1945–46 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season, David "Matt" Bullock
1946 saw the end of a 34-year career for Illini athletic trainer Matt Bullock. From 1913-47 David “Matt” Bullock saw to it that football and basketball stars like Red Grange, George Halas, Buddy Young, Ray Woods, Chuck Carney, Lou Boudreau, Andy Phillip and other Fighting Illini stayed healthy. During his long career at the University of Illinois, Bullock cared for more than 40,000 athletes.


1945–46 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team
The 1945–46 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Harry Good, who was in his 3rd and final year as Branch McCracken returned from World War II in time for the following season. The team played its home games in The Fieldhouse in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Big Nine Conference.


1945–46 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team
The Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 18–3 and a conference record of 9–3, finishing 2nd in the Big Nine Conference. Indiana was not invited to participate in any postseason tournament.


1945–46 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team
The 1945–46 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team represented Iowa State University during the 1945-46 NCAA College men's basketball season. The Cyclones were coached by Louis Menze, who was in his eighteenth season with the Cyclones. They played their home games for the last time at the State Gymnasium in Ames, Iowa.


1945–46 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team
They finished the season 8–8, 5–5 in Big Six play to finish in third place.


1945–46 Isthmian League
The 1945–46 season was the 31st in the history of the Isthmian League, an English football competition.


1945–46 Isthmian League
It was the first season after the break caused by World War II.


1945–46 Isthmian League
Nunhead and London Caledonians did not return after the war, while two clubs from the Athenian League - Romford and Walthamstow Avenue were newly admitted. Also, it was the first season in the Isthmian League for a new club Corinthian-Casuals, who took over a place of Casuals, who merged with Corinthian.


1945–46 Italian Football Championship
The 1945–46 Italian Football Championship, officially known as 1945–46 Divisione Nazionale, was the first tournament held after World War II. Wartime disruptions and US occupation of Northern Italy forced to divide the Serie A championship in two sections, North and South. Some of the Southern sides that took part to the competition were the Serie B teams. The title was won by Torino after a final national round.


1945–46 Italian Football Championship, Northern Italy Serie A Championship, Teams
Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria reborn from Liguria and both joined this championship as FIGC special guests to repair their forced fusion by the fascist government of 1927.


1945–46 Italian Football Championship, Central and Southern Italy Serie A-B Championship, Teams
Bari had been relegated to Serie B but the FIGC annulled the move for wartime reasons.


1945–46 Italian Football Championship, Central and Southern Italy Serie A-B Championship, Serie B guests
Palermo had been relegated to Serie C but the FIGC annulled the move for wartime reasons.


1945–46 Italian Football Championship, Central and Southern Italy Serie A-B Championship, Serie B guests
Pisa was granted of a special break for its huge wartime damages. MATER had been disbanded.


1945–46 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
The 1945–46 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas during the 1945–46 college men's basketball season.


1945–46 La Liga
The 1945–46 La Liga was the 15th season since its establishment. Sevilla achieved their first title ever, secured with a 1–1 draw on the final matchday away to Barcelona, their direct rivals for the championship who would have taken the trophy with a win.


1945–46 La Liga, Relegation play-offs
The match and the replay match were played at Estadio Olímpico de Montjuïc.


1945–46 Lancashire Cup
1945–46 was the thirty-third occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held, and the first since the end of the Second World War in Europe. For the first time for several seasons there is a new name on the trophy; that of one of the founder members of the Northern Union, Widnes, who won the trophy by beating Wigan by the score of 7-3. The match was played at Wilderspool, Warrington, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 28,184 and receipts were £2,600.


1945–46 Lancashire Cup, Background
The number of teams entering showed little change from before the war. St Helens Recs had already withdrawn from the league immediately after the end on the 1938-39 season. The club had been struggling to survive for a few years with falling attendances and the economic depression and it was obviously not possible for the town to sustain two top teams. Leigh lost its ground to in August 1940 when Callender's Cable and Construction Company bought the Mather Lane site to store drums etc as part of the war effort.


1945–46 Lancashire Cup, Background
The club did not resume playing until the 1946–47 season when they found a temporary ground. Workington Town from Cumberland had joined the league. Overall, the number of teams entering this year’s competition had decreased from the pre-war total by just one and was now 12. The same pre-war fixture format was retained. This season saw no byes but two “blank” or “dummy” fixture in the first round. The second round now had two byes. The first round of the competition was played on the basis of two legged, home and away, ties.


1945–46 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Round 1
Involved  6 matches (with two “blank” fixture) and 12 clubs


1945–46 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Round 1 – Second Leg
Involved 6 matches (with two “blank” fixture) and 12 clubs. These are the reverse fixture from the first leg


1945–46 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Final, Teams and scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points


1945–46 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, The road to success
All the first round ties were played on a two leg (home and away) basisThe first club named in each of the first round ties played the first leg at homethe scores shown in the first round are the aggregate score over the two legs


1945–46 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, The road to success
1 * The first match in the Lancashire Cup competition to be played by the new club and at this ground (of Workington AFC)2 * Wilderspool was the home ground of Warrington from 1883 to the end of the 2003 Summer season when they moved into the new purpose built Halliwell Jones Stadium. Wilderspool remained as a sports/Ruugby League ground and is/was used by Woolston Rovers/Warrington Wizards junior club. The ground had a final capacity of 9,000 although the record attendance was set in a Challenge cup third round match on 13 March 1948 when 34,304 spectators saw Warrington lose to Wigan 10-13.


1945–46 Landesliga Bayern
The 1945–46 season of the Landesliga Bayern, the second highest association football league of the German football league system in Bavaria at the time, was the inaugural season of the league. The first season of the league marked the restart of league football in Bavaria after the end of the Second World War.


1945–46 Landesliga Bayern, History
At the end of the Second World War most of Bavaria was occupied by the US Army and administrated by the Office of Military Government. Within the US occupation zone all football competitions, clubs and matches had to be approved by the Military Government. In late 1945 the Military Government permitted the formation of the Oberliga Süd as the new first division of football within the US occupation zone. Of the Bavarian clubs, 1. FC Nürnberg, TSV 1860 Munich, FC Bayern Munich, TSV Schwaben Augsburg, BC Augsburg, FC Schweinfurt 05 and SpVgg Fürth joined this league. The participation of the Bavarian clubs in the Oberliga rather than a regional Bavarian competition lead to initial conflict between those clubs and the organisation that would later become the Bavarian Football Association.


1945–46 Landesliga Bayern, History
Below this, the new Landesliga Bayern was established as the second tier with nine clubs in the league, with the clubs selected through their performance in the Gauliga Bayern which became defunct in 1945. The league officially began operating in the spring of 1946 and, like all regional leagues in Bavaria in that season, were seen as a qualifying competition for a more organised season in 1946–47. 1. FC Bamberg became the first champion of this league which was operated under the very difficult post-war circumstances.


