1945 Texas Longhorns football team
1945 Texas Longhorns football | |
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Cotton Bowl Classic champion Southwest Conference champion | |
Cotton Bowl Classic vs. Missouri, W 40-27 | |
Conference | Southwest Conference |
Ranking | |
AP | No. 10 |
1945 record | 10-1 (5-1 SWC) |
Head coach | Dana X. Bible |
Home stadium |
Texas Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 40,500) |
1945 Southwest Conference football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
#10 Texas $ | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SMU | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas A&M | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TCU | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rice | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Baylor | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arkansas | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1945 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 1945 college football season.
Schedule
Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | Result | |||||
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September 22 | Bergstrom Field* | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 13–7 | ||||||
September 29 | Southwestern* | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 46–0 | ||||||
October 6 | Texas Tech* | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX (Rivalry) | W 33–0 | ||||||
October 13 | vs. Oklahoma* | No. 10 | Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX (Red River Rivalry) | W 12–7 | |||||
October 20 | at Arkansas | No. 10 | Little Rock, AR (Rivalry) | W 34–7 | |||||
October 27 | Rice | No. 9 | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | L 6–7 | |||||
November 3 | at SMU | No. 19 | Dallas, TX | W 12–7 | |||||
November 10 | Baylor | No. 17 | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 21–14 | |||||
November 17 | TCU | No. 17 | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 20–0 | |||||
November 29 | at Texas A&M | No. 10 | Kyle Field • College Station, TX (Rivalry) | W 20–10 | |||||
January 1, 1946 | vs. Missouri* | No. 10 | Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX (Cotton Bowl Classic) | W 40–27 | |||||
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. |
Awards and honors
- Hub Bechtol, End, Cotton Bowl co-Most Valuable Player
- Bobby Layne, Back, Cotton Bowl co-Most Valuable Player
- Hub Bechtol, Consensus All-American[2]
References
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