1945 Detroit Titans football team

1945 Detroit Titans football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainGame captains
Home stadiumUniversity of Detroit Stadium
Seasons
← 1942
1946 →
1945 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Michigan State Normal     5 0 1
Central Michigan     6 1 0
Miami (OH)     7 2 0
No. 9 Notre Dame     7 2 1
Detroit     6 3 0
Great Lakes Navy     6 4 1
Michigan State     5 3 1
Akron     5 4 0
Marquette     5 4 1
Bowling Green     4 3 0
Western Michigan     4 3 0
Cincinnati     4 4 0
Ohio     3 4 0
Ohio Wesleyan     3 4 0
Carthage     2 3 0
Wayne     2 5 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1945 Detroit Titans football team represented the University of Detroit as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In their first season under head coach Chuck Baer, the Titans compiled a 6–3 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 193 to 114.[1]

The team's coaching staff consisted of Chuck Baer (head coach and line coach), Edmund Barbour (backfield coach), Lloyd Brazil (end coach, assistant backfield coach, and athletic director), and Dr. Raymond Forsyth (trainer).[2] The team had game captains rather than selecting one or two players as the team captain or captains for the full season.[3]

  1. ^ "1945 Detroit Mercy Titans Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. ^ "University of Detroit vs. Drake University game program". University of Detroit. October 26, 1945. p. 7.
  3. ^ U-D vs. Drake game program, p. 11.