1945–46 Landesliga Bayern, History
Bamberg earned promotion to the Oberliga while no club was relegated from this league to the Landesliga Bayern. The league was expanded from a single division of nine clubs to two divisions of eleven clubs each. Therefore, no club was relegated from the Landesliga. From the 1948–48 season the league became known as the Bayernliga, the name it carries today.


1945–46 Landesliga Bayern, 1945–46 Standings
Of the nine clubs taking part in the inaugural season of the league 1. FC Bamberg had played in the Gauliga Oberfranken in the heavily disrupted and incomplete 1944–45 season, FC Eintracht Nürnberg had played in the Gauliga Mittelfranken, Jahn Regensburg in the Gauliga Oberpfalz/Niederbayern and Bajuwaren München and Wacker München in the Gauliga München/Oberbayern. Of the other clubs VfR Schweinfurt and Kickers Würzburg had played in the Gauliga Nordbayern in 1943–44, VfB Ingolstadt-Ringsee in the Gauliga Südbayern while ASV Nürnberg had not played in the Gauliga since 1937.


1945–46 League of Ireland
The 1945–46 League of Ireland was the 25th season of senior football in the Republic of Ireland.


1945–46 League of Ireland, Changes from 1944–45
Brideville failed to get re-elected and were replaced by Waterford, who returned after a five-year absence.


1945–46 League of Ireland, Season overview
Cork United successfully defended their title, winning their fifth title in six years.


1945–46 Luxembourg National Division
The 1945–46 Luxembourg National Division was the 32nd season of top level association football in Luxembourg.


1945–46 Luxembourg National Division, Overview
It was performed in 10 teams, and Stade Dudelange won the championship.


1945–46 Macedonian Republic League
The 1945–46 Macedonian Republic League was the 2nd since its establishment. Pobeda Skopje (a one of two forerunners of FK Vardar) won their first championship title.


1945–46 Maltese Premier League
The 1945–46 Maltese First Division was the 31st season of top-tier football in Malta. The competition was contested by 7 teams, and Valletta F.C. won the championship.


1945–46 Manchester United F.C. season
The 1945–46 season was Manchester United's seventh and last season in the non-competitive War League during the Second World War. With the ending of the war, the FA Cup returned in January 1946, with Manchester United losing 3–2 on aggregate to Preston North End in the Fourth Round.


1945–46 Manchester United F.C. season
Matt Busby had been appointed as the successor to Walter Crickmer as manager in February 1945, and officially took over the position on 1 October, following his demobilisation from the British Army. He was joined by head coach Jimmy Murphy in early 1946.


1945–46 Mexican Primera División season
Statistics of the Primera División de México for the 1945–46 season.


1945–46 Mexican Primera División season, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Veracruz won the championship.


1945–46 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
The 1945–46 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate basketball during the 1945–46 season. The team finished the season in seventh place in the Big Ten Conference with an overall record of 12–7 and 6–6 against conference opponents.


1945–46 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
Bennie Oosterbaan was in his eighth and final year as the team's head coach. Glen Selbo was the team's leading scorer with 212 points in 19 games for an average of 11.2 points per game. Dave Strack was the team captain.


1945–46 Montreal Canadiens season
The 1945–46 Montreal Canadiens season was the Canadiens' 37th season of play. The Canadiens placed first during the regular season to qualify for the playoffs. The Canadiens defeated the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Finals to win the Stanley Cup for the sixth time.


1945–46 Montreal Canadiens season, Montreal Canadiens 1946 Stanley Cup champions, Coaching and administrative staff
† Left off cup, but included on the team picture.


1945–46 NCAA men's basketball season
The 1945–46 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1945, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1946 NCAA Basketball Tournament Championship Game on March 26, 1946, at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. The Oklahoma A&M Aggies won their second NCAA national championship with a 43–40 victory over the North Carolina Tar Heels.


1945–46 NCAA men's basketball season, Coaching changes
A number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.


1945–46 NHL season
The 1945–46 NHL season was the 29th season of the National Hockey League. The Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup, defeating the Boston Bruins for the team's sixth championship.


1945–46 NHL season, League business
Since World War II had ended, the NHL and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) reverted to the pre-war agreement not to sign any junior ice hockey players without permission. CAHA secretary George Dudley stated that tryout contracts must be honoured, and junior-aged players on NHL reserve lists must be reinstated as amateurs to return to the CAHA. The wartime practice of the NHL borrowing amateur players for three games or less was discontinued. The NHL and the CAHA discussed updates the financial terms of the agreement. The NHL offered a flat payment of $20,000 to signing amateurs, which Dudley felt it was too low. The CAHA ultimately accepted the lump sum payment, preferring not to break its alliance with the NHL.


1945–46 NHL season, League business
Synchronized red lights to signal goals were made obligatory for all NHL rinks.


1945–46 NHL season, League business
It was rumoured in the press that Lester Patrick planned to retire as general manager of the New York Rangers. On February 22, 1946, he announced his retirement from the general manager position, however he would stay on as vice president of Madison Square Garden.


1945–46 NHL season, League business
The NHL and the International Ice Hockey Association agreed to mutually enforce suspensions for players not fulfilling a tryout contract.


1945–46 NHL season, Regular season
Veterans came back to their teams this year, as World War II ended, but many found they could not regain their form. One who did regain his form was the man formerly known as "Mr. Zero"—Boston Bruins' goaltender Frank Brimsek. He was shelled in an 8–3 contest with Chicago, but got better game by game. The Bruins had first place at one point, then finished second. Brimsek made the Second All-Star Team as a result.


1945–46 NHL season, Regular season
Max Bentley of Chicago led the league in scoring, and, because of the "Pony Line" including him, his brother Doug and Bill Mosienko, the Black Hawks were in first place at one point. But misfortune hit the Hawks when Doug Bentley injured his knee in a January 23 game and the team sagged.


1945–46 NHL season, Regular season
Frank Patrick, former Pacific Coast Hockey Association president and former managing director for the NHL, suffered a heart attack and was not released from the hospital for several weeks.


1945–46 NHL season, Regular season
A bombshell exploded on January 30, 1946, when defenceman Babe Pratt was expelled from the NHL for betting on games. However, he only bet on his own team and appealed his expulsion. On his promise he would not bet on any more games, he was reinstated. Pratt missed 9 games during his suspension.


1945–46 NHL season, Regular season
Maple Leaf Gaye Stewart led the league in goals with 37, but Toronto finished fifth and missed the playoffs for the first time since playing at Maple Leaf Gardens.


1945–46 NHL season, Regular season
Bill Durnan equalled George Hainsworth's record of three consecutive Vezina Trophies and led the league in shutouts with 4.


1945–46 NHL season, Playoffs, Semifinals, (1) Montreal Canadiens vs. (3) Chicago Black Hawks
The Montreal Canadiens finished first in the league with 61 points. The Chicago Blackhawks finished third with 53 points. This was the seventh playoff meeting between these two teams with the teams splitting the six previous series. They last met in the 1944 Stanley Cup Finals where Montreal won in four games. Montreal won this year's ten game regular season series earning eleven of twenty points.


