1945 Princeton Tigers football team

1945 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	2–3–2
Head coach	Charlie Caldwell (1st season)
Home stadium	Palmer Stadium

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 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In its first season under head coach Charlie Caldwell, the team compiled a 2–3–2 record and was outscored by a total of 112 to 69. Princeton played its 1945 home games at Palmer Stadium in Princeton, New Jersey.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 6	Lafayette	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	T 7–7
October 20	at Cornell	Ithaca, NY	W 14–6
October 27	Rutgers	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 14–6
November 3	at No. 7 Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 0–28
November 10	Dartmouth	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	T 13–13
November 17	Columbia	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 7–32
November 24	Yale	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 14–20
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game