1945 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Purdue
Michigan's starting lineup against Purdue was Ed McNeill (left end), George Johnson (left tackle), Dominic Tomasi (left guard), Tony Momsen (center), F. Stuart Wilkins (right guard), Eugene Hinton (right tackle), Art Renner (right end), Dan Dworsky (quarterback), Pete Elliott (left halfback), Bob Nussbaumer (right halfback), and Jack Weisenburger (fullback).


1945 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: Ohio State
On November 24, 1945, Michigan defeated Ohio State by a 7 to 3 score. After a scoreless first half, Ohio State took a 3–0 lead in the third quarter on a field goal by Max Schnittker. With 6 minutes and 45 seconds remaining, Henry Fonde scored a touchdown on a short run, and George Chiames kicked the point after touchdown.


1945 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: Ohio State
Michigan's starting lineup against Purdue was Ed McNeill (left end), George Johnson (left tackle), Dominic Tomasi (left guard), Tony Momsen (center), F. Stuart Wilkins (right guard), Eugene Hinton (right tackle), Art Renner (right end), Howard Yerges (quarterback), Pete Elliott (left halfback), Bob Nussbaumer (right halfback), and Jack Weisenburger (fullback).


1945 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
The Associated Press released the results of its final poll on December 4, 1945. The 1945 Army Cadets football team, which defeated Michigan at Yankee Stadium earlier in the season, was selected as the national champion with 1,160 points and first-place votes by 115 of 116 voters. Two other Michigan opponents, Navy (#3) and Indiana (#4) finished among the top four teams in the final AP Poll with 941 and 720 points respectively. With its three losses coming to three of the top four teams, Michigan was ranked #6 in the final poll with 378 points.


1945 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
No member of Michigan's 1945 football team was selected as a first-team honoree on the 1945 College Football All-America Team, though center Harold Watts received third-team honors from the Central Press Association. Watts also received first-team honors from both the Associated Press (AP) and United Press (UP) on the 1945 All-Big Ten Conference football team, and was selected by his teammates for the team's Most Valuable Player award. Quarterback and team captain Joe Ponsetto received second-team All-Big Ten honors from the UP. End Art Renner was selected by his 1945 teammates to serve as captain of the 1946 Michigan team.


1945 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Varsity letter winners
The following 29 players received varsity letters for their participation on the 1945 Michigan football team. For players who were starters, the list also includes the number of games started by position. Players who started at least five games are displayed in bold.


1945 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Non-varsity letter winners
The following players appeared on the roster of the 1945 Michigan football team but did not receive varsity letters.


1945 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, NFL and AAFC drafts
The following 15 players from the 1945 Michigan football team were drafted to play in either the National Football League (NFL) or the All-America Football Conference (AAFC):


1945 Middlesbrough West by-election
The Middlesbrough West by-election, 1945 was a parliamentary by-election held on 14 May 1945 for the House of Commons constituency of Middlesbrough West.


1945 Middlesbrough West by-election, Previous MP
The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Liberal Member of Parliament, Harcourt Johnstone died on 1 March 1945, aged 49.


1945 Middlesbrough West by-election, Previous MP
Johnstone was elected unopposed as the constituency's MP at a by-election in 1940, caused by the previous Liberal MP Frank Kingsley Griffith becoming a County Court Judge. Johnstone had previously served as MP for Willesden East from 1923-24 and for South Shields from 1931-35.


1945 Middlesbrough West by-election, Candidates
The election took place during the Second World War. Under an agreement between the Conservative, Labour and Liberal parties; who were participating in a wartime coalition, the party holding a seat would not be opposed by the other two at a by-election. Accordingly, the Liberal Party nominated a candidate, but no Labour or Conservative representative was put forward. As no one else was nominated, there was an unopposed return and no poll took place.


1945 Middlesbrough West by-election, Candidates
The Liberal Party candidate, supporting the coalition government, was the war hero Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett (14 September 1910 - 15 September 1986). After winning the by-election, he only served in Parliament between May and June 1945. Bennett was defeated by Geoffrey Cooper of the Labour Party at the 1945 general election.


1945 Middlesbrough West by-election, Candidates
Bennett stood as a Liberal candidate at the 1948 Croydon North by-election and at Norwich North in 1950. In the 1960s, he was a National Party candidate at the 1967 Nuneaton by-election.


1945 Mikawa earthquake
The 1945 Mikawa earthquake (三河地震, Mikawa jishin) occurred off Aichi prefecture, Japan at 03:38 AM on January 13. As it occurred during World War II, information about the disaster was censored. Efforts at keeping the disaster secret hampered relief efforts and contributed to a high death toll.


1945 Mikawa earthquake, Earthquake
The Mikawa earthquake's epicenter was offshore in Mikawa Bay at a depth of eleven kilometers. The city of Tsu recorded a magnitude of 6 on the Richter Scale; however, areas in southern Aichi prefecture were closer to the epicenter, and suffered significant damage.


1945 Mikawa earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake created the Fukozu Fault, named after the village in the middle of the fault trace, in an area adjoining the west of the Tōkaidō Main Line railway between Okazaki and Gamagōri, Aichi Prefecture. The fault's total visible distance is little more than 9 km, but is of great interest to geologists as it has a right-angle bend in its middle part, rather than being straight or at a gentle curve. It is also remarkable in that ground displacement at the fault is up to one meter in places; however, the Tokaido Railway Line, although only 150 meters from the fault line in places, suffered no damage.


1945 Mikawa earthquake, Damage
Hardest hit were what is now Hazu District: Nishio city, Kira town, Anjō city, Hekinan city and Gamagōri city. The confirmed death toll was 1,180, with an additional 1,126 missing and 3,866 injured. As the earthquake occurred in the middle of the night, and towards the end of the war when fuel supplies were very low, only two houses were lost to fire, but 7,221 houses were totally destroyed, and 16,555 were severely damaged.


1945 Mikawa earthquake, Previous events
Similar large earthquakes have occurred in the same location in 1685 and 1686, and the large 1944 Tōnankai earthquake was also in the same area.


1945 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 1945 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1945 Big Ten Conference football season. In their 11th non-consecutive year under head coach Bernie Bierman (Bierman was not Minnesota's coach from 1942 to 1944), the Golden Gophers compiled a 4–5 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 177 to 55.


1945 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
Total attendance for the season was 246,931, which averaged to 41,155. The season high for attendance was against Ohio State.


1945 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
On November 3, 1945, Minnesota lost to Michigan by a 26 to 0 score. Michigan's touchdowns were scored by Yerges (short run in the first quarter), fullback Jack Weisenburger (13-yard run in fourth quarter), and halfbacks Wally Teninga and Warren Bentz (12-yard pass from Don Robinson). Bob Callahan kicked two points after touchdown. Michigan gained 261 rushing yards and 131 passing yards in the game.


1945 Mississippi State Maroons football team
The 1945 Mississippi State Maroons football team represented Mississippi State College during the 1945 college football season.


1945 Missouri Tigers football team
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. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.


1945 Missouri Tigers football team
The team's leading scorers were Loyd Brinkman and Robert Hopkins, each with 30 points.


1945 Mongolian independence referendum
An independence referendum was held in the Mongolian People's Republic on 20 October 1945. It was approved by 100% of voters, with no votes against, according to official statistics. Voter turnout was 98.5%.


1945 Mongolian independence referendum
Mongolia had gained de facto independence from the Republic of China in the Mongolian Revolution of 1921. In that year the last Chinese troops in the country had been expelled by the White Russian general Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, prompting Soviet intervention. The Mongolian People's Republic was effectively an unrecognized satellite state of the Soviet Union (USSR). Towards the end of World War II, the USSR pushed China for formal recognition of the status quo, threatening to stir up Mongolian nationalism within China. In the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance signed on 14 August 1945, China agreed to recognize Mongolian independence after a successful referendum. The actual referendum was regarded by both sides as political theatre.


1945 Monmouth by-election
The Monmouth by-election, 1945 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Monmouth in Wales on 31 October 1945. The seat had become vacant on the death of the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Leslie Pym, and the by-election was won by the Conservative candidate Peter Thorneycroft.


1945 Monmouth by-election, Vacancy
The Conservative MP Leslie Pym had died at the age of 61 on 17 July 1945, only 5 days after polling in the 1945 general election, but 9 days before the declaration. He was thus unusually declared elected posthumously. Pym had held the seat since a by-election in 1939.


1945 Monmouth by-election, Candidates
The Conservative candidate was 36-year-old Peter Thorneycroft, who had been the MP for Stafford from a 1938 by-election until his defeat at the 1945 general election.


1945 Monmouth by-election, Candidates
The Labour Party candidate was A. B. L. Oakley, who had been the unsuccessful candidate at the general election in July.


1945 Monmouth by-election, Result
On a significantly reduced turnout, Thorneycroft held the seat for the Conservatives, a narrowly increased majority of 2,139. He held the seat until his defeat at the 1966 general election, serving as a senior Cabinet minister in the government of Harold Macmillan.


1945 Montana Grizzlies football team
The 1945 Montana Grizzlies football team represented the University of Montana in the 1945 college football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC). The Grizzlies were led by first-year head coach George "Jiggs" Dahlberg, played their home games at Dornblaser Field and finished the season with a record of one win and four losses (1–4, 0–1 PCC).


1945 Motherwell by-election
The Motherwell by-election was held on 12 April 1945, following the death of Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Motherwell James Walker.