1945–46 NHL season, Playoffs, Semifinals, (2) Boston Bruins vs. (4) Detroit Red Wings
The Boston Bruins finished second in the league with 56 points. The Detroit Red Wings finished fourth with 50 points. This was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams with Detroit winning the three of the four previous series. They last met in the previous year's Stanley Cup Semifinals where the Red Wings won in seven games. Boston won this year's ten game regular season series earning eleven of twenty points.


1945–46 NHL season, Playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals
This was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams with the teams splitting the four previous series. They last met in the 1943 Stanley Cup Semifinals where Boston won in five games. Montreal won this year's ten game regular season series earning eleven of twenty points.


1945–46 NHL season, Awards
The NHL changed the criteria for the Vezina Trophy to award it to the goaltender who plays the most games for the team which gives up the fewest goals in the season.


1945–46 NHL season, Player statistics, Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals, A = Assists, PTS = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes


1945–46 NHL season, Player statistics, Leading goaltenders
Note: GP = Games played; Min – Minutes Played; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts


1945–46 NHL season, Debuts
The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1945–46 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):


1945–46 NHL season, Last games
The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1945–46 (listed with their last team):


1945–46 National Football League (Ireland)
The 1945–46 National Football League was the 15th staging of the National Football League, an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.


1945–46 National Football League (Ireland)
The NFL returned after the four-year gap due to The Emergency / Second World War. Meath won, beating Wexford in the final.


1945–46 National Football League (Ireland), Format
There were four divisions – Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western. Division winners played off for the NFL title.


1945–46 National Hurling League
The 1945–46 National Hurling League was the 15th season of the National Hurling League. This was the first league to be played since 1940-41 because of fuel shortages and rationing during the Emergency.


1945–46 National Hurling League, Resumption
In August 1945 the Central Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association announced that they would resume the National Leagues in both hurling and Gaelic football. It was decided to divide the participating teams into small groups to ensure minimum travelling and in an effort to reduce costs due to the strict fuel rationing measures which remained due to World War II.


1945–46 National Hurling League, National Hurling League
Cork came into the season as defending champions of the 1940-41 season.


1945–46 National Hurling League, National Hurling League
On 21 July 1946, Clare won the title following a 2-10 to 2-5 win over Dublin in a replay of the final. It was their first ever league title.


1945–46 Nationalliga A, Overview
The Nationalliga A was contested by 14 teams this season and Servette FC Genève won the championship. La Chaux-de-Fonds and Zürich were relegated.


1945–46 Nationalliga A, Overview
The Nationalliga B was contested by 14 teams. Basel won the league and were promoted together with Urania Genève Sport. SC Zug and SC Derendingen finished level on points at the bottom of the table. Zug won the play-off and saved themselves from relegation. Étoile-Sporting and Derendingen were relegated to the 1st League.


1945–46 Nationalliga A season
The 1945–46 Nationalliga A season was the eighth season of the Nationalliga A, the top level of ice hockey in Switzerland. Seven teams participated in the league, and HC Davos won the championship.


1945–46 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Final round, Play-off
1945–46 play-off competition of places 1–5 of both competitions (matches against teams in "own" class not played anymore, results of these matches copied from original competition).


1945–46 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Final round, Relegation round
1945–46 relegation competition of places 6–10 of both competitions (matches against teams in "own" class not played anymore, results of these matches copied from original competition).


1945–46 Netherlands Football League Championship
The Netherlands Football League Championship 1945–1946 was contested by 66 teams participating in six divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern, northern, two southern and two western football divisions of the Netherlands. HFC Haarlem won this year's championship by beating AFC Ajax, sc Heerenveen, NAC, NEC Nijmegen and Limburgia.


1945–46 Netherlands Football League Championship, Divisions, Eerste Klasse South-I
Transferred to South-II Team moving to Division South-II next season.


1945–46 New York Rangers season
The 1945–46 New York Rangers season was the 20th season for the team in the National Hockey League (NHL). During the regular season, the Rangers compiled a 13–28–9 record and finished with 35 points. With a last-place finish, the Rangers did not qualify for the NHL playoffs.


1945–46 New York Rangers season, Playoffs
The Rangers finished the season in last place in the NHL for the fourth consecutive season and missed the 1946 Stanley Cup playoffs.


1945–46 New York Rangers season, Player statistics
†Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Rangers. Stats reflect time with Rangers only. ‡Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.


1945–46 Newport County A.F.C. season
The 1945–46 season was Newport County's first full season since the 1938–39 season. The club competed in the Football League South, a temporary division consisting of the half of the First and Second Division teams geographically farthest south.


1945–46 Northern Football League
The 1945–46 Northern Football League season was the 48th in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.


1945–46 Northern Football League, Clubs
From the 14 clubs which competed in the 1939-40 season:


1945–46 Northern Rugby Football League season
The 1945–46 Rugby Football League season was the 51st season of rugby league football.


1945–46 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary
Wigan won their fifth Championship when they defeated Huddersfield 13-4 in the play-off final. They had also finished the regular season as the league leaders.


1945–46 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary
The Challenge Cup Winners were  Wakefield Trinity who defeated Wigan 13-12 in the final.


1945–46 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary
Bramley, Broughton Rangers, Hull Kingston Rovers, Liverpool Stanley, Rochdale Hornets, Salford, Swinton, Warrington and Widnes returned following the Second World War. Workington Town also entered a team for the first time.


1945–46 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary
Jim Sullivan of Wigan ended his career this season as the all-time record scorer of goals with 2,867.


1945–46 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary
Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Wakefield Trinity won the Yorkshire League. Widnes beat Wigan 7–3 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Bradford Northern beat Wakefield Trinity 5–2 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.


1945–46 Northern Rugby Football League season, Championship, Play-offs
The Championship Play-off Final was played at Manchester City Football Club on Sat 18 May. Wigan's scorers were:


1945–46 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup
The final returned to Wembley following the end of the Second World War. Wakefield Trinity beat Wigan 13-12 in front of a crowd of 54,730. This was Wakefield Trinity’s second Challenge Cup Final win in three final appearances. Their centre, Billy Stott was awarded the inaugural Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.


1945–46 Northern Rugby Football League season, European Championship
The tri-nation tournament was played between November 1945 and March 1946 as single round robin games between England, France and Wales. This was the fifth Rugby League European Championship, and was won by England on points average. Match Details


1945–46 Norwegian Ice Hockey Championship season
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1945–46 Norwegian Ice Hockey Championship season
The 1945–46 Norwegian Ice Hockey Championship season was the seventh season of ice hockey in Norway, first since 1940. Sportsklubben Forward won the championship.


1945–46 Norwegian Ice Hockey Championship season, Results
There were four groups played, one in Trondheim, and three in Oslo. The winners from the group rounds qualified for the semifinals, and the semifinal winners qualified for the final.


1945–46 OB I bajnoksag season
The 1945–46 OB I bajnokság season was the ninth season of the OB I bajnokság, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. 10 teams participated in the league, and BKE Budapest won the championship.


1945–46 Oberliga
The 1945–46 Oberliga  was the inaugural season of the Oberliga, the first tier of the football league system in Allied-occupied Germany. The league operated in seven regional divisions, Berlin (four divisions), South and Southwest. For the second consecutive season no German championship was held. The competition would resume in 1948 with 1. FC Nürnberg taking out the first post-war championship.


1945–46 Oberliga
In the British and Soviet occupation zone no Oberligas were organised. In the former the Oberliga Nord and Oberliga West commenced play in the 1947–48 season while, in the Soviet zone, the DDR-Oberliga was organised from 1949 onwards.


1945–46 Oberliga
In the French occupation zone the Oberliga Südwest operated only in the north with the southern division established in the following season.


1945–46 Oberliga
In the American occupation zone, with the approval of the US occupation authorities, the Oberliga Süd kicked off on 4 November 1945.


1945–46 Oberliga
In post-Second World War Germany many clubs were forced to change their names or merge. This policy was particularly strongly enforced in the Soviet and French occupation zones but much more relaxed in the British and US one. In most cases clubs eventually reverted to their original names, especially after the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949.


1945–46 Oberliga, Oberliga Berlin
The 1945–46 season was the inaugural season of the league. The league champions of each division advanced to the championship round. At the end of the season the league was reduced from four divisions of nine teams each to a single division with twelve clubs.


1945–46 Oberliga, Oberliga Südwest
The 1945–46 season was the inaugural season of the league.


1945–46 Oberliga, Oberliga Südwest, Southern group
The southern division of the Oberliga Südwest commenced in 1946–47. In the 1945–46 season regional leagues were played with a final to determine which club would play the northern division winner in the French occupation zone championship:


1945–46 Oberliga, Oberliga Südwest, Final
The French occupation zone championship was decided in a set of finals between the northern and southern champions:


1945–46 Oberliga, Oberliga Süd
The 1945–46 season was the inaugural season of the league. No team was relegated at the end of season as the league was expanded to 20 teams.


1945–46 Oberliga, German championship
For the second consecutive season, no German championship was held. The competition would resume the following season.


1945–46 Oklahoma A&M Aggies men's basketball team
The 1945–46 Oklahoma A&M Aggies men's basketball team represented Oklahoma A&M College, now known as Oklahoma State University, in NCAA competition in the 1945–46 season. The Aggies won their second consecutive NCAA championship, defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels by a score of 43–40 in the championship game of the NCAA Tournament. Oklahoma A&M was also retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.


1945–46 Panhellenic Championship
The 1945–46 Panhellenic Championship was the 12th season of the highest football league of Greece and the first after the WW2. The clubs that participated were the champions from the three founding football associations of the HFF: Athens, Piraeus and Macedonia.


1945–46 Panhellenic Championship
The championship was won by Aris for their 3rd title. Innitialy, with the completion of all 6 matches, Aris held the first place in the standings. But then the HFF accepted the objections of his opponents for illegal use of the player Siotis (which he played in two clubs at the same season), awarding 2-0 in their favor, the last 3 of his 4 games (an away draw against AEK Athens and home wins against Olympiacos and AEK), while at the same time zeroed the club of Thessaloniki for those games.


1945–46 Panhellenic Championship
For a few days, the ranking was formed with the declaration of the AEK as champion by the HFF and Aris bringing the issue to its general assembly. In the end, Aris was vindicated in the appeal and won the title. The point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.


1945–46 Polska Liga Hokejowa season
The 1945–46 Polska Liga Hokejowa season was the 11th season of the Polska Liga Hokejowa, the top level of ice hockey in Poland. Four teams participated in the final round, and KS Cracovia won the championship.


1945–46 Port Vale F.C. season
The 1945–46 season was Port Vale's third and final season of football in the wartime league system of World War II. Despite low expectations the club turned a profit in the Third Division (South) North, finishing third in the initial table. They reached the third round of the FA Cup, though ended the season with a disappointing finish in the Third Division (South) North Cup. Overall though the club were in healthy position to resume playing in the Football League the following season.


1945–46 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview
The Port Vale management were concerned to learn that they were to compete in the Third Division (South) region for the 1945–46 season, which they felt would result in less revenue and greater expenditure than being in the North division, even though they were still somewhat confusingly placed in the North region of the South Division. They appointed 33-year old former Coventry City half-back Billy Frith as the club's new manager, as predecessor David Pratt was unable to gain release from the Royal Air Force.


1945–46 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview
Again the playing squad was made up mainly of young players and guests, with Scottish inside-right Isaac McDowell being a regular guest. They opened the campaign with three victories from three games, Ralph Gregory proving a revelation on leave from the Royal Marines, scoring a hat-trick in a 4–3 win at Norwich City. However seven games without a victory began with the return fixture with Norwich, before they were boosted by the return of the now demobilised goalkeeper Arthur Jepson. They picked up six of a possible eight points in October and continued their good form right up until the end of the league programme on New Year's Day. They finished in third-place with 24 points in 20 games, eight points behind champions Queens Park Rangers.


1945–46 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview
The progressed past Wellington Town and Liverpool County Combination amateurs Marine to reach the third round of the FA Cup, which was now being played over two legs. They "put up a grand show" against Bradford (Park Avenue) at Park Avenue, losing 2–1. They then had to settle for a 1–1 draw at home, being denied a penalty and then having a goal ruled out for offside late in the game. A 16 game Third Division (South) North Cup series then began, with the top two teams entering the division's semi-finals.


1945–46 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview
Though they fared poorly, they were fortunate enough to have goalkeeper George Heppell demobilised in time to take the place of an injured Arthur Jepson. Tommy Cheadle made his club debut in a 4–1 home victory over Ipswich Town on 2 March. However this was only one of two victories in the final ten games as Frith experimented with different line-ups in an effort to find a winning combination. They ended the season in eighth-place, picking up 14 points from 16 games. Bill Pointon proved to be a consistent goalscorer, hitting 19 goals in all. The club made a profit of £1,265 on the season, having made a healthy £13,475 in gate receipt money. The City Council agreed to extend the lease on the Old Recreation Ground until June 1950, leaving ample time for Vale Park to be constructed.


1945–46 Primeira Divisão, Overview
It was contested by 12 teams, and C.F. Os Belenenses won the championship, the first time that the competition had been won by a team outside the Portuguese "Big Three" (Os Três Grandes) of Benfica, Porto and Sporting.


1945–46 Rangers F.C. season
The 1945–46 season was the 7th and final year of wartime football by Rangers.


1945–46 Ranji Trophy
The 1945–46 Ranji Trophy was the 12th season of the Ranji Trophy. Holkar won the title defeating Baroda in the final.


1945–46 Ranji Trophy, Zonal Matches, West Zone
(T) - Advanced to next round by spin of coin.


1945–46 Real Madrid CF season
The 1945–46 season was Real Madrid Club de Fútbol's 43rd season in existence and the club's 14th consecutive season in the top flight of Spanish football.


1945–46 Real Madrid CF season, Summary
The club finished on a decent 4th spot in League five points below Champions Sevilla CF under management of Jacinto Quincoces The squad reached the 1946 Copa del Generalísimo Final after defeated Alcoyano and clinched its eighth Cup title after defeated Valencia CF thanks to Sabino Barinaga and 2 goals of Pruden.


1945–46 Real Madrid CF season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1945–46 Rochdale A.F.C. season
The 1945–46 season saw Rochdale compete for their 7th and final season in the wartime league (Division 3 North West). The season consisted of 36 matches, 18 of which were in the First Championship, and the remainder were in the 2nd Championship and Division 3 North West Cup. Rochdale finished in second place in the first championship. This season also saw the return of the F.A. Cup, in which Rochdale reached the third round.


1945–46 Rochester Royals season
The 1945–46 Rochester Royals season was the franchise's first season in the National Basketball League.


1945–46 Romanian Hockey League season
The 1945–46 Romanian Hockey League season was the 17th season of the Romanian Hockey League. Five teams participated in the league, and Juventus București won the championship.


1945–46 Romanian Hockey League season, Regular season
Tournament in Cluj (19-24 january 1946, in the park by the lake in front of the restaurant)


1945–46 Romanian Hockey League season, Regular season
HC Juventus: Dron, C.Ratiu, Anastasiu, Sadovsky, Pana, Petrovici, Amirovici, Fl. Popescu, Tanase, Cosman, Panenka, Zografi


1945–46 Romanian Hockey League season, Regular season
1.02, HC Juventus București - PTT 5-0 (1-0, 2-0, 2-0)


1945–46 Romanian Hockey League season, Regular season
PTT: Spiru, Pascu, Florea, Simionescu, Mardarescu, Nimereala, Stanculescu, Wanieck, Gutu


1945–46 Romanian Hockey League season, Regular season
PTT - HC Venus Bucuresti (annulled, melted ice, warm wind)


1945–46 Romanian Hockey League season, Regular season
CS Târgu Mureș - HC Juventus București (annulled, melted ice, warm wind)


1945–46 SK Rapid Wien season
The 1945–46 SK Rapid Wien season was the 48th season in club history.


1945–46 SM-sarja season
The 1945–46 SM-sarja season was the 15th season of the SM-sarja, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. Nine teams participated in the league, and Ilves Tampere won the championship.


1945–46 Scottish Districts season
The 1945–46 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.


1945–46 Scottish Districts season, History
The Inter-City fixture between Glasgow District and Edinburgh District resumed after the Second World War.


1945–46 Segunda División
The 1945–46 Segunda División season was the 15th since its establishment and was played between 23 September 1945 and 31 March 1946.


1945–46 Segunda División, Overview before the season
14 teams joined the league, including three relegated from the 1944–45 La Liga and three promoted from the 1944–45 Tercera División.


1945–46 Serie B-C Alta Italia
This championship was organized with geographical criteria with Serie B and the best Serie C teams from northern Italy taking part. For this reason, it is not included in the statistics even if it was an official tournament.


1945–46 Serie B-C Alta Italia
Ausonia Spezia was admitted to Serie B after the announcement of Spezia that had asked to be admitted to Serie A. After the refusal of FIGC, Spezia decided to join the regional leagues. Ultimately, Spezia was admitted to Serie B in the following season, replacing Ausonia.


1945–46 Serie B-C Alta Italia, Teams
Northern Italy had 12 Serie B clubs: six regular and three re-admitted teams of the last pre-war season, and three clubs promoted from Serie C. However, newly-promoted Varese obtained a yearly break for huge wartime damages.


1945–46 Serie B-C Alta Italia, Teams
All Serie C guests advancing to the final round were granted a titular Serie B licence.


1945–46 Serie B-C Alta Italia, Footnotes
On 16 May 1946 the Lega Calcio was created. Under agreements between FIGC, Northern and Southern clubs, all clubs from this championship out of the last ones were admitted to the Northern Serie B.


1945–46 Serie C
The 1945–46 Serie C was a special edition of Serie C, the third highest league in the Italian football league system. Best clubs of Northern Italy were admitted as special guests into the 1945–46 Serie B-C Alta Italia.


1945–46 Serie C, Northern Italy
Northern Italy sides were divided in several rounds (gironi). The winners qualified to a tournament to determine the only team promoted to 1946–47 Serie B. None of the teams relegated.


1945–46 Serie C, Central and Southern Italy
All the winners of the rounds (gironi) were promoted to 1946–47 Serie B; however, clubs participating as special guests could not be promoted. Later other teams were admitted to Serie B to create a southern round.


1945–46 Southern Football League
The 1945–46 Southern Football League season was the 43rd in the history of the league, an English football competition.


1945–46 Southern Football League
It was the first season after the break caused by World War II.


1945–46 Southern Football League
Not all league competitions resumed in 1945 (the Football League did not restart until 1946–47) and six clubs that had featured in the 1939–40 season had left the league, whilst there were four new clubs, Bedford Town, Colchester United, Swindon Town II and Cardiff City II.


1945–46 Southern Football League
Chelmsford City were champions, winning their first Southern League title. At the end of the season Cardiff City and Swindon Town resigned their second teams from the league.


1945–46 Southern Football League (Scotland)
The 1945–46 Southern Football League was the sixth and last edition of the regional war-time football league tournament in Scotland.


1945–46 Southern Football League (Scotland)
With the war itself at an end, the clubs from the North Eastern League joined the setup, although only Aberdeen (who had won 4 of the 8 North Eastern tournaments) participated in the A Division; the rest of the clubs were placed in the B Division along with some from the Southern region including those who had finished at the foot of the table in its previous season.


1945–46 Southern Football League (Scotland)
Rangers were the last winners, thus completing a clean sweep of the seven wartime league seasons including the Emergency League in 1939–40. The Glasgow club had also won the final regular championship in 1938–39, and went on to win the next after official competitions were resumed in the 1946–47 season.


1945–46 Southern League Cup (Scotland)
The 1945–46 Southern League Cup was the sixth and final edition of the regional war-time football tournament. The North Eastern League and North Eastern League Cup had ended the previous season, teams from those competitions joined the Southern League and Southern League Cup. With the Southern League now acting effectively as a national league the competition was split into two Divisions, The league cup was therefore also split into two divisions.


1945–46 Southern League Cup (Scotland)
Aberdeen won the tournament, defeating Rangers 3–2 in the final at Hampden Park before a crowd of 135,000. This was the last edition of the competition, but the trophy itself was used again for the 1946 Victory Cup played only a few weeks later (won by Rangers), therefore Aberdeen only possessed the cup for a short time. The same teams met in first official Scottish League Cup final the following year.


1945–46 Stoke City F.C. season
The 1945–46 season was Stoke City's eleventh and final season in the non-competitive War League.


1945–46 Stoke City F.C. season
In 1939 World War II was declared and the Football League was cancelled. In its place were formed War Leagues and cups, based on geographical lines rather than based on previous league placement. However, none of these were considered to be competitive football, and thus their records are not recognised by the Football League and thus not included in official records. The FA Cup made a welcome return after seven years out. However Stoke were involved in the Burnden Park disaster.


