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1945 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

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1945 Pittsburgh Panthers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–7
Head coach
Home stadiumPitt Stadium
(capacity: 56,500)
Seasons
← 1944
1946 →
1945 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Army     9 0 0
Franklin & Marshall     4 0 1
No. 20 Columbia     8 1 0
Temple     7 1 0
No. 16 Holy Cross     8 2 0
Tufts     4 1 0
No. 8 Penn     6 2 0
Yale     6 3 0
Massachusetts State     2 1 1
Harvard     5 3 0
Penn State     5 3 0
Cornell     5 4 0
Villanova     4 4 0
Boston College     3 4 0
Brown     3 4 1
Colgate     3 4 1
Princeton     2 3 2
NYU     3 4 0
Pittsburgh     3 7 0
Bucknell     2 5 0
Drexel     2 5 0
Dartmouth     1 6 1
Syracuse     1 6 0
Boston University     0 5 0
CCNY     0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1945 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1945 college football season. The team compiled a 3–7 record under head coach Clark Shaughnessy.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22at IllinoisL 6–23
September 29West VirginiaW 20–0
October 6Bucknell
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 38–010,000[2]
October 13Michigan State
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
L 7–12
October 20No. 3 Notre Dame
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)
L 9–3957,542
October 27Temple
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
L 0–612,000[3]
November 3at No. 13 PurdueL 0–28
November 10No. 8 Ohio State
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
L 0–1418,000
November 17No. 4 Indiana
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
L 0–19
November 24Penn State
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)
W 7–011,354
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "1945 Pittsburgh Panthers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. May 21, 2016.
  2. ^ Hughes, Carl (October 7, 1945). "Panthers Hand 38-0 Beating to Bucknell". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pa. p. 35 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Smith, Chester L. (October 28, 1945). "Pitt Loses, 6-0; Fumble by Panther in First Quarter Leads to Touchdown". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pa. p. 34 – via Newspapers.com.