1945 Motherwell by-election
The by-election took place during the Second World War during unusual political conditions. No general election had been held since 1935, at which James Walker narrowly gained the seat for Labour from the Unionist Party.


1945 Motherwell by-election
There was a truce between the major parties: Labour, the Conservative Party, Liberal Party and the National Liberal Party. The Communist Party of Great Britain, which had held Motherwell in the past, also undertook to abide by the truce. As a result, the only opposition in by-elections came from independents, minor parties and occasional unofficial party candidates aligned with major parties.


1945 Motherwell by-election
For the by-election, the Labour Party stood Alexander Anderson. His only opposition came from the Scottish National Party (SNP), then a small party advocating Scottish independence, who stood Party Secretary Robert McIntyre.


1945 Motherwell by-election, Results
The election was won by McIntyre, who became the first SNP Member of Parliament. However, Anderson regained the seat from McIntyre at the 1945 general election a few months later.


1945 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1945 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 8th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 16 teams playing in a single-elimination format, instead of the normal 32. It is the only tournament to feature only 16 teams. The NAIA Semifinals featured four new teams for the first time since the inaugural year, 1937. The championship game featured Loyola University (La.) defeating Pepperdine University (Calif.) 49 to 35.


1945 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament, Awards and honors
Many of the records set by the 1945 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later:


1945 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament, 1945 NAIA bracket, 3rd place game
The third place game featured the losing teams from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988.


1945 NC State Wolfpack football team
The 1945 NC State Wolfpack football team was an American football team that represented North Carolina State University as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1945 college football season. In its second season under head coach Beattie Feathers, the team compiled a 3–6 record (2–4 against SoCon opponents) and was outscored by a total of 144 to 131.


1945 NCAA Basketball Tournament
The 1945 NCAA Basketball Tournament was an eight-team single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college basketball. It began on March 22, 1945, and ended with the championship game on March 27 in New York City. A total of nine games were played, including a third place game in each region.


1945 NCAA Basketball Tournament
Oklahoma A&M, coached by Henry Iba, won the national title with a 49–45 victory in the final game over NYU, coached by Howard Cann. Bob Kurland of Oklahoma A&M was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.


1945 NCAA Basketball Tournament, Locations
The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 1945 tournament:


1945 NCAA Cross Country Championships
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1945 NCAA Cross Country Championships
The 1945 NCAA Cross Country Championships were the seventh annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate cross country running in the United States.


1945 NCAA Cross Country Championships
Since the current multi-division format for NCAA championship did not begin until 1973, all NCAA members were eligible. In total, 19 teams and 72 individual runners contested this championship.


1945 NCAA Cross Country Championships
The meet was hosted by Michigan State College at the Forest Akers East Golf Course in East Lansing, Michigan for the seventh consecutive time. Additionally, the distance for the race was 4 miles (6.4 kilometers).


1945 NCAA Cross Country Championships
The team national championship was retained by the Drake Bulldogs, their second overall. The individual championship was also retained by Fred Feiler from Drake with a time of 21:14.2.


1945 NCAA Golf Championship
The 1945 NCAA Golf Championship was the seventh annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate golf in the United States.


1945 NCAA Golf Championship
The tournament was held at the Ohio State University Golf Club in Columbus, Ohio.


1945 NCAA Golf Championship
Host Ohio State won the team title, finishing 19 strokes ahead of second-place finishers Michigan and Northwestern. This was the Buckeyes' first NCAA golf title.


1945 NCAA Golf Championship
The individual championship was won by John Lorms, also from Ohio State.


1945 NCAA Golf Championship
Contested during the midst of World War II, only five teams contested the tournament.


1945 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The consensus 1945 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Helms Athletic Foundation, Converse, The Sporting News, and Argosy Magazine.


1945 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1945 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships  were contested in March 1945 at the Intramural Sports Building at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the ninth annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


1945 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
Ohio State topped hosts, and rivals, Michigan in the team standings, the second team national title for the Buckeyes.


1945 NCAA Track and Field Championships
The 1945 NCAA Track and Field Championships were contested at the 24th annual NCAA-hosted track meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate track and field events in the United States. For the second straight year, this meet events were hosted by Marquette University at Marquette Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.


1945 NCAA baseball season
The 1945 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1945. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.


1945 NCAA baseball season, Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1945 season.


1945 NCAA football rankings
One human poll comprised the 1945 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason—the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll. The Coaches' Poll began operation in 1950; in addition, the AP Poll did not begin conducting preseason polls until that same year.


1945 NCAA football rankings, AP Poll
The final AP Poll was released on December 2, at the end of the 1945 regular season, weeks before the major bowls. The AP would not release a post-bowl season final poll regularly until 1968.


1945 NFL Championship Game
The 1945 National Football League Championship Game was the 13th National Football League (NFL) championship game. The Cleveland Rams defeated the Washington Redskins, 15–14, at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 16.


1945 NFL Championship Game
This was the last game before the Rams moved west to Los Angeles, California. One play which provided the Rams' margin of victory led to a significant rule change in professional football.


1945 NFL Championship Game
Additionally, it was the coldest NFL championship game up to that time, with a temperature of −8 °F (−22 °C)


1945 NFL Championship Game, The game
In the first quarter, the Redskins had the ball at their own 5-yard line. Dropping back into the end zone, quarterback Sammy Baugh threw, but the ball hit the goal post (which at the time were on the goal line instead of at the back of the end zone) and bounced back to the ground in the end zone. Under the rules at the time, this was ruled as a safety and thus gave the Rams a 2–0 lead.


1945 NFL Championship Game, The game
In the second quarter, Baugh suffered bruised ribs and was replaced by Frank Filchock. Filchock threw a 38-yard touchdown pass to Steve Bagarus to give the Redskins a 7–2 lead. But the Rams scored just before halftime when rookie quarterback Bob Waterfield threw a 37-yard touchdown pass to Jim Benton. Waterfield's ensuing extra point was partiallyblocked, with the ball teetering on the crossbar, but it dropped over to give Cleveland a 9–7 lead.


1945 NFL Championship Game, The game
In the third quarter, the Rams increased their lead when Jim Gillette scored on a 44-yard touchdown reception, but this time the extra point was missed. The Redskins then came back to cut their deficit to 15–14 with Bob Seymour's 8-yard touchdown catch from Filchock. In the fourth quarter, Washington kicker Joe Aguirre missed two field goals attempts, of 46 and 31 yards, that could have won the game.


1945 NFL Championship Game, The game
But it was the safety that proved to be the margin of victory. Redskins owner George Preston Marshall was so upset with the outcome that he became a major force in passing the following major rule change after the season: A forward pass that strikes the goal posts is automatically ruled incomplete. This rule, which eventually became known as the "Baugh/Marshall Rule", remained in effect until 1974 when the moving of the goalposts back to the end line made it impossible to hit the goal posts with a legal forward pass, and thus made the rule dead letter.


1945 NFL Championship Game, Officials
The NFL had only four game officials in 1945; the back judge was added in 1947, the line judge in 1965, and the side judge in 1978.


1945 NFL Championship Game, Player shares
Total revenue generated by the championship game totaled $164,542, which included $15,081 for radio broadcast rights, a new record. Of this total, $95,261 was allotted to the players, resulting of winners' shares of about $1,409 per player for the victorious Rams and $902 per player for the losing Redskins.


1945 NFL Championship Game, Player shares
Despite winning the world championship, Rams owner Dan Reeves lost money with his franchise during the 1945 season, helping to assure his move to Los Angeles in January 1946.


1945 NFL Championship Game, Game statistics, Scoring summary
Yards rushing: Rams 44 carries for 180 yards, Redskins 34 carries for 35 yards


1945 NFL Championship Game, Game statistics, Scoring summary
Passing: Rams 11-for-27 for 192 yards (2 TDs), Redskins 9-for-20 for 179 yards (2 TDs)


1945 NFL Championship Game, Game statistics, Scoring summary
Penalties: Rams 6 for 60 yards, Redskins 4 for 29 yards


1945 NFL Draft
The 1945 National Football League Draft was held on April 8, 1945, at the Commodore Hotel in New York City, New York.


1945 NFL season
The 1945 NFL season was the 26th regular season of the National Football League. The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Chicago Cardinals resumed their traditional operations.


1945 NFL season
The remains of the final Ohio League member Dayton Triangles, then known as the Brooklyn Tigers, and the Boston Yanks merged for this one season. The combined team, known simply as The Yanks, played four games at Boston's Fenway Park and one game at New York's Yankee Stadium. After Brooklyn Tigers owner Dan Topping announced his intentions to join the new All-America Football Conference, his rights to the Triangles' legacy franchise were immediately revoked after the season and all of its players were assigned to the Boston Yanks, who carried on the team's lineage.


1945 NFL season
The season ended when the Cleveland Rams defeated the Washington Redskins in the NFL Championship Game in Cleveland.


1945 NFL season, Draft
The 1945 NFL Draft was held on April 8, 1945 at New York City's Commodore Hotel. With the first pick, the Chicago Cardinals selected halfback Charley Trippi from the University of Georgia.


1945 NFL season, Division races
In the Eastern Division, the Yanks were still unbeaten (2–0–1) as of Week Four; at their only Yankee Stadium game (October 14), they had a 13–10 lead until the Giants tied them 13–13. In Week Five, the Yanks' 38–14 loss to Green Bay, put them at 2–1–1, tied with 2–1–0 Washington, while in the Western race, the Rams reached 4–0–0 after a 41–21 win over the Bears. In Week Six, halfway through the ten-game season, Boston and Washington both won, putting them even at 3–1–1 and 3–1–0.


