1945 Northwestern Wildcats football team

1945 Big Ten Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

1945 Northwestern Wildcats football
1945 Northwestern Wildcats football
Conference	Big Ten Conference
1945 record	4–4–1 (3–3–1 Big Ten)
Head coach	Pappy Waldorf (11th season);
MVP	Dick Conners
Captain	Max Morris
Home stadium	Dyche Stadium
	Seasons ← 1944 1946 →

The 1945 Northwestern Wildcats team represented Northwestern University during the 1945 Big Ten Conference football season. In their 11th year under head coach Pappy Waldorf, the Wildcats compiled a 4–4–1 record (3–3–1 against Big Ten Conference opponents) and finished in fourth place in the Big Ten Conference.^[2] End Max Morris and guard Jim Lecture were selected by both the Associated Press and United Press as first-team players on the 1945 All-Big Ten Conference football team.^[3]^[4] Morris was also selected as a consensus first-team All-American.^[5]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result
September 22	Iowa State*		Dyche Stadium Evanston, Illinois	W 18–6
September 29	Indiana		Dyche Stadium Evanston, Illinois	T 7–7
October 6	Michigan		Dyche Stadium Evanston, Illinois	L 7–20
October 20	at No. 5 Minnesota		Memorial Stadium Minneapolis	L 7–30
October 27	No. 4 Purdue		Dyche Stadium Evanston, Illinois	W 26–14
November 3	at No. 6 Ohio State	No. 20	Ohio Stadium Columbus, Ohio	L 14–16
November 10	at Wisconsin		Camp Randall Stadium Madison, Wisconsin	W 28–14
November 17	No. 7 Notre Dame*		Dyche Stadium Evanston, Illinois (rivalry)	L 7–34
November 24	Illinois		Dyche Stadium Evanston, Illinois (rivalry)	W 13–7
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

^ "Year-by-Year Results" (PDF). 2007. p. 147. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
^ "1945 Northwestern Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
^ "Esser Wins Berth on All-Big-Ten Team". The Milwaukee Journal. November 26, 1945. p. L2.
^ Walter Byers (November 26, 1945). "Indiana and Ohio State Each Get Three Men on United Press All Star Big Ten Team". The Daily Register (Harrisburg,Illinois). p. 5.
^ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 22, 2014. Retrieved February 10, 2015.

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1945 Big Ten Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 4 Indiana $	5	–	0	–	1	9	–	0	–	1
No. 6 Michigan	5	–	1	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
No. 12 Ohio State	5	–	2	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Northwestern	3	–	3	–	1	4	–	4	–	1
Purdue	3	–	3	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Wisconsin	2	–	3	–	1	3	–	4	–	2
Illinois	1	–	4	–	1	2	–	6	–	1
Minnesota	1	–	5	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Iowa	1	–	5	–	0	2	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll