1945 Missouri Tigers football team

American college football season

1945 Missouri Tigers football

Big 6 champion

Cotton Bowl Classic, L 27–40 vs. Texas

Conference| Big Six Conference
Record| 6–4 (5–0 Big 6)
Head coach|

* Chauncey Simpson (3rd season)

Home stadium| Memorial Stadium

Seasons

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1946 ->

1945 Big Six Conference football standings

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Missouri $  | 5  | - | 0  | - | 0 |  |  | 6  | - | 4  | - | 0
Oklahoma | 4  | - | 1  | - | 0 |  |  | 5  | - | 5  | - | 0
Iowa State | 2  | - | 2  | - | 1 |  |  | 4  | - | 3  | - | 1
Nebraska | 2  | - | 3  | - | 0 |  |  | 4  | - | 5  | - | 0
Kansas | 1  | - | 3  | - | 1 |  |  | 4  | - | 5  | - | 1
Kansas State | 0  | - | 5  | - | 0 |  |  | 1  | - | 7  | - | 0

* $ - Conference champion

The 1945 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Six Conference (Big 6) during the 1945 college football season. The team compiled a 6–4 record (5–0 against Big 6 opponents), won the Big 6 championship, lost to Texas in the 1946 Cotton Bowl Classic, and was outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 174 to 170. Chauncey Simpson was the head coach for the third of three seasons.[1][2] The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.

The team's leading scorers were Loyd Brinkman and Robert Hopkins, each with 30 points.[3]

## Schedule[edit]

Date| Opponent| Rank| Site| Result| Attendance| Source

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September 22| at Minnesota*| |

* Memorial Stadium
* Minneapolis, MN

| L 0–34| 34,246|
September 29| Ohio State*| |

* Memorial Stadium
* Columbia, MO

| L 6–47| 41,299|
October 6| at SMU*| |

* Ownby Stadium
* University Park, TX

| W 10–7| |
October 13| at Iowa State| |

* Clyde Williams Field
* Ames, IA (rivalry)

| W 13–7| 8,157|
October 20| Kansas State| |

* Memorial Stadium
* Columbia, MO

| W 41–7| |
October 27| Nebraska| |

* Memorial Stadium
* Columbia, MO (rivalry)

| W 19–0| |
November 3| at Michigan State*| |

* Macklin Field
* East Lansing, MI

| L 7–14| |
November 17| No. T–14 Oklahoma| |

* Memorial Stadium
* Columbia, MO (rivalry)

| W 14–6| |
November 24| vs. Kansas| No. 16|

* Blues Stadium
* Kansas City, MO (rivalry)

| W 33–12| 21,494| [4]
January 1, 1946| vs. No. 10 Texas| |

* Cotton Bowl
* Dallas, TX (Cotton Bowl)

| L 27–40| 46,000| [5]

* *Non-conference game
* Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

## Rankings[edit]

See also: 1945 NCAA football rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
— = Not ranked т = Tied with team above or below| Week

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Poll| 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| Final
AP| —| —| —| —| —| —| 16| 14т| —

## References[edit]

1. ^ "1944 Missouri Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
2. ^ "2016 Mizzou Football Media Guide" (PDF). University of Missouri. p. 158. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
3. ^ "2014 Mizzou Football Records Book" (PDF). University of Missouri. p. 26\. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
4. ^ "Missouri Wallops Kansas 33-12 to Take Big Six Flag". The Sunday News and Tribune. Associated Press. November 25, 1945. p. 11 - via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ Bob Broeg (January 2, 1946). "Missouri Shows Texas Some Football but Longhorns Win, 40-27". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 4B - via Newspapers.com.

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Missouri Tigers football

Venues|

* Guitar and Lowry Field (1890–1891)
* Athletic Grounds (1892–1895)
* Rollins Field (1896–1926)
* Faurot Field (1926–present)

Bowls & rivalries|

* Bowl games
* Arkansas: Battle Line Rivalry
* Illinois
* Iowa State
* Kansas: Border War
* Nebraska
* Oklahoma

Culture and lore|

* Truman the Tiger
* Marching Mizzou
* 1911 Kansas game
* Fifth Down Game (1990)
* Flea Kicker

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Big Eight Conference football champions

MVIAA|

* Iowa & Nebraska (1907)
* Kansas (1908)
* Missouri (1909)
* Nebraska (1910)
* Iowa State & Nebraska (1911)
* Iowa State & Nebraska (1912)
* Missouri & Nebraska (1913)
* Nebraska (1914)
* Nebraska (1915)
* Nebraska (1916)
* Nebraska (1917)
* Missouri (1919)
* Oklahoma (1920)
* Nebraska (1921)
* Drake & Nebraska (1922)
* Kansas & Nebraska (1923)
* Missouri (1924)
* Missouri (1925)
* Oklahoma A&M (1926)
* Missouri (1927)

Big Six|

* Nebraska (1928)
* Nebraska (1929)
* Kansas (1930)
* Nebraska (1931)
* Nebraska (1932)
* Nebraska (1933)
* Kansas State (1934)
* Nebraska (1935)
* Nebraska (1936)
* Nebraska (1937)
* Oklahoma (1938)
* Missouri (1939)
* Nebraska (1940)
* Missouri (1941)
* Missouri (1942)
* Oklahoma (1943)
* Oklahoma (1944)
* Missouri (1945)
* Kansas & Oklahoma (1946)
* Kansas & Oklahoma (1947)

Big Seven|

* Oklahoma (1948)
* Oklahoma (1949)
* Oklahoma (1950)
* Oklahoma (1951)
* Oklahoma (1952)
* Oklahoma (1953)
* Oklahoma (1954)
* Oklahoma (1955)
* Oklahoma (1956)
* Oklahoma (1957)
* Oklahoma (1958)
* Oklahoma (1959)

Big Eight|

* Missouri (1960)
* Colorado (1961)
* Oklahoma (1962)
* Nebraska (1963)
* Nebraska (1964)
* Nebraska (1965)
* Nebraska (1966)
* Oklahoma (1967)
* Kansas & Oklahoma (1968)
* Missouri & Nebraska (1969)
* Nebraska (1970)
* Nebraska (1971)
* Nebraska (1972)
* Oklahoma (1973)
* Oklahoma (1974)
* Nebraska & Oklahoma (1975)
* Colorado, Oklahoma, & Oklahoma State (1976)
* Oklahoma (1977)
* Nebraska & Oklahoma (1978)
* Oklahoma (1979)
* Oklahoma (1980)
* Nebraska (1981)
* Nebraska (1982)
* Nebraska (1983)
* Nebraska & Oklahoma (1984)
* Oklahoma (1985)
* Oklahoma (1986)
* Oklahoma (1987)
* Nebraska (1988)
* Colorado (1989)
* Colorado (1990)
* Colorado & Nebraska (1991)
* Nebraska (1992)
* Nebraska (1993)
* Nebraska (1994)
* Nebraska (1995)

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