1945 NFL season, Division races
The Rams' 28–14 loss to the Eagles, along with wins by the Lions and Packers, tied all teams at 4–1–0 in the west. In Week Seven, the a blocked extra point attempt gave Detroit a 10–9 win at Boston, keeping the Lions tied with the Rams (5–1–0) for the Western lead, while taking the 3–2–1 Yanks to a game behind the 4–1–0 Redskins. In Week Nine, the Rams took the lead in the Western after a 35–21 win over the Cards, while the Lions lost 35–14 to the Giants.


1945 NFL season, Division races
In Week Ten, the 7–1 Rams and the 6–2 Lions met in Detroit's Thanksgiving Day game. For the Lions it was a must-win game, but they lost 28–21; at 8–1–0, the Rams clinched the division. Days later, the 5–2 Eagles hosted the 6–1 Redskins, and the Eagles' 16–0 win tied the teams at 6–2–0 in the Eastern race. The next week, however, the Eagles lost to the Giants 28–21, while the Redskins beat the Steelers 24–0. Washington's 17–0 win over the Giants the next week clinched its division.


1945 NFL season, Final standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1945 NFL season, NFL Championship Game
Cleveland 15, Washington 14, at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 16


1945 NSWRFL season
The 1945 NSWRFL season was the thirty-eighth New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership season, Sydney’s top-level rugby league club competition, and Australia’s first. Eight teams from across the city contested during the season which culminated in Eastern Suburbs' victory over Balmain in the grand final.


1945 NSWRFL season, Teams
11th seasonGround: Belmore Sports Ground Coach: Bill KellyCaptain: George Kilham


1945 NSWRFL season, Teams
38th seasonGround: Sydney Sports Ground Coach: Arthur HallowayCaptain: Ray Stehr


1945 NSWRFL season, Teams
38th seasonGround: Henson ParkCoach: Arthur Folwell, Frank Farrell and Len SmithCaptain: Frank Farrell


1945 NSWRFL season, Teams
25th seasonGround: Hurstville Oval Coach: Percy Williams & Harry KadwellCaptain: Jim Hale


1945 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership Final
Balmain led 10–5 at half time and the match was evenly balanced throughout the second half. With three minutes to go the Tricolours trailed 17—18. The Roosters were awarded a penalty on half way and Dick Dunn convinced his reluctant captain Ray Stehr that he could make the distance. Dunn successfully kicked the goal from the then unorthodox upright position.


1945 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership Final
Dunn received Joe Jorgenson’s kick from the restart and booted the ball into touch five metres from the Balmain line. Tricolours’ hooker George Watt won the scrum against the feed and Easts’ classy halves pairing of Sel Lisle and Wally O'Connell put on a move that saw Dunn score in the corner.


1945 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership Final
Dunn scored 19 of the Tricolours’ 22 points that day carrying with him for luck the sock of his fourteen-month-old daughter in his shorts pocket throughout the match.


1945 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership Final
Eastern Suburbs 22 (Tries: Dunn 3, J Arnold. Goals: Dunn 5)


1945 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership Final
Balmain  18 (Tries: Ponchard 2, Dawes, Nielsen. Goals: Jorgenson 3)


1945 NYU Violets football team
The 1945 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1945 college football season.


1945 NYU Violets football team
In their second season under head coach John J. Weinheimer, the Violets compiled a 3–4 record and were outscored 125–89.


1945 NYU Violets football team
The team played its home games at Ohio Field on NYU's University Heights campus in The Bronx borough of New York City.


1945 National Challenge Cup
The 1945 National Challenge Cup was the 32nd edition of the United States Football Association's annual open cup. Brookhattan was the winner and the Cleveland Americans were the runners-up.


1945 National Invitation Tournament
The 1945 National Invitation Tournament was the 1945 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.


1945 National Invitation Tournament, Selected teams
Below is a list of the eight teams selected for the tournament.


1945 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1945 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1945 college football season. In their second season under head coach Oscar Hagberg, the Midshipmen compiled a 7–1–1 record, shut out three opponents and outscored all opponents by a combined score of 220 to 65. Navy was ranked No. 3 in the final AP Poll.


1945 Neath by-election
The Neath by-election, 1945, was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Neath in South Wales.


1945 Neath by-election
Neath was considered a safe seat for the Labour Party and had been held by William Jenkins since the 1922 general election. No other candidate had stood in the seat at the last general election. Jenkins died on 8 December 1944, but as World War II was still underway, the process of calling a by-election was slow, and the date was ultimately set as 15 May 1945.


1945 Neath by-election, Candidates
The Labour Party expected to easily hold the seat, and stood local miner D. J. Williams. Williams was a member of Pontardawe Rural District Council, and the Executive Council of the South Wales Miners' Federation. He had been part of a miners' delegation to the Soviet Union and was known for his opposition to Welsh nationalism. Williams was supported by Will Lawther, President of the National Union of Mineworkers, which sponsored his candidature.


1945 Neath by-election, Candidates
There was a truce between the major parties: Labour, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Party and the National Liberal Party. The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), which had considerable strength in South Wales, was not a signatory to the pact, but had undertaken not to contest seats held by the major parties. As a result, the only opposition in by-elections came from independents, minor parties and occasional unofficial party candidates aligned with major parties.


1945 Neath by-election, Candidates
Plaid Cymru stood Wynne Samuel, its South Wales organiser. The party's main strengths were in North Wales, and he was not expected to be a strong contender, but the party hoped this would launch a new strategy of winning over industrial workers in the south of the nation.


1945 Neath by-election, Candidates
The Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) stood Jock Haston, its General Secretary. This was the first time any Trotskyist organisation had stood a candidate in a British Parliamentary election. The party had only been established the previous year, and Trotskyism had not previously had a base in South Wales.


1945 Neath by-election, Candidates
The RCP had been leading supporters of strikes by coal miners which had occurred in the area in 1944, for which efforts some of its members had been imprisoned. Several local miners' lodges had supported their defence, and the RCP had sent a prominent member, John Lawrence, as a full-time organiser for the area, recruiting some activists in Merthyr Tydfil, Llanelli and Swansea.


1945 Neath by-election, Candidates
The party stood on a revolutionary internationalist platform, declaring "Our candidate will fight on a platform of uncompromising hostility to the imperialist war, for the breaking of the Coalition, for the overthrow of the Churchill Government and for Labour to take power on a Socialist platform." Their main slogan was "Break the Coalition, Labour to Power".


1945 Neath by-election, Campaign
The Communist Party offered its full support to the Labour candidate and campaigned against the RCP, using the slogan "A Vote for Haston is a Vote for Hitler". Williams repudiated the Communist support, opposing its policy of a popular front with the Conservatives and Labour after the war.


1945 Neath by-election, Campaign
After repeated requests from the RCP, the CPGB agreed to hold a debate in Neath, putting up Alun Thomas, leader of the Communist Party in West Wales, against Haston. The meeting attracted about 1,500 voters, who heard Thomas claim that "In Russia they defeated fascism because they shot all the Trotskyists and the Fifth column scum, and if we had our way, these people on this platform would be shot."


1945 Neath by-election, Campaign
The local Independent Labour Party was small, and was split as to how to respond to the election. Two of their local activists campaigned for and subsequently joined the RCP.


1945 Neath by-election, Campaign
In the final week of the campaign, the war in Europe was concluded and VE Day was held, overshadowing the by-election. Although it was apparent that Labour would not agree to continue the coalition and would compel Churchill to call a general election, the Western Mail called on all Conservative and Liberal supporters to vote for Williams.


1945 Neath by-election, Results
Williams retained the seat for Labour with a large majority, and held it until his retirement at the 1964 general election. Samuel retained his deposit in a distant second place. Haston took only 1,781 votes, losing his deposit, but the RCP claimed the campaign a success and maintained a full-time organiser in the area. Haston remained on good terms with Williams, and when the RCP disintegrated in 1950, Williams assisted him in finding employment with the National Council of Labour Colleges.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska and member of the Big 6 Conference in the 1945 college football season. The team was coached by George Clark and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Before the season
Head coach Clark arrived, hired by athletic director Adolph J. Lewandowski as his own replacement in charge of the football program, and with him came a completely new staff of five assistants. George "Potsy" Clark's playing and coaching career stretched back to 1912, included both college and professional teams, and by the time he arrived at Nebraska he had also served in both world wars, once in the Army and then later in the Navy Reserve. Coach Clark was exactly the kind of leader that Nebraska hoped could bring the troubled football program back from their unprecedented four-year slide.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Before the season
Now that World War II was drawing to a close, servicemen were returning home in large numbers, returning to school, and once again bolstering the quality of players on team rosters nationwide. Even with the increased pool of players to choose from, coach Clark was more selective in his choices, and the 1945 Nebraska roster was reduced by twenty from that of the previous year.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Baalhorn, Dean #46 HBBauer, Arthur #29 HBBuchanan, William #20 GBunker, Willard #17 ECostello, Robert #56 CCranston, Harlan #18 EFink, Alex #25 HBFischer, Cletus  QBFredrickson, Dean #21 GGillaspie, Tom #30 QBGradoville, Edward #26 HBHarrington, Don #42 HBHornby, James #51 EHoy, Rex #13 GJohnson, Roger #23 GKinnaman, William #60 HBKipper, Paul #50 EKorte, Robert #16 ELipps, Robert #27 GLorenz, Fred #53 G


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Miller, Salo #54 EMoore, Gerald #32 FBReninger, Clyde  TRobinson, Magnus #33 HBRolfsmeyer, William #31 GSack, Duane #52 GSailors, Don #63 ESchneider, Alec #48 ESedlacek, John #24 TSelden, Burl #22 TShort, Richard #19 CSkog, Richard #36 HBSloan, William #39 QBStory, Charles #28 HBTegt, Robert #62 TWeiss, James #45 FBWiemers, Duane #37 TWilhelms, Meno #41 TWilliams, Robert #12 TYoung, Philip #38 FB


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
The Huskers stumbled in their first game under coach Clark, and first game in Lincoln under his tenure. Different this time from previous years, however, was the competitive nature of the game. Oklahoma still kept the Cornhuskers off the board, but the defeat still provided a ray of hope that as the players learned coach Clark's ways, the fortunes of Nebraska could be reversed. Nebraska also still held the series overall, leading 16–6–3.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota
Encouraged by the showing at Oklahoma, and welcoming the chance to play at home against rival Minnesota, Nebraska only fell behind 0–14 before bouncing back to pull within seven points by the break. The showing was much more impressive than last week's loss to the Sooners, as the game was clearly still in reach. After the break, however, Nebraska collapsed completely under the onslaught of the Golden Gophers as a scoring explosion quickly pushed the game out of reach, with Minnesota scoring three times in each of the final two quarters. The 7–61 loss tied the worst margin of victory that the Cornhuskers had ever suffered, and set a new all-time record for most points scored against Nebraska in program history. The loss was the 5th in a row to Minnesota, as the Golden Gophers improved to 21–4–2 in the series.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Indiana
The Hoosiers were ranked #8 when Nebraska arrived, and it was a tall order to hope for victory against an Indiana team that had risen over the past several years to be a formidable powerhouse. The Cornhuskers were outplayed in almost every aspect of the game and fell by a 40-point margin. The one ray of hope taken away from the contest by Nebraska was that they had scored more points on Indiana than any other team so far in the season.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Indiana
Once upon a time, Nebraska had held the series lead at 3–0–2, but the Hoosiers had since run off five straight wins to take the series lead back, and dealt Nebraska their third consecutive year of three losses to open the season. Indiana would go on to finish the season as Big 9 champions, undefeated at 9–0–1, and ranked 4th in the AP Poll.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
Iowa State was too much for Nebraska to hold off, failing to convert repeated trips inside the Cyclone 20 yard line into points. The only Cornhusker score was the result of a forced turnover returned for a touchdown, and the game's outcome set a new dubious record in the Nebraska program by marking the first time the Cornhuskers had ever opened a season with four straight losses, showing that new head coach Clark still had his work cut out for him. Iowa State still had some distance to cover to catch Nebraska in their history, lagging 8–31–1 all time.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri
Again facing a highly favored Missouri squad in Columbia, the Cornhuskers did their best to make a statement by holding the powerful Tigers to just nineteen points, with the final touchdown squeaking in with less than a minute to play. Any moral victory attained with their effort on this day was still overshadowed by the continuation of the record opening stretch of losses, now five in a row, which also tied the record for most ever losses in row set just four years before. The Tigers improved to 12–24–3 against the Cornhuskers all time.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas
In front of a larger Lincoln homecoming crowd than had been seen in recent years, Nebraska faced the Jayhawks with a serious chip on their shoulder after the heartbreaking loss to Kansas the previous year that had broken the unbeaten Cornhusker streak in the series at 27 and marked the first loss to Kansas in Lincoln since 1896. Today was payback day, and Nebraska ran up to a 14–0 lead against the favored Jayhawks by halftime. Kansas made some adjustments and stormed back to make it 13–14 and keep the game in doubt until the Cornhuskers punched in another two touchdowns to slam the door on Kansas and capture the first win of 1945. The satisfying homecoming win moved Nebraska to 39-10-3 against Kansas overall.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
Kansas State fell again to Nebraska, as the Cornhuskers rallied to build on the encouraging defeat of the Kansas Jayhawks in the previous game. For the second time in a row, the Kansas State Wildcats were held off the scoreboard by Nebraska, and it appeared that the team was perhaps going to finally turn the corner under new coach Clark. With the loss, their third in a row to Nebraska, the Wildcats fell to 4–24–3 in the series.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, South Dakota
After a thirteen-year break in the series, South Dakota and Nebraska met again, but the outcome was much the same as in the days of old. The Cornhusker starters scampered quickly out to a 21–0 lead after just one quarter, and then rested for the rest of the game. The Coyotes remained unable to hold back even the Nebraska reserves, and by the end of the game South Dakota was scoreless after allowing the Cornhuskers to amass 53 points. Though the Coyotes took a victory in the first ever meeting of these teams in 1899, they remained winless in all games since and fell to 1–9–2 in the series.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
Iowa arrived in Lincoln fresh off of an upset 20–19 victory over Minnesota, the very team that scored more on Nebraska than any other team in Cornhusker history just seven weeks prior. It looked like it might be a long day for Nebraska when Iowa received the opening kickoff and returned it for a touchdown. On Nebraska's next possession, however, the game was tied up soon enough at 6–6. The squads held each other off until after the half when Nebraska was stalled and readied for a field goal attempt.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
The kick was no good, but a Hawkeye offside penalty on the attempt handed Nebraska a first down, which the Cornhuskers ultimately converted into a touchdown, and Iowa never recovered from the shift in fortunes. Iowa's win streak against Nebraska was ended at three, and the Cornhuskers improved to 21–10–3 in the series.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season
Although Nebraska had set a new record of disappointment by losing the first five games in a row, the outcome of the campaign's contests told a tale of two seasons. Over the first five games, Nebraska was outscored an average of 6–36, but upon turning the corner they finished the final four games ahead of the opposition with an average of 29–5. Hopes were high that despite a fifth straight losing season, that the clear transition midseason to winning form meant that the program was on the path back to success.


1945 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season
Coach Clark's first year moved Nebraska to 309–127–31 (.695), which was the first time the program's winning percentage had slipped below .700 since 1902. The Big 6 record also slipped slightly, to 113–28–11 (.780). Coach Clark somewhat unexpectedly opted to depart Nebraska after his first year, to coach elsewhere, casting a small measure of doubt on Nebraska's future. The groundwork had been laid, however, and it was hoped that a capable coach could come in and continue where coach Clark left off.


1945 Negro World Series
In the 1945 Negro World Series, the Cleveland Buckeyes, champions of the Negro American League, swept the Washington Homestead Grays, champions of the Negro National League, four games to none.


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The two teams were evenly matched in pitchers (who each allowed six hits on 33 batters), with a little bit of timing and luck proving the difference in Cleveland prevailing in the opening game. Cleveland broke the scoreless drought in the seventh inning. Catcher Quincy Trouppe collected the lone extra base hit for the team on his triple to start the inning, and Johnnie Cowan helped him score on a sacrifice fly.


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 1
In the eighth, first baseman Archie Ware hit a single to left, and a walk got him to second base, where right fielder Willie Grace lobbed a single into right field to score Ware for what proved to be the go-ahead run. The Grays threatened in the final frame with a one-out single by Dave Hoskins that was followed by a walk to Buck Leonard. Josh Gibson lined a single to center field to make it 2-1 and put Leonard on third.


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 1
However, Sam Bankhead would hit the ball right to shortstop Avelino Canizares that he relayed to Cowan at second base, and he relayed it to Ware at first base to complete the double play that ended the game. Buckeye starter Jefferson hurled a complete game while allowing just six hits and one earned run while striking out four and walking two batters. Grays starter Welmaker threw eight innings and allowed two runs while walking three and striking out seven. The two teams followed the game the next day with an exhibition game played in Dayton at Hudson Field, which Homestead won 3-1, while Game 2 took place two days after that.


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Homestead took an lead midway through the game, but they could not hold it together late. Buck Leonard started the fourth inning with a single to right field, and Josh Gibson followed him with a double to left field. A fielder's choice and a flyout meant that the game was 1-0 with two outs, and a Jelly Jackson single was followed by a ground out to end the threats for more. In the fifth, Cool Papa Bell started the inning with a single, and he advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt.


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 2
With two outs and Bell on third, a balk by the pitcher led to Bell scoring what proved to be the final run for the Grays. In the seventh, the Buckeyes would tie the score on the strength of hitting and timing. Willie Grace started the inning with a home run to right field to make it 2-1. Buddy Armour lined a double with one out to center field; with two outs, Eugene Bremer hit a ball to second baseman Jackson that he would bobble and make an error on, which led to Armour scoring.


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Avelino Canizares lined a single to keep the inning alive with two runners on, but Archie Ware hit a flyout to end the threat. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Quincy Trouppe started the inning with a double to center field. Facing Armour, Wright had one of his pitches go wild, which meant that Trouppe went to third as the potential winning run. Armour (who went 1-for-3 in the game) would be walked intentionally afterwards, and he rewarded it by stealing second base not long after. Johnnie Cowan (0-for-3 in the game) would then be intentionally walked to load the bases with no out with the pitcher in Gene Bremer to bat. He proceeded to line a double to right field, which scored Trouppe, Armour, and Cowan as the Buckeyes snatched Game 2 of the series.


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The Buckeyes gripped the Grays with a shutout that left the defending champions on the brink despite having left more runners on base than Cleveland (eight to six). Starter George "Jeff" Jefferson threw a shutout while allowing three hits with five walks and three strikeouts, while Roy Welmaker allowed four runs on seven hits with two walks and five strikeouts. The trouble for the Grays started in the third inning, as catcher Josh Gibson would drop a foul fly hit by Avelino Canizares, and the batter was soon walked.


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 3
A bunt attempt by Archie Ware led to an error by Welmaker and two runners on with no out. A forceout was followed by a single to get runners on second and third for Willie Grace, who responded with a flyout to the outfield to score Ware. Quincy Trouppe was intentionally walked to set up runners at second and third. Buddy Armour would line a two-run single to center to give the Buckeyes a 3-0 lead (comprised entirely of unearned runs).


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The game stood quiet until the ninth, when Cleveland added onto their lead after Jefferson grounded out to score Armour (who led the game with a 3-for-3 performance), who had singled to start the inning. Vic Harris was the final out for the Grays, shutout for just the 4th time in 20 games played in the Series over the past four seasons.


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Homestead Grays had made it to the Negro World Series four consecutive times (with two championships won), but they would end the fourth one just as they had done the first time around in being swept. Cleveland started the proceedings with two runs in the first; Avelino Canizares had a leadoff single, which was followed by a walk to Archie Ware and a single by Sam Jethroe. With the bases loaded for Parnell Woods, he hit a ball to second baseman Bozo Jackson that he could not get a hold on (with no assist from right fielder Dave Hoskins).


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 4
While Woods was called out at second, two runs had scored on the error, which was followed by two quick outs to close the inning. In the fourth, the Buckeyes started with two straight singles by Willie Grace and Quincy Trouppe that were followed by a ground out and a flyout (by Johnnie Cowan) that made it 3-0 Cleveland. The scoring popped once more in the seventh, as a Sam Jethroe two-out single scored runners on second and third (who had gotten there on a single and an error).


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Sam Bankhead was the final out for the Grays, who like the Buckeyes had left six runners of base. For the Buckeyes, starter Frank Carswell threw a complete game shutout while allowing just four hits with three walks and one strikeout and a hit batsman. For the Grays, Ray Brown had allowed ten hits with five runs (two earned) with a walk and a strikeout.


1945 Negro World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Although the series formally ended there, the two teams would play three exhibition games in the span of the next three days; the game on September 22 was played in Wilmington Park in Wilmington, Delaware (won by Cleveland 4-1), while Yankee Stadium hosted a doubleheader between the two the following day (which Homestead won 7-1 in both games).


1945 Neutral Bay state by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Neutral Bay on Saturday 15 December 1945. It was triggered by the death of the Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition, Reginald Weaver, who died a week after suffering a mild heart attack in the Legislative Assembly chamber.


1945 Neutral Bay state by-election
The seat was subsequently won by barrister Ivan Black (Liberal). Neutral Bay being a safe Liberal seat, the Labor Party chose not to field a candidate.


1945 Neutral Bay state by-election, Background
The seat of Neutral Bay, a safe Liberal seat, was held since 1927 by Reginald Weaver, who served as a Minister of the Crown in the Bavin and Stevens Governments. Weaver was the Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly until 1941 and the Leader of the Opposition since February 1944. He was also the first parliamentary leader of the newly-formed New South Wales Liberal Party since April 1945. Weaver suffered a heart attack in the Legislative Assembly chamber on the evening of 7 November 1945, and died a week later on 12 November 1945 at Hornsby Hospital.


1945 Neutral Bay state by-election, Background
Only two candidates nominated for the by-election. They were: Ivan Black, a barrister and war veteran, for the Liberal Party and Kenneth McLeod Bolton, a merchant, standing as an independent. A. E. Newland, the candidate of the small Services and Consumers Party of Australia, who had previously expressed interest in contesting, did not nominate because his name was not on the state electoral roll.


1945 Neutral Bay state by-election, Results
The Liberal Party retained the seat, with a minimal change in the margin. The Liberal candidate, Ivan Black, emerged with 56% of the vote against Independent Kenneth Bolton.


1945 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
The 1945 Nevada Wolf Pack football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In their seventh under head coach Jim Aiken, the Wolf Pack compiled a 7–3 record.


1945 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
The team included two veterans who had been injured in World War II and a former prisoner of war.


1945 New Caledonian legislative election
Legislative elections were held in New Caledonia in January 1945. The first round of voting was held on 7 January and the second round on 24 January.


1945 New Caledonian legislative election, Background
The General Council elected in 1940 was dissolved when the territory was taken over by the Free French, and Governor Henri Sautot subsequently created a 12-member nominated Administrative Council. Sautot's successor Henri Montchamp proposed a new 15-seat council, and elections were scheduled for 21 March 1943, before being postponed until 30 May. However, French leader Charles de Gaulle subsequently postponed them again, claiming that wartime elections were inadmissible. The Governor then suggested that the existing council members could be retained, alongside ten more appointed members.


1945 New Caledonian legislative election, Background
In early 1944, the French administration promised fresh elections and voter rolls began to be drawn up. However, they were subsequently postponed once more. Later in the year a decree re-established a 15-member General Council and dissolved the Administrative Council.


1945 New Caledonian legislative election, Electoral system
Members were elected using the two-round system. Although women had recently been enfranchised in France, the lack of time to prepare a new voter roll meant that female suffrage was not introduced for the 1945 elections in New Caledonia. Despite not being able to vote, women were allowed to run as candidates, and two were nominated by the Social Progress bloc.


1945 New Caledonian legislative election, Campaign
A total of 50 candidates contested the 15 seats in the first round, five of whom were independents. Seventeen withdrew prior to the second round. The candidates were from three main groupings; the Comité Caledonien led by Pierre Bergès, Social Progress (also known as the Labour group) led by Florindo Paladini and the Union Party (also known as the Conservatives or Ballande Party due to its association with Maison Ballande, the main commercial company in the territory).


1945 New Caledonian legislative election, Campaign
The Union Party represented commercial and financial sectors and put forward a manifesto calling for autonomy in the areas of customs and economic and financial policy. The Social Progress group called for the breakup of large agricultural estates and improved job opportunities for the local population.


1945 New Caledonian legislative election, Campaign
Prior to the elections, eleven Comité Caledonien members published an advertisement in the local media naming four of the Union Party candidates as supporters of Philippe Pétain.


1945 New Caledonian legislative election, Results
Voter turnout in the first round was around 50%. Bergès was the only candidate elected in the first round. Prior to the second round, the Comité Caledonien and Social Progress blocs formed a Popular Front alliance to run against the Union Party.


1945 New Caledonian legislative election, Results
The Comité Caledonien and Union Party drew most of their support from rural areas, whilst the Social Progress group's voter base was concentrated in Nouméa.


1945 New Guinea Gremlin Special rescue
The Gremlin Special was a Douglas C-47 Skytrain that crashed during a sightseeing flight over the Shangri-La valley in New Guinea in the eastern part of Netherlands Indies in 1945. The recovery of the three survivors from an isolated valley surrounded by mountains, enemy troops, and native inhabitants made worldwide news at the time and is the subject of the 2011 book Lost in Shangri-La by author Mitchell Zuckoff.


1945 New Guinea Gremlin Special rescue, Accident
The Gremlin Special flew into the side of a mountain on May 13, 1945. Five passengers survived the initial wreck with two, Sergeant Laura Besley and Private Eleanor Hanna, succumbing to injuries the next day. The survivors were Corporal Margaret Hastings, Sergeant Kenneth Decker and Lieutenant John McCollom.


1945 New Guinea Gremlin Special rescue, Accident
The Baliem Valley was previously explored in 1938 by Richard Archbold, flying in a PBY-2. Although the press believed the survivors of the Gremlin Special crash to be the first outsiders to encounter the Dani people who inhabited the area, Archbold had sent two exploration teams into the valley in 1938.


1945 New Guinea Gremlin Special rescue, Rescue
Search aircraft were dispatched when the Gremlin Special never returned. Three survivors were spotted on the ground during an air search on May 17. Two medical paratroopers were deployed to the site, followed by 10 other support troops. A journalist, Alexander Cann, was dropped into the site to document the rescue attempt, and the interactions with the native people.


1945 New Guinea Gremlin Special rescue, Rescue
The high-altitude rescue was performed using Waco CG-4 gliders towed by a Douglas C-47 Skytrain. Three separate rescues were performed by towing a glider with single pilot into the valley. The glider was then loaded and configured for a  live capture by the tow plane which recovered the survivors, towing them back to a base in Hollandia.


1945 New Mexico Lobos football team
The 1945 New Mexico Lobos football team represented the University of New Mexico in the Border Conference during the 1945 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Willis Barnes, the Lobos compiled a 6–1–1 record (1–0–1 against conference opponents), defeated Denver in the 1946 Sun Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 208 to 61.


1945 New Mexico Lobos football team
The team's 78–0 victory over Eastern New Mexico remains the second largest margin of victory in New Mexico school history. Captains were appointed by game for the 1945 season.


1945 New Year Honours
The 1945 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 1 January 1945 for the British Empire, Canada, and the Union of South Africa to celebrate the past year and mark the beginning of 1945.


1945 New Year Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1945 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 1945 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours in recognition of war service by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1944 and the beginning of 1945, and were announced on 1 January 1945. No civilian awards were made.


1945 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1945 New York City mayoral election
The New York City mayoral election of 1945 took place on November 6, 1945 in New York City. The candidates were King County District Attorney William O'Dwyer, a Democrat, and Jonah J. Goldstein, a Republican judge, as well as other, third party candidates.


