1945 Personnel Distribution Command Comets football team

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1945
Army Air Forces League
Record6–5 (2–4 AAF League)
Head coach
Home stadiumDuPont Manual Stadium, Greensboro Memorial 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 Personnel Distribution Command Comets football team represented the Personnel Distribution Command (PDC) based in

Army Air Forces League (AAF League) with six others teams from the United States Army Air Forces. The team compiled an overall record of 6–5 with a mark of 2–4 in league play, placing sixth in the AAF League.[1]

The Comets began the season with Captain Ted Shipkey as head coach. In October, after the team's first three games, Shipkey was discharged from military service and returned to the University of New Mexico, where he had been head football coach before World War II. He was succeeded by Major Wally Marks who had coached at Indiana State University before the war. Staff Sergeant Jim Harris was the team's line coach until he was discharged along with Shipkey.[2]

The PDC Comets were ranked 27th among the nation's college and service teams in the final Litkenhous Ratings.[3]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 232:30 p.m.at Third Air ForceL 9–2712,000[4][5]
September 29at Army*L 0–329,000[6][7]
October 72:30 p.m.Air Transport CommandL 8–156,000[8][9]
October 14First Air ForceW 7–012,000[10][11]
October 21vs. Second Air ForceL 0–138,000[12][13]
October 28Bergstrom Field*
  • DuPont Manual Stadium
  • Louisville, KY
W 26–04,500[14]
November 4Fort Pierce*
  • Greensboro Memorial Stadium
  • Greensboro, NC
W 16–710,000[15]
November 11at Fourth Air ForceW 9–715,000[16]
November 19at Miami NAS*W 45–65,982[17]
December 2at Camp Peary*W 21–1410,000[18]
December 9vs. AAF Training CommandL 0–146,546[19]

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