1945 Fort Benning Doughboys football team

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1945
Fort Benning Doughboys football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–4–1
Head coach
(1st season, final 8 games)
Home stadiumDoughboys Stadium
Seasons
← 1944
1946 →
1945 military service football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army Air Forces League
Third Air Force + 4 1 1 7 2 1
AAF Training Command + 4 1 1 8 3 1
Fourth Air Force 3 2 1 6 3 1
First Air Force 2 2 2 3 2 3
Air Transport Command 2 3 1 6 3 2
Personnel Distribution Command 2 4 0 6 5 0
Second Air Force 1 5 0 3 7 0
Independents
Hutchinson NAS     8 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
Amarillo AAF     3 1 0
Farragut NTS     6 2 0
South Camp Hood     5 2 0
Santa Barbara Marines     7 3 1
Fort McClellan     4 2 0
San Diego NTS     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
Kearney AAF     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
Camp Blanding     1 2 0
Great Bend AAF     2 4 0
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
Oceana NAS     1 3 0
Fort Riley     1 4 0
Lake Charles AAF     1 4 0
Pensacola NAS     2 7 1
Cherry Point Marines     1 8 0
Dalhart AAF     0 3 0
Homestead AAB     0 3 0
Fort Monroe     0 7 0
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1945 Fort Benning Doughboys football team represented the

Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia during the 1945 college football season. The Doughboys compiled a record of 5–4–1. Fort Benning began with season with Archie Milano as head coach.[1] Milano was discharged from the Army in October, after the team's first two games, and succeeded by Bill Meek.[2] The team's roster included Gene Corum, Monk Edwards, Hank Goodman, George Hecht, and Clyde Johnson
.

The Fort Benning Doughboys were ranked 28th among the nation's college and service teams in the final Litkenhous Ratings.[3]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 302:30 p.m.at AAF Training CommandL 0–2710,000[4][5][6][7]
October 6at Great Lakes NavyW 21–1220,000[8]
October 14at Keesler Field
W 26–7[9]
October 21Keesler Field
  • Doughboy Stadium
  • Fort Benning, GA
T 0–016,000[10]
October 27at Fort McClellan
W 21–67,000[11]
November 4Jacksonville NAS
  • Doughboy Stadium
  • Fort Benning, GA
L 7–3312,000[12]
November 11at Fort Pierce
L 13–14[13]
November 18
Fort Benning, GA
L 7–2312,000[14]
November 24at Jacksonville NAS
W 14–1714,000[15]
December 2Fort Pierce
  • Doughboy Stadium
  • Fort Benning, GA
W 40–6[16]
December 9Fort McClellan
  • Doughboy Stadium
  • Fort Benning, GA
cancelled [17]

[18]

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