1945 Rutgers Queensmen football team

1945 Rutgers Queensmen football
Middle Three champion
ConferenceMiddle Three Conference
Record5–2 (2–0 Middle Three)
Head coach
CaptainEugene McManus
Home stadiumRutgers Stadium
Seasons
← 1944
1946 →
1945 Middle Three Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Rutgers $ 2 0 0 5 2 0
Lafayette 1 1 0 1 7 1
Lehigh 0 2 0 2 4 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1945 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1945 college football season. In their eighth and final season under head coach Harry Rockafeller, the Queensmen compiled a 5–2 record, won the Middle Three Conference championship, and outscored their opponents 140–61. The team's only losses came against Swarthmore (6–13) and Princeton (6–14).[1] In November 1945, Rockafeller announced that he would step down as head coach at the end of the 1945 season.[2]

  1. ^ "Rutgers Yearly Results (1945-1949)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
  2. ^ "N.Y.U. Conquered by Rutgers, 13-7: Scarlet Gives Rockafeller, Ending Coaching Career, Victory for Present". The New York Times. November 18, 1945.