1945 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
The 11th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, announced on 1 January 1946, honored the best filmmaking of 1945.


1945 New York Giants (MLB) season
The 1945 New York Giants season was the franchise's 63rd season. The team finished in fifth place in the National League with a 78-74 record, 19 games behind the Chicago Cubs.


1945 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 New York Giants season
The 1945 New York Giants season was the franchise's 21st season in the National Football League.


1945 New York Giants season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1945 New York Yankees season
The 1945 New York Yankees season was the team's 43rd season in New York and its 45th overall. The team finished in fourth place in the American League with a record of 81–71, finishing 6.5 games behind the Detroit Tigers. New York was managed by Joe McCarthy. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.


1945 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 New Zealand census
The 1945 New Zealand census was held on 25 September. Usually, a census is held in New Zealand every five years, but the 1941 census got postponed due to World War II. The previous census that did proceed had been held in 1936, i.e. nine years earlier.


1945 New Zealand census
The 1941 census was postponed through section 36 of the Finance Act, 1940, which authorised the census due in 1941 to be taken between 1942 and 1945 (inclusive). As Minister of Industries and Commerce, Dan Sullivan was in charge of the Census and Statistics Department and in 1943, he commented that there was little hope for the census to be taken while the war was still going.


1945 New Zealand census
In early April 1945, it became known that the government had plans to hold the census later that year and this was confirmed by Walter Nash in his capacity as acting prime minister on 11 April 1945, who confirmed that it would happen during September. One objective with the 1945 date was to be able to redefine electorate boundaries just prior to the 1946 general election. Bringing the census forward affected the census data. With World War II continuing until September 1945, thousands of young men were still overseas and the economy still geared to wartime conditions.


1945 New Zealand census
There was lobbying from conservative circles, for example the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, the Otago-Southland Manufacturers' Association, and the New Zealand Farmers' Federation, for the census to be held in 1946 as originally scheduled. In an editorial, The New Zealand Herald also argued for adherence to the normal schedule, for example to make it easier for statisticians to provide timeline data (the census had been held every five years since 1851).


1945 New Zealand census
Census returns were released as they became known, on a city, borough, town district, or county basis. The first preliminary results were those issued for Havelock Town District, which appeared in newspapers on 3 October 1945. The results from the census were an input to the 1946 electoral redistribution. As the government had, in a surprise move, abolished the country quota through the Electoral Amendment Act, 1945, the redistribution changed the boundaries of every electorate prior to the 1946 general election.


1945 New Zealand rugby league season
The 1945 New Zealand rugby league season was the 38th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.


1945 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
New Zealand played in no international matches due to World War II.


1945 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
In December Blackball's Ces Mountford and Ponsonby's Brian Nordgren signed with Wigan. The New Zealand Rugby League protested, however Wigan pointed out that the international transfer ban imposed in 1937 had lapsed in 1941.


1945 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Northern Union Cup
West Coast again held the Northern Union Cup at the end of the season.


1945 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition
The West Coast defeated Canterbury 60-5 at Wingham Park and 35-10 in Christchurch.


1945 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition
Auckland defeated South Auckland 46-7 at Carlaw Park and 26-13 in Huntly before defeating Wellington 46-7 at Carlaw Park and 47-17 in Wellington. They then hosted the West Coast, defeating them 8-7 after Warwick Clarke converted a late penalty goal.


1945 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition
Auckland included Roy Clark, Brian Nordgren, Pita Ririnui, Travers Hardwick, Warwick Clarke, Bernie Lowther and Roy Nurse. The West Coast included Jack Forrest, Charlie McBride, Ces, Bill and Ken Mountforld while Canterbury included Ces Davison, Pat Smith, Ray Brown and Arthur Gillman.


1945 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition
The first Schoolboy tournament took place with the West Coast, Canterbury and Auckland competing in Greymouth. The West Coast side was captained by George Menzies and Auckland were captained by Bruce Robertson.


1945 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Otahuhu won the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial Trophy and Rukutai Shield. North Shore won the Roope Rooster and Stormont Shield.


1945 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Cyril Eastlake joined Ellerslie. Otahuhu included Claude Hancox, Joffre Johnson and Johnson's three brothers; Ivan, Mick and Norm. Ponsonby included Brian Nordgren, who scored 267 points for the club during the season. The North Shore Albions included Bruce Graham, Verdun Scott, captain Roy Clark, Jack Russell-Green, Les Pye and Ivor Stirling.


1945 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
The competition consisted of Waimairi-Woolston-Hollywood, Addington, Hornby, Sydenham and Linwood.


1945 Newport by-election
The Newport by-election, 1945 was a parliamentary by-election held on 17 May 1945 for the British House of Commons constituency of Newport in Monmouthshire. It was the last by-election of the 1935–1945 Parliament.


1945 Newport by-election
The seat had become vacant on the death of the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Sir Reginald Clarry, on 17 January 1945, aged 62. He had held the seat since a 1922 by-election, with a two-year gap after his defeat at the 1929 general election (he was re-elected at the 1931 election).


1945 Newport by-election, Candidates
The Conservative Party selected as its candidate Ronald Bell, an Oxford-educated barrister who had been heavily defeated at the Caerphilly by-election in 1939. In keeping with a war-time electoral pact, the Labour and Liberal parties did not field candidates, and Bell's only opponent was Robert Edwards, the Chairman of the Independent Labour Party (ILP).


1945 Newport by-election, Results
On a considerably reduced turnout, Bell held the seat for the Conservatives with a majority of 2,702 votes; Edwards had won 45.5% of the votes, one of the ILP's best results for years.


1945 Newport by-election, Results
However, Bell's tenure as MP for Newport was brief. The date of the general election was announced on 23 May, and Parliament was dissolved on 15 June. In the Labour Party's landslide victory at general election on 5 July 1945, Bell was heavily defeated by the Labour Party candidate, Peter Freeman.


1945 Newport by-election, Results
He returned to the House of Commons at the 1950 general election as MP for South Buckinghamshire.


1945 Nigerian general strike
In mid-1945, a general strike took place in Nigeria. It was the first of its kind in the nation, growing to comprise an estimated 200,000 workers and seventeen labor unions.


1945 Nigerian general strike, Background
From 1914 to 1960 Britain held Nigeria as a colony. During the Second World War, which the colony had participated in, Nigeria saw high inflation and price increases coupled with stagnant wage growth. Additionally, in contributing to the war effort many Nigerians felt overworked. Efforts by the government to control prices had proved generally ineffective.


1945 Nigerian general strike, Background
A coalition of workers known as the Joint Executive of Government Technical Workers had demanded an increased minimum wage on March 22, 1945, which the government denied on May 2. In response, the workers issued a statement that should government not grant their demands by “Thursday, June 21, 1945, the workers of Nigeria shall proceed to seek their own remedy with due regard to law and order on the one hand and starvation on the other”. A meeting between the government and labor leaders on May 30 did not resolve issues.


1945 Nigerian general strike, Background
In an effort to calm the workers, on June 2 the government released Michael Imoudu, a prominent labor leader who had been in prison since 1943, and the following week approved a small increase in the minimum wage—which the strikers rejected. Instead of placating the workers, Imoundu's release encouraged them and he became a leader of the strike. No agreement was reached, and the workers prepared to strike.


1945 Nigerian general strike, Strike
The strike began on June 22. The railway workers announced its commencement in Lagos by blowing train whistles at midnight and rams were sacrificed were made to the "gods of Mother Africa". Later in the morning of the 22, it became clear that not all workers intended to participate in the strike, considering it unconstitutional. Many nationalists supported the strikers, including Herbert Macaulay, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Adunni Oluwole, and Obafemi Awolowo. Imoundu remained prominent in the strike, encouraging workers to join.


1945 Nigerian general strike, Strike
Some strikers began attacking those who attempted to continue working. The strike, which was spearheaded by railway workers, spread from Lagos to the rest of the colony, where labor leaders on the local level played a major role in managing it. In Eastern Nigeria, a leader, T. O. Okpareke, encouraged public support for the strike to the point that goods were sold to strikers at low prices and many did not have to pay their rent. Strikers in the North turned to the general public for funds, conducting door-to-door fundraising. The government used various means to encourage the strike to end, including spreading propaganda and enlisting labor leaders to mediate negotiations. These efforts were largely ineffective.


1945 Nigerian general strike, Strike
As a result of the strike, the majority of transportation between localities shut down, leaving biking and walking the most practical means of transport. It continued through July, unabated by a warning on the 26 that workers who continued striking into August would be fired. However, the strikers were increasingly divided, and entered into negotiations towards ending the strike in early August. On August 3 a compromise was reached where the strike was ended, lawsuits against strikers dropped, and workers not fired. The strike essentially ended on August 4, though negotiations continued until September when a commission was established to investigate the issues that had prompted the strike. It was the first of its kind in the nation, growing to comprise 200,000 workers and seventeen labor unions.


1945 Nigerian general strike, Impact
In 1946 the commission increased wages of workers. The strike served as a focal point for criticism of British rule of Nigeria. Azikiwe became known for promoting the cause of the strikers. It has been cited as a "turning point" in Nigerian labor relations. An article on the strike in the Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria declared its main legacy to be "the need for mutual sobriety." Nigeria did not have another general strike for nineteen years. Hubert Ogunde wrote an opera, Strike and Hunger, that was inspired by the strike.