1945–46 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review
Crowds up and down the country, including Stoke's were now beginning to show an increase as the situation in Europe began to improve and when the 1945–46 season commenced there was a feeling that the Football League would not be too long in starting up again, especially now that the FA Cup was reinstated into the fixture list, with clubs playing ties over two legs. For the final war time league season the idea of two phases of league fixtures was scrapped and a more traditional format took its place and Stoke finished in 13th position.


1945–46 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review
In the FA Cup Stoke progressed past Burnley and both Sheffield clubs United then Wednesday before drawing Bolton Wanderers in the quarter final. The first leg was played at the Victoria Ground on 2 March 1946, Bolton won the match 2–0 to put them in prime position to reach the semi final. However tragedy struck in the second leg at Burnden Park as crush barriers gave way on part of the terracing and 33 spectators were killed with another 520 injured. The match itself was delayed from some time and it eventually finished goalless.


1945–46 Stoke City F.C. season, Squad statistics
Note: Only the FA Cup appearances are considered as official competitive matches


1945–46 Sussex County Football League
The 1945–46 Sussex County Football League season was the 21st in the history of the competition.


1945–46 Sussex County Football League
Teams were placed into two separate leagues, Eastern Division and Western Division. With the winners of each league playing in a play-off to decide the overall winner.


1945–46 Sussex County Football League, Clubs
The league featured 17 clubs, 11 which competed in the 1939–40 season, along with six new clubs:


1945–46 Svenska mästerskapet (men's handball)
The 1945–46 Svenska mästerskapet was the 15th season of Svenska mästerskapet, a tournament held to determine the Swedish Champions of men's handball. Teams qualified by winning their respective District Championships. 22 teams competed in the tournament. Majornas IK were the four-time defending champions, and won their seventh title, defeating Upsala IF in the final. The final was played on 31 March in Mässhallen in Gothenburg, and was watched by 1,990 spectators.


1945–46 Svenska mästerskapet (men's handball), Champions
The following players for Majornas IK received a winner's medal: Stig Salomonsson, Sven-Eric Forsell, Stig Neptun, Claes Hedenskog, Lennart Lorentzson (1 goal in the final), Gunnar Lindgren (2), Torsten Henriksson (3), Bengt Wiking (2), Bo Sundby (1) and Stig Nilsson (2).


1945–46 Swedish Division I season
The 1945–46 Swedish Division I season was the second season of Swedish Division I. Hammarby IF defeated Sodertalje SK in the league final, 2 games to 1.


1945–46 Swedish football Division 2
Statistics of Swedish football Division 2 for the 1945–46 season.


1945–46 Swedish football Division 2, League standings, Division 2 Norra 1945–46
Teams from a large part of northern Sweden, approximately above the province of Medelpad, were not allowed to play in the national league system until the 1953–54 season.


1945–46 Swedish football Division 3
Statistics of Swedish football Division 3 for the 1945–46 season.


1945–46 Taça de Portugal
The 1945–46 Taça de Portugal was the 8th season of the Taça de Portugal (English: Portuguese Cup), the premier Portuguese football knockout competition, organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). Sporting Clube de Portugal was the defending champion and played Atlético Clube de Portugal in the final on 30 June 1946.


1945–46 Tercera División
The 1945–46 Tercera División was the 10th edition of the Spanish third national tier. The competition was divided into 3 phases.


1945–46 Tercera División, Regular season, Group 10 repechage
Between Cadiz and Tetuán was played a match to play on this group, Cádiz promoted.


1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season
The 1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 29th season of play of the Toronto NHL franchise. Although the club was the defending Stanley Cup champion, the team's play declined and the club finished in fifth, missing the playoffs.


1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason
Cup hero goaltender Frank McCool held out. The Maple Leafs decided to play the tandem of Baz Bastien and Gordie Bell.


1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Regular season
Without Frank McCool, the team only won three of the first thirteen games, and the Leafs and McCool came to terms. The club continued to struggle and only won eight of the first 28 games. Turk Broda returned from war-time duty in January, but the team continued to struggle. All-Star defenceman Babe Pratt was suspended, but was reinstated after nine games. The team won only two of the nine games and dropped out of playoff contention. The club finished in fifth place, out of the playoffs. The team was only the second team to miss the playoffs after winning the Cup.


1945–46 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team
The 1945–46 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1945–46 NCAA basketball season and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. Led by seventh-year head coach Wilbur Johns, the Bruins were 8–16 overall and were third in the PCC southern division with a record of 5–7.


1945–46 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Previous season
The Bruins finished the regular season with a record of 12–12 and won the  PCC southern division for the first time with a record of 3–1.


1945–46 USM Blida season
In the 1945–46 season, USM Blida is competing in the Division Honneur for the 14th season French colonial era, as well as the Forconi Cup. They will be competing in Division Honneur, and the North African Cup.


1945–46 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season
The 1945–46 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 51st season of collegiate ice hockey in the United States.


1945–46 Victory Internationals
The so-called Victory Internationals is a list of rugby union matches played in Europe from 1945 to 1946 between British, New Zealand and French rugby union representatives.


1945–46 Victory Internationals
During the Second World War, international matches were suspended, with the exception of some matches between Italy, Germany and Romania. Earlier, in June 1939, France was re-admitted to play in the 1940 international match against British teams, but the so-called "Five Nations" championship could start only in 1947.


1945–46 Victory Internationals
The international matches were not recognized as "official" ("capped matches") by British unions due to the absence of many players still serving in the armed forces in European and Pacific ocean theatres. France however did award full caps for each of these games.


1945–46 Victory Internationals
The New Zealand selection was called the "Kiwis", and was also known as the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force Rugby Team (a group of New Zealand soldiers), a name derived from 2NZEF. Like its British counterparts, it did not award any notional cap, but this team eventually became widely recognized in its country and more than half of the Kiwi players ended up also playing for the All Blacks.


1945–46 Victory Internationals
The activity restarted on 1 January 1945, with a match between France and a British Army selection, played in Colombes, followed by a match played at Richmond on 28 April, between a "British Empire XV" and France. More regular matches were played between December 1945 and April 1946.


1945–46 Victory Internationals
In 2013, the Welsh Rugby Union finally decided to award a cap for all the otherwise uncapped Welsh players who took part in the 1945 and 1946 matches against France.


1945–46 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
The 1945–46 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Washington for the 1945–46 NCAA college basketball season. Led by 26th-year head coach Hec Edmundson, the Huskies were members of the Pacific Coast Conference and played their home games on campus at the UW Pavilion in Seattle, Washington.


1945–46 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
The Huskies were 14–14 overall in the regular season and 6–10 in conference play; fourth in the Northern division.


1945–46 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team
The 1945–46 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team represented Washington State College for the 1945–46 college basketball season. Led by eighteenth-year head coach Jack Friel, the Cougars were members of the Pacific Coast Conference and played their home games on campus at the WSC Gymnasium in Pullman, Washington.


