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1945 Sugar Bowl

American college football game

Field	Value
game_name	Sugar Bowl
date_game_played	January 1
year_game_played	1945
image	File:TulaneStadiumFront1.jpg
caption	Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, hosted the Sugar Bowl.
subheader	11th Sugar Bowl
football_season	1944
stadium	Tulane Stadium
city	New Orleans, Louisiana
visitor_school	University of Alabama
visitor_name_short	Alabama
visitor_nickname	Crimson Tide
visitor_record	5–1–2
visitor_coach	Frank Thomas
visitor_conference	SEC
visitor_1q	12
visitor_2q	7
visitor_3q	0
visitor_4q	7
home_school	Duke University
home_name_short	Duke
home_nickname	Blue Devils
home_record	5–4
home_rank_AP	11
home_coach	Eddie Cameron
home_conference	SoCon
home_1q	7
home_2q	6
home_3q	7
home_4q	9
referee	J.D. Thomason (SEC;
split crew: SEC, Southern)
attendance	72,000

split crew: SEC, Southern)

The 1945 Sugar Bowl, part of the 1944 bowl game season, took place on January 1, 1945, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana. The competing teams were the Alabama Crimson Tide, representing the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the Duke Blue Devils, representing the Southern Conference (SoCon). Duke won the game 29–26.

Teams

Alabama

The 1942 Alabama squad finished the regular season 5–1–2 with its loss coming to the Georgia Bulldogs and the two ties coming against the LSU Tigers and the Tennessee Volunteers. With most of America's youth still serving in the armed forces, Frank Thomas scrambled to assemble a team in 1944. Finally he was able to fill out a roster, mostly composed of 17-year-old freshmen and students who had been rejected as unsuitable for military service. This team went down in Tide history as the "War Babies". On November 25, the Crimson Tide was invited to compete in the Sugar Bowl, marking the first time that a school had competed in the four major bowls at that time (Rose, Cotton, Orange and Sugar Bowls). The appearance marked the first for Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, and their eighth overall bowl appearance.

Duke

Game summary

References

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). "Bowl/All-Star Game Records". NCAA.org.
(January 2, 1945). "Duke ralley in final minutes beats fighting Tide in Sugar Bowl clash". The Tuscaloosa News.
Scott, Richard. ''Legends of Alabama Football''. Sports Publishing LLC, 2004, {{ISBN. 978-1-58261-277-5, p. 12
Bassett, Norman. (November 26, 1944). "Alabama will play Duke eleven in Sugar Bowl game New Years Day". The Tuscaloosa News.

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