1945 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
The 1945 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1945 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by third-year head coach Carl Snavely, his first at UNC since 1935 (he coached at Cornell from 1936 to 1944). North Carolina played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium and competed as a member of the Southern Conference.


1945 North Dakota Agricultural Bison football team
The 1945 North Dakota Agricultural Bison football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1945 college football season. In its second season under head coach Robert A. Lowe, the team compiled a 1–4–1 record. The team played its home games at Dacotah Field in Fargo, North Dakota.


1945 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team
The 1945 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team, also known as the Nodaks, was an American football team that represented the University of North Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1945 college football season. In its 14th year under head coach Charles A. West, the team compiled a 1–2 record (1–1 against NCC opponents) and was outscored by a total of 59 to 43. The team opened its season with a 21–16 loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, a professional football team from Canada.


1945 Northern Illinois State Huskies football team
The 1945 Northern Illinois State Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois State Teachers College in the 1945 college football season. There were no divisions of college football during this time period, and the Huskies competed in the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. They were led by 17th-year head coach Chick Evans and played their home games at the 5,500 seat Glidden Field, located on the east end of campus.


1945 Northern Ireland general election
The 1945 Northern Ireland general election was held on 14 June 1945. The election saw significant losses for the Ulster Unionist Party, though they retained their majority.


1945 Northern Ireland general election
Mirroring the result across the rest of the UK in the 1945 UK general election, candidates standing on behalf of the various Labour parties won a significantly higher vote share of 30%, but this translated into just two new MPs due to the first-past-the-post electoral system.


1945 Northwestern Wildcats football team
The 1945 Northwestern Wildcats team represented Northwestern University during the 1945 Big Ten Conference football season. In their 11th year under head coach Pappy Waldorf, the Wildcats compiled a 4–4–1 record (3–3–1 against Big Ten Conference opponents) and finished in fourth place in the Big Ten Conference. End Max Morris and guard Jim Lecture were selected by both the Associated Press and United Press as first-team players on the 1945 All-Big Ten Conference football team. Morris was also selected as a consensus first-team All-American.


1945 Norwegian Football Cup
The 1945 Norwegian Football Cup was the 40th season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. This was the first cup in five years, due to  the Second World War. The tournament was open for all members of NFF, except those from Northern Norway. The final was contested by the defending champions Fredrikstad and the four-time former winners Lyn. It took two replays to decide a winner, and in the third final Lyn won 4–0 securing their fifth title and the first title in 34 years, having last won in 1911.


1945 Norwegian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 8 October 1945, the first following World War II and the end of the German occupation. The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 76 of the 150 seats in the Storting, the first time a party had won a majority since the 1915 elections.


1945 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
The 1945 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1945 college football season.


1945 Nova Scotia general election
The 1945 Nova Scotia general election was held on 23 October 1945 to elect members of the 43rd House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.


1945 Ohio Bobcats football team
The 1945 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University during the 1945 college football season. In their 20th season under head coach Don Peden, the Bobcats compiled a 3–4 record and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 106 to 100.


1945 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
The 1945 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the 1945 Big Ten Conference football season. The Buckeyes compiled a 7–2 record and outscored opponents 194–71. The team was selected national champion by Billingsley.


1945 Oklahoma A&M Cowboys football team
The 1945 Oklahoma A&M Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College (later renamed Oklahoma State University–Stillwater) in the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1945 college football season. The team was led by seventh-year head coach Jim Lookabaugh and played its home games at Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The Cowboys compiled a 9–0 record (1–0 against conference opponents), won the Missouri Valley championship, defeated Saint Mary's in the 1946 Sugar Bowl, were ranked No. 5 in the final AP Poll, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 285 to 76. The 1945 season remains the only undefeated season in school history.


1945 Oklahoma A&M Cowboys football team
On offense, the 1945 team averaged 31.7 points, 286.9 rushing yards, and 133.5 passing yards per game. On defense, the team allowed an average of 8.4 points, 108.6 rushing yards and 79.6 passing yards per game.


1945 Oklahoma A&M Cowboys football team
The team's statistical leaders included halfback Bob Fenimore with 1,048 rushing yards, 593 passing yards, 72 points scored, and seven interceptions, and end Neill Armstrong with 312 receiving yards. Fenimore was selected as a consensus first-team halfback on the 1945 College Football All-America Team. He was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.


1945 Oklahoma A&M Cowboys football team
Three Oklahoma A&M players received first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference honors in 1945: Bob Fenimore, Neill Armstrong, and lineman J.C. Colhouer.


1945 Oklahoma A&M Cowboys football team
In 2016, the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), the organization responsible for the Coaches Poll, awarded Oklahoma A&M the 1945 national championship. This was after the AFCA asked schools who felt they had a legitimate bid for the title to submit their reasons why so that their committee could hear the case and decide. OSU was (and continues to be) the only school to apply for the honor for any of the 28 years considered, and was awarded the AFCA trophy. The AFCA committee stated that Army could also be recognized as co-champion for 1945 "if the school decides to submit paperwork to the AFCA for evaluation by the committee."


1945 Oklahoma A&M Cowboys football team, After the season
The 1946 NFL Draft was held on January 14, 1946. The following Cowboys were selected.


1945 Oklahoma Sooners football team
The 1945 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1945 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Dewey Luster, the Sooners compiled a 5–5 record (4–1 against conference opponents), finished in second place in the Big Six Conference championship, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 169 to 138.


1945 Oklahoma Sooners football team
No Sooners received All-America honors in 1945, but five Sooners received all-conference honors: Omer Burgert (end); Lester Jensen (guard); Thomas Tallchief (tackle); Jack Venable (back); and John West (back).


1945 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Rankings
The first 1945 AP Poll came out on October 7. The Sooners made their first appearance in the poll on October 28 and made their last appearance on the poll released on November 11.


1945 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Postseason, NFL draft
The following players were drafted into the National Football League following the season.


1945 Ole Miss Rebels football team
The 1945 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1945 college football season.


1945 Omloop van Vlaanderen
The 1945 Omloop van Vlaanderen was the inaugural edition of the Omloop van Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 25 March 1945. The race started and finished in Ghent. The race was won by Jean Bogaerts.


1945 Ontario general election
The 1945 Ontario general election was held on June 4, 1945, to elect the 90 members of the 22nd Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario.


1945 Ontario general election
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by George Drew, won a second consecutive term in office, winning a solid majority of seats in the legislature—66, up from 38 in the previous election.


1945 Ontario general election
The Ontario Liberal Party, led by former premier Mitchell Hepburn, was returned to the role of official opposition with 11 seats, plus 3 Liberal-Labour seats that it won, out of 6 contested, in coalition with the Labor-Progressive Party (which was, in fact, the Communist Party), in an effort to marginalize the CCF. The three new Liberal-Labour MPPs were James Newman of Rainy River, Joseph Meinzinger of Waterloo North and Alexander Parent of Essex North.


1945 Ontario general election
The social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), led by Ted Jolliffe, was reduced from 34 seats to only 8.


1945 Ontario general election
Two seats were won by the Labor-Progressive Party on its own with the re-election of A.A. MacLeod and J.B. Salsberg. The LPP contested a total of 31 ridings under the leadership of Leslie Morris who was defeated in the Toronto riding of Bracondale. As well, the Labor-Progressive Party ran several joint candidates with the Liberals under the Liberal-Labour banner.


1945 Ontario general election
The Drew government called the election in an attempt to get a majority government. By exploiting increasing Cold War tensions, the PC Party was able to defeat Jolliffe's CCF by stoking fears about communism. Jolliffe replied by giving a radio speech (written by Lister Sinclair) that accused Drew of running a political gestapo in Ontario, alleging that a secret department of the Ontario Provincial Police was acting as a political police spying on the opposition and the media. This accusation led to a backlash, and loss of support for the CCF, including the loss of Jolliffe's own seat of York South. This probably helped Drew win his majority, although in the 1970s, archival evidence was discovered proving the charge.


1945 Orange Bowl
The 1945 Orange Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the Tulsa Golden Hurricane and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.


1945 Orange Bowl, Background
Tulsa finished 2nd in the Missouri Valley Conference after three consecutive conference championships the previous three seasons. As for the Yellow Jackets, they were Southeastern Conference champions for the second straight year in Alexander's final season as coach, and this was their first Orange bowl appearance since 1940.


1945 Orange Bowl, Game summary
Frank Broyles threw for 304 yards in a losing effort.


1945 Orange Bowl, Aftermath
Bobby Dodd took over as the new Yellow Jacket coach, coaching until 1966 while appearing in three Orange Bowls, the first being in 1947 and the last in 1967. As for the Golden Hurricane, they have not reached the Orange Bowl since this game.


1945 Orange Bowl, Aftermath
One of the notable players in the Orange Bowl is Yellow Jacket Frank Broyles, who later went on to become one of the winningest coaches in Arkansas Razorbacks football history, taking over from 1957 to 1976.


1945 Oregon State Beavers football team
The 1945 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State College in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1945 college football season. Led by eleventh-year head coach Lon Stiner, the Beavers compiled a 4–4–1 record (4–4 in PCC, fourth), and were outscored 131 to 100. OSC played its five home games on campus at Bell Field in Corvallis.


1945 Oregon State Beavers football team
The season marked the resumption of play after the conclusion of World War II; the Beavers last fielded a team in 1942.


