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1945 Maryland Terrapins football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1945
team	Maryland Terrapins
sport	football
image	Bear Bryant 1945.jpg
image_caption	Bear Bryant as Maryland head coach in 1945
conference	Southern Conference
short_conf	SoCon
record	6–2–1
conf_record	3–2
head_coach	Bear Bryant
hc_year	1st
stadium	Byrd Stadium (original)

The 1945 Maryland Terrapins football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maryland as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1945 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Bear Bryant, the team compiled a 6–2–1 record (2–2 in conference), tied for fifth place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 219 to 105.

Bryant, then 31 years old, was hired as Maryland's head coach in early September, approximately three weeks before the season began. Bryant had served in the Navy for the prior three years. He had been an assistant coach of the 1944 North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football team and was scheduled to be the team's head coach in 1945. However, the Navy announced in late August that the Navy's Pre-Flight schools would not field football teams in 1945. Bryant brought 20 number of players from the disbanded North Carolina Pre-Flight with him to Maryland.

No Maryland player were named to the 1945 All-Southern Conference football team selected by coaches and sports writers for the Associated Press.

In January 1946, after only four months at Maryland, Bryant resigned his position to become head coach at Kentucky. According to one report, Bryant did not get along with university president Curley Byrd. In one incident, Byrd reinstated a player who Bryant had suspended for a violation of team rules.

Schedule

|September 28|||Byrd Stadium|College Park, MD|W 60-6|6,000|

|October 12|||Byrd Stadium|College Park, MD|W 22-6|8,000|

|October 20|at|VPI|Miles Stadium|Blacksburg, VA|L 13-21|6,500|

|October 27|at|West Virginia|Mountaineer Field|Morgantown, WV (rivalry)|T 13-13|12,000|

|November 3||William & Mary|Byrd Stadium|College Park, MD|L 14-33|7,500|

|November 10||VMI|Byrd Stadium|College Park, MD|W 38-0|7,000|

|November 24|vs|No. 13 Virginia|Griffith Stadium|Washington, DC (rivalry)|W 19-13|15,000|

|December 1|at|South Carolina|Carolina Stadium|Columbia, SC|W 19-13|8,000|

References

"1945 Maryland Terrapins Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC.
(2018). "Maryland Football Record Book". University of Maryland.
(September 5, 1945). "Bryant, Ex-'Bama Star, New Terp Grid Coach". The Baltimore Sun.
(September 20, 1945). "Navy Gridmen Join Maryland: Twenty Men From N.C. Pre-Flight Follow Coach Bryant". The Baltimore Sun.
(December 8, 1945). "Southern Conference All-Star Team Named". The Baltimore Sun.
Randall Cassell. (January 15, 1946). "Aides To Follow Bryant To Kentucky, Liners Must Rebuild Coaching Corps". The Evening Sun (Baltimore).
Phillips, B. J.. (September 29, 1980). "Football's Supercoach". [[Time (magazine).
(September 29, 1945). "Terps Smother Guilford, 60-6". The Baltimore Sun.
(October 7, 1945). "Maryland Trips Richmond, 21-0". The Baltimore Sun.
Craig E. Taylor. (October 13, 1945). "Mariners Bow To Maryland: Terps Beat Merchant Marine Eleven, 22 To 6". The Baltimore Sun.
(October 21, 1945). "V.P.I. Spills Maryland, 21-13, For Terps' First Defeat of Season". The Baltimore Sun.
(October 28, 1945). "West Virginia Eleven Rallies To Tie U. Of Maryland In 13-To-13 Game". The Baltimore Sun.
William O. Varn. (November 4, 1945). "W&M Tribe Comes From Behind To Trounce Terps: Last-Half Avalanche Wins, 33-14". Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia).
(November 11, 1945). "Maryland Rolls To 38-0 Victory Over V.M.I. On Home-Coming Day". The Baltimore Sun.
Craig E. Taylor. (November 25, 1945). "Maryland Hands Virginia First Defeat Of Season, 19-13: Cavaliers Beaten By Long Pass". The Baltimore Sun.
(December 2, 1945). "U. Of Maryland Gridders Outlast South Carolina To Win, 19 To 13: Victors Roll To Early Lead". The Baltimore Sun.

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