1945–46 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team
The Cougars were 16–13 overall in the regular season and 5–11 in conference play, last place in the Northern division.


1945–46 Western Football League
The 1945–46 season was the 44th in the history of the Western Football League.


1945–46 Western Football League
This was the first season of the Western League since it was suspended at the end of the 1939–40 season due to World War II. The champions for the fifth time in their history were Bristol Rovers Reserves. For the following season, more clubs joined and the league was once again divided into two divisions.


1945–46 Western Football League, Final table
The league consisted of fourteen clubs: eight clubs continued from the 1939–40 season and they were joined by six new clubs:


1945–46 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team
The 1945–46 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in intercollegiate basketball during the 1945–46 NCAA men's basketball season. Under the only year of head coach Sam B. Holt (who concurrently served as the head baseball coach), the team finished the season 10–10 and 5–5 in the Southern Conference. This was the 41st season of the collegiate basketball program at William & Mary, whose nickname is now the Tribe.


1945–46 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team
The Indians finished in 6th place in the conference and qualified for the 1946 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, hosted by North Carolina State University at the Thompson Gym in Raleigh, North Carolina, where they lost to Wake Forest in the quarterfinals.


1945–46 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team
The 1945–1946 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin–Madison. The head coach was Harold E. Foster, coaching his twelfth season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the UW Fieldhouse in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Big Nine Conference.


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup
The 1945–46 Yorkshire Cup was the thirty-eighth occasion on which the competition had been held.


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup
In this, the  first peacetime Cup final for five years, there is a new name on the  trophy. Bradford Northern who previously won the trophy in 1940–41, 1941–42 and 1943–44, can now lay claim to a genuine trophy (The  wartime competitions were not counted officially in the records)Bradford Northern won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 5-2


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup
The match was played at Thrum Hall, Halifax, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 24,252 and receipts were £1,934


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Background
The Second World War was now over, and things were beginning to return to normal, although still a long way to go. Hull Kingston Rovers and Bramley re-joined the competition and the four Lancashire clubs returned to their own competition. This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, and these changes resulted in the number of entrants falling by two, and leaving a total number of entries at fifteen.


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Background
This in turn resulted in one bye in the first round.


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Background
The  competition reverted to original formula of a knock-out tournament, with the  exception of the  first round which was still played on a two-legged home and away basis.


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Round 1 - First Leg
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Round 1 - Second Leg
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Round 2 - Quarter Finals
All second round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Round 3 – Semi-Finals
Both semi-final ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Final, Teams and Scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, The road to success
All the ties in the  first round were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, The road to success
For the  first round ties, the first club named in each of the ties played the first leg at home.


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, The road to success
For the  first round ties, the scores shown are the aggregate score over the two legs.


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments
1 * The date is given by RUGBYLEAGUEprojec  as Tuesday 16 October, but by the official Hull F.C. archives as Wednesday 17 Oct


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments
2 * Thrum Hall was the home ground of Halifax with a final capacity of 9,832 (The attendance record of 29,153 was set on 21 March 1959 for a third round Challenge Cup tie v  Wigan). The club finally moved out in 1998 to take part ownership and ground-share with Halifax Town FC at The Shay Stadium.


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from  the  county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from  outside the  county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden.


1945–46 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)


1945–46 in Belgian football
The 1945–46 season was the 43rd season of competitive football in Belgium. RFC Malinois won their second Premier Division title. The Belgium national football team played their first match at Wembley against England. This was the first season when the Premier Division top scorer ranking was published, with Albert De Cleyn of champion RFC Malinois finishing as top scorer with 40 goals. During the same season, De Cleyn scored 7 goals with Belgium, 5 of which in a game against Luxembourg.


1945–46 in Belgian football, Overview
At the end of the season, R Tilleur FC and RCS Brugeois were relegated to Division I, while RFC Brugeois (Division I A winner) and K Lyra (Division I B winner) were promoted to Premier Division.


1945–46 in Belgian football, Overview
UC Centre, Stade Nivellois, Waterschei SV Thor, Belgica FC Edegem and CS Andennais were relegated from Division I to Promotion, to be replaced by SC Menen, Mol Sport, Cappellen FC and Stade Waremmien.


1945–46 in Belgian football, Final league tables, Premier Division
Top scorer: Albert De Cleyn (RFC Malinois) with 40 goals.


1945–46 in English football
The 1945–46 season was the 66th season of competitive football in England.


1945–46 in English football, Overview
1945–46 was the first peacetime football season since the 1939–40 season was cut short due to World War II. On 7 May (as the war was ending), it was announced that the FA Cup would be resumed, and that the 44 clubs in the top two divisions of the 1938–39 season would play in the Football League North and Football League South without promotion and relegation from the previous peacetime season.


1945–46 in English football, Overview
This arrangement was debated by the clubs over the following two months – with Wolverhampton Wanderers proposing an immediate return to a peacetime Football League as was to happen in France – before it was agreed at The Football League's annual meeting in London on 25 July that regional leagues should continue for one more season.


1945–46 in English football, Overview
To make up for the lack of quality matches, all FA Cup rounds from round one up to and including the quarter-finals were made two-legged ties (rather than the traditional single matches) with the aggregate score determining who went through to the next round. Derby County eventually won the Cup.


1945–46 in English football, Overview
From the next season, a full football programme was restored, including The Football League and international matches.


1945–46 in English football, Honours
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition


1945–46 in Scottish football
The 1945–46 season was the 73rd season of competitive football in Scotland and the seventh and final season of special wartime football during World War II.


1945–46 in Scottish football, Overview
Between 1939 and 1946 normal competitive football was suspended in Scotland. Many footballers signed up to fight in the war and as a result many teams were depleted, and fielded guest players instead. The Scottish Football League and Scottish Cup were suspended and in their place regional league competitions were set up. Appearances in these tournaments do not count in players' official records.


1945–46 in Scottish football, Honours
In contrast to previous wartime seasons a single league, the Southern League, operated for Scotland with two divisions (although its membership did not include all the pre-war Scottish league clubs). No country-wide cup competition took place, although a number of regional competitions continued including the Glasgow Cup, and a Southern League Cup was competed for, a competition which later formed the basis of the League Cup. In addition a Supplementary Cup was played for by B Division teams.


1945–46 in Scottish football, International
In keeping with the other wartime seasons the Scotland national football team went on official hiatus, although unofficial games, appearances for which do not count towards the final caps totals of participants, continued.


1945–46 in Scottish football, International
Scotland faced England in one such match on 13 April 1946 at Hampden Park. In front of 139, 468 spectators Scotland won 1–0 with a Jimmy Delaney goal in what was dubbed a 'Victory International'. The Scotland line-up featured: Bobby Brown, Davie Shaw, Jock Shaw, Billy Campbell, Frank Brennan, Jackie Husband, Willie Waddell, Neil Dougall, Jimmy Delaney, George Hamilton, Billy Liddell.


1945–46 in Scottish football, International
A second game against England was also played at Maine Road, Manchester on 24 April 1946. This game was neither an official nor a victory international but rather was played as a fundraiser for the victims of the Burnden Park Disaster. A crowd of 70,000 witnessed a 2–2 draw with Willie Thornton scoring twice for Scotland. Their line-up featured: Willie Miller, Davie Shaw, Jock Shaw, Billy Campbell, Frank Brennan, Jackie Husband, Willie Waddell, Neil Dougall, Willie Thornton, George Hamilton, Billy Liddell.


1945–46 in Scottish football, International
For the first time since before the war Scotland also faced opposition other than England. On 23 January 1946 a crowd of 48,830 at Hampden saw Scotland draw 2–2 with Belgium, with Jimmy Delaney scoring both goals. The line-up was: Bobby Brown, Jimmy McGowan, Jock Shaw (captain), Jimmy Campbell, Andy Paton, George Paterson, Gordon Smith, Archibald Baird, Jimmy Delaney, Johnny Deakin, Jimmy Walker. Both the Scottish Football Association and the Royal Belgian Football Association afford this game full international status, although it is not recognised as such by FIFA.


1945–46 in Scottish football, International
In similar circumstances Scotland faced Switzerland at Hampden on 15 May 1946. In front of 111,899 fans Scotland won 3–1 with two from Liddell and one from Delaney. The line-up was: Bobby Brown, Davie Shaw, Jock Shaw, Billy Campbell, Frank Brennan, Jackie Husband, Willie Waddell, Willie Thornton, Jimmy Delaney, Tommy Walker, Billy Liddell.


1945–46 in Swedish football
The 1945–46 season in Swedish football, starting August 1945 and ending July 1946:


1945–46 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Gustav Sjöberg - Harry Nilsson, Börje Leander - Olle Åhlund, Arvid Emanuelsson, Karl-Erik Grahn - Arne Nyberg, Gunnar Gren, Carl Simonsson, Henry Carlsson, Bertil Bäckvall.


1945–46 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Gustav Sjöberg - Harry Nilsson, Gösta Malm - Olle Åhlund, Arvid Emanuelsson, Karl-Erik Grahn - Arne Nyberg, Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl, Henry Carlsson, Stellan Nilsson.


1945–46 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Henry Andersson - Oskar Holmqvist, Ove Karlsson-Widricks - Birger Rosengren, Börje Leander, Lennart Wigren - Malte Mårtensson, Börje Tapper, Knut Nordahl, Erik Holmqvist, Carl-Erik Sandberg.


1945–46 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Gustav Sjöberg - Harry Nilsson, Gösta Malm - Olle Åhlund, Arvid Emanuelsson, Karl-Erik Grahn - Arne Nyberg, Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl, Henry Carlsson, Vincent Persson.


1945–46 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Gustav Sjöberg ( Henry Andersson) - Harry Nilsson, Bertil Nordahl - Olle Åhlund, Arvid Emanuelsson, Rune Emanuelsson - Arne Nyberg, Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl, Henry Carlsson, Erik Holmqvist.


1945–46 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Gustav Sjöberg - Harry Nilsson, Rune Emanuelsson - Olle Åhlund, Arvid Emanuelsson ( Börje Leander), Karl-Erik Grahn - Arne Nyberg, Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl, Henry Carlsson, Stellan Nilsson.


1945–46 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Gustav Sjöberg - Harry Nilsson, Oskar Holmqvist ( Börje Leander) - Olle Åhlund, Bertil Nordahl, Rune Emanuelsson - Arne Nyberg, Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl, Knut Nordahl, Stig Nyström.


1945–46 İstanbul Football League
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1945–46 İstanbul Football League
The 1945–46 Istanbul Football League season was the 38th season of the league. Beşiktaş J.K. won the league for the 9th time. Beşiktaş JK, Fenerbahçe SK, İstanbulspor, and Galatasaray SK qualified for the National League.


1946
1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 946th  year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th  year of the 20th century, and the  7th   year of the 1940s decade.


1946 AAA Championship Car season
The 1946 AAA Championship Car season was the first season of American Championship car racing following World War II. After four years without racing in the United States, the AAA Contest Board was initially concerned about having enough races, enough entrants, and suitable equipment, for a 1946 season. Even the Indianapolis 500 was in doubt, as the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was neglected during the war. Track owner Eddie Rickenbacker sold the track to Tony Hulman in November 1945, by which point it had fallen into a terrible state of disrepair. As the season progressed, it proved to be a success, and marked a successful return of the National Championship. Hulman's swift and herculean effort to renovate Indianapolis allowed for the 1946 Indianapolis 500 to be run as scheduled on May 30, and it was won by George Robson.


1946 AAA Championship Car season
George Robson and George Barringer were killed at Atlanta in the race. Al Putnam died at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Speedway in qualifying.


1946 AAA Championship Car season, Background
Previously, only races of over 100 miles (160 km) on tracks one mile (1.6 km) or longer were able to hold National Championship events. Due to the concerns about the car counts and participation, the AAA Contest Board included a substantial number of "Big Car" races (today known as Sprint Cars) as part of the championship. The season officially consisted of 77 races (6 Champ Car races and 71 Big Car races), beginning at Mechanicsburg on April 14 and concluding at Richmond on November 10. Two non-points, exhibition races were also part of the calendar season.


1946 AAA Championship Car season, Background
After car counts were better than expected, some confusion arose over whether the 71 Big Car events still counted towards the National Championship. Some news publications of the time erroneously reported the points totals from only the six Champ Car events, implying - or simply assuming - that the Big Car races had been dropped. Nevertheless, despite all of the second-guessing and speculation, a full 77-race season was completed.


1946 AAA Championship Car season, Background
The Contest Board met after the season, and it was not until then which they declared the Big Car races would be dropped from the National Championship - effective for 1947. The ruling cemented the notion that the 71 Big Car races were indeed recognized as part of the official 1946 season. Furthermore, the prize money and 1947 car number assignments are consistent with the final points standings reflecting the full 77-race schedule.


1946 AAA Championship Car season, Background
Despite later publications suggesting the season was only six races (including official statistical publications released by the league decades later), historians firmly contend that the 1946 season should be recognized as the full 77-race schedule.


1946 AAA Championship Car season, Background
The AAA National Champion was Ted Horn, and the Indianapolis 500 winner was George Robson. Incidentally, Horn would have been declared the champion with or without the 71 "Big Car" races included, based on his points totals.


1946 AAA Championship Car season, Schedule and results
Scheduled for 100 miles, stopped early due to fatal accident involving George Robson and George Barringer. Rex Mays was leading at the time of the accident, but after a protest, was found to have been involved in the accident and had his win stripped.


1946 AAA Championship Car season, Schedule and results
Note: Bill Holland started on the pole position in the Lakewood Race on July 4 and Ted Horn started on the pole position in the DuBois Race on July 20.


1946 AAA Championship Car season, Leading National Championship standings
† Robson was killed in the race at Lakewood Speedway on September 