1945 Oregon Webfoots football team
The 1945 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1945 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Tex Oliver, the Webfoots compiled a 3–6 record, finished in fourth place in the PCC, and were outscored 124 to 116. The season marked the resumption of play after the conclusion of World War II; Oregon last fielded a team in 1942 and Oliver last coached them in 1941.


1945 Oregon Webfoots football team
Three home games were played on campus at Hayward Field in Eugene and one at Multnomah Stadium in Portland.


1945 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo)
1945 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo) was the 39th water polo championship in Hungary. There were eight teams who played one-round match for the title.


1945 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo), Final list
* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point


1945 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo), 2. Class
1. NSC 14, 2. Tipográfia 11, 3. KaSE 10, 4. MTE 8, 5. Postás 6 point.


1945 Ottawa Rough Riders season
The 1945 Ottawa Rough Riders finished in 1st place in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union with a 5–1 record but lost the IRFU Finals to the Toronto Argonauts by a total point score of 33–18.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane
The 1945 Outer Banks hurricane was a moderate hurricane that struck Florida and affected the East Coast of the United States in late June, 1945. The first tropical storm and the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, it developed on June 20 in the western Caribbean Sea off Honduras. For the next two days, it moved generally northward into the Gulf of Mexico. Reaching hurricane intensity on June 23, it then turned northeast toward the Florida peninsula. It made landfall in the Big Bend on June 24, then weakened to a tropical storm over land.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane
Minor damage was reported in Florida, but the storm produced heavy, though beneficial, rains that eased one of the state's worst recorded droughts. Upon entering the Atlantic Ocean, it re-intensified into a hurricane and paralleled the East Coast. On June 26, it struck the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a minimal hurricane, producing minor damage but heavy rainfall.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane
Continuing northeast, the cyclone delivered gale-force winds to New York and southern New England, causing traffic accidents and minor wind damage. Heavy rains drenched the area, and high waves offshore caused ships to need rescue. One man died in a traffic accident; some people were rescued on Long Island Sound. Peak winds on land were 66 miles per hour (106 km/h) at Nantucket, forcing ships to remain in port. The U.S. Coast Guard sought to escort ships at sea into safe harbor. Overall, the impact of the storm was minor, though temperatures fell almost 20 °F the day after the storm.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Meteorological history
On June 19, a tropical disturbance was detected between Swan Island and the Honduran coast. However, surface data in the vicinity did not indicate a closed circulation until 12 UTC on June 20. At 14 UTC that day, an Air Force reconnaissance plane located near 24°N 84°W reported gale-force winds of 35 knots (18 m/s) (40 miles per hour (64 km/h)). At the time, this was taken to indicate that a tropical storm had formed about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Swan Island.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Meteorological history
Reanalysis by the Hurricane Research Division in 2013, however, determined that a tropical storm formed farther northwest, near 19°N 86°W. Squally weather, and winds of moderate tropical storm force, was reported in connection with the tropical storm as it moved generally northward, toward the Yucatán Channel. Little strengthening occurred over the next two days, until after 12 UTC on June 22. At that time, a period of rapid deepening commenced: within 24 hours, the cyclone increased its winds from 50 mph (80 km/h) to 80 mph (130 km/h).


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Meteorological history
At the same time, its track made a sharp bend toward the northeast, threatening the Florida peninsula. While no central pressure was recorded, Hurricane Hunter aircraft flew into the storm on June 23 and reported winds of 115 mph (185 km/h) at 2015 UTC. As with most early reconnaissance data, such readings are suspect; however, based upon the reconnaissance measurement, the storm was originally listed in the Atlantic hurricane database as a Category 3 hurricane. Later, reanalysis lowered this estimate to 100 mph (160 km/h), equal to Category 2 on the modern Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, due primarily to the absence of corroboration. After peaking late on June 23, the storm quickly lost intensity.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Meteorological history
The hurricane continued northeast and made landfall at 08 UTC on June 24, north of the Tampa Bay Area. Although observations were sparse near the eye, the system was estimated to have had winds of 80 mph (130 km/h), though only minor impacts were reported as few people lived in the landfall area. After making landfall, the center tracked inland between Brooksville and Dunnellon, near the Hernando–Citrus county line. About an hour before 18 UTC, the cyclone returned to water off the Atlantic coast of Florida, passing between St. Augustine and Daytona Beach. Due to interaction with land, maximum sustained winds by then had decreased to 60 mph (97 km/h).


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Meteorological history
After moving offshore, however, the cyclone quickly regained force. Within seven hours, it re-intensified into a minimal hurricane and paralleled the Southeastern United States, following the warm Gulf Stream. Early on June 26, the northeast-moving hurricane approached the North Carolina coast, and made a second landfall at 01 UTC near Beaufort, North Carolina. Passing very near to Cape Hatteras, the eye of the storm moved offshore at Oregon Inlet, near Wanchese. The storm maintained hurricane intensity as it moved over and northeast of the Outer Banks.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Meteorological history
At 06 UTC on June 27, the cyclone finally lost tropical characteristics, but still retained winds of hurricane force for another 12 hours. Continuing to the northeast, the extratropical low passed south of Nova Scotia and hit Miquelon, Miquelon-Langlade, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, with winds of 40 mph (64 km/h). The system survived another four days, only to lose its identity near Iceland at 12 UTC on July 4.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Preparations and impact
As early as June 19, the U.S. Weather Bureau began sending reconnaissance missions to monitor the developing storm in the Caribbean. The regular reports sent by the airplanes provided valuable data about the intensity of the small cyclone. At 16 UTC (10:00 a.m. local time) on June 23, the U.S. Weather Bureau in New Orleans advised residents from Mobile, Alabama, to Cedar Key, Florida, to prepare for gale-force winds. Areas from Tampa to Grand Isle, Louisiana, were placed under a storm warning.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Preparations and impact
The center of the storm was expected to strike land early on June 24 between Mobile and Panama City, Florida. As the storm intensified into a hurricane, forecasters shifted their predicted landfall point eastward; early on June 24 the Weather Bureau expected the storm to strike between Tampa and Cross City, Florida. Hurricane warnings were issued for the coastline between Tampa and Carrabelle, Florida; meanwhile, storm warnings were issued from Punta Gorda to Titusville. The city of Tallahassee prepared to receive evacuees, and evacuations were ordered for coastal communities in the Big Bend.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Preparations and impact
The Florida Highway Patrol warned local residents to leave the area, and soldiers were transported out of Carrabelle. As the hurricane moved closer to the Big Bend, storm warnings were extended up the Eastern Seaboard to Savannah, Georgia. Between 300 and 400 military aircraft were flown out of Florida to Birmingham, Alabama. Once the storm left Florida, additional evacuations commenced between Georgetown, South Carolina, and Cape Hatteras, including the North Carolina communities of Wilmington, Morehead City, and nearby resort towns. Large-scale evacuations from the Wilmington area alone involved 5,000 people and were credited with reducing loss of life.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Preparations and impact
Meanwhile, storm warnings were extended northward to Norfolk, Virginia; however, only minor impacts occurred in Carolinas and Virginia. Nevertheless, the cyclone continued to parallel the East Coast, so storm warnings were eventually extended to Atlantic City, New Jersey; small watercraft in the Northeastern United States were advised to stay in port.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Preparations and impact
Winds in the Tampa Bay Area reached tropical storm force, 39–46 mph (63–74 km/h), at 05 UTC on June 24. At that time, the "center" of the storm was estimated to be 25 mi (40 km) across. Near the point of landfall, the hurricane defoliated citrus trees and downed power lines, and flash floods washed out roadways. Throughout its path, the hurricane generated prolific rains. Peak rainfall along the path totaled 13.6 in (350 mm) at Lake Alfred; West Palm Beach recorded 11.4 inches (290 mm) of rain within a 24-hour period.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Preparations and impact
Rainfall in Orange County exceeded 6 in (152 mm), which proved beneficial to dry orange groves; the heavy rains ended one of the worst droughts in Florida's history. Overall, damage in the Miami area was described as being slight, totaling $75,000 (1945 USD). The hurricane also produced two tornadoes in Florida, one near LaBelle and another near Melbourne. Along the Georgia coast, the hurricane produced only fringe impacts, including strong winds and heavy rain. Wind gusts to 70 mph (110 km/h) were reported from Tybee Island, and portions of coastal North Carolina received up to 8.24 in (209 mm) of rain.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Preparations and impact
In New York and New England, the outer bands of the hurricane produced gale-force winds and high surf;  peak winds were reported at up to 50 mph (80 km/h) on Long Island Sound, and large waves caused some boats to capsize and people to need rescue. Offshore, even higher velocities were reported: a weather station on Nantucket, Massachusetts, measured a peak wind of 66 mph (106 km/h), and in the Atlantic Ocean winds reaching 70 mph (110 km/h) battered Coast Guard vessels. The Coast Guard nevertheless sought to escort troubled ships into port.


1945 Outer Banks hurricane, Preparations and impact
Heavy rainfall fell across coastal New England, peaking at 4.59 in (120 mm) on Nantucket. The heavy rains and gale-force winds hindered normal traffic; a vehicle struck and killed a man at Warwick, Rhode Island. At least 10,000 telephone lines were taken out of service, 7,000 of them in the Cape Cod region. Besides causing power outages, the stormy conditions damaged trees, buildings, and crops; in the Boston area, high winds knocked down trees and chimneys. A strong temperature gradient existed between the cyclone and the Northeast U.S.: in New York City, the daily high on June 26 was almost 20° F lower than on the preceding day.