1945 SMU Mustangs football team
| 1945 SMU Mustangs football | |
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| Conference | Southwest Conference |
| Record | 5–6 (4–2 SWC) |
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| Captain | Tom Dean, Howard Maley |
| Home stadium | Ownby Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 10 Texas $ | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SMU | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TCU | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rice | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas A&M | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baylor | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arkansas | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1945 SMU Mustangs football team was an American football team that represented Southern Methodist University (SMU) as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1945 college football season. In their eighth, non-consecutive season under head coach Matty Bell, the Mustangs compiled a 5–6 record (4–2 against conference opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 201 to 110. After a stretch in which the team lost six of seven games, SMU finished the season with three consecutive shutout victories over Arkansas (21-0), Baylor (34-0), and TCU (34-0).[1] The team played its home games at Ownby Stadium in the University Park suburb of Dallas.
Three SMU players received first-team honors from the
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 22 | Blackland AAF | W 51–0 | 6,500 | [4] | ||||
| September 29 | 8:00 p.m. | at Corpus Christi NAS |
| L 7–22 | 16,000 | [5][6][7] | ||
| October 6 | Missouri |
| L 7–10 | |||||
| October 12 | at No. 14 Oklahoma State | L 12–26 | ||||||
| October 20 | Rice |
| W 21–18 | |||||
| October 27 | at Tulane | L 7–19 | 28,000 | [8] | ||||
| November 3 | Texas |
| L 7–12 | 23,000 | [9] | |||
| November 10 | at Texas A&M | L 0–3 | ||||||
| November 17 | Arkansas |
| W 21–0 | |||||
| November 24 | Baylor |
| W 34–0 | 10,000 | ||||
| December 1 | at TCU | W 34–0 | ||||||
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References
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