 –0
Fort Pierce  – 4 –9 –0
Gulfport AAF  – 2 –5 –0
Ellington Field  – 1 –4 –1
Miami NTC  – 1 –3 –0
Lake Charles AAF  – 1 –4 –0
Pensacola NAS  – 2 –7 –1
Cherry Point Marines  – 1 –8 –0
Fort Monroe  – 0 –7 –0
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1945 Stockton Army Air Field Commandos team represented the United States Army Air Forces's Stockton Army Air Field (Stockton AAF) and the Stockton Ordinance Depot in Stockton, California during the 1945 college football season. Led by head coach Gordon Rice, the Commandos compiled a record of 4–5–2.

Stockton AAF ranked 131st among the nation's college and service teams in the final Litkenhous Ratings. [1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
August 318:00 p.m.at Pacific (CA)
W 12–6 [2] [3]
September 88:00 p.m.at Santa Barbara Marines
L 0–264,000 [4] [5] [6]
September 228:00 p.m.at Camp Beale
T 0–05,000 [7] [8]
September 302:30 p.m.at Saint Mary's
L 0–2630,000 [9] [10]
October 68:00 p.m. McClellan Field
  • Baxter Stadium
  • Stockton, CA
W 27–0 [11] [12]
October 138:00 p.m. Minter Field
  • Baxter Stadium
  • Stockton, CA
L 0–12 [13] [14]
October 19 Albany Navy
  • Baxter Stadium
  • Stockton, CA
T 20–20 [15] [16]
November 38:00 p.m. Camp Pendleton
  • Baxter Stadium
  • Stockton, CA
L 6–13 [17] [18]
November 9at Compton
L 7–199,000 [19] [20] [21]
November 17 Stanford
W 19–1310,000 [22] [23]
November 30at Pacific (CA)
  • Baxter Stadium
  • Stockton, CA
W 6–0 [24] [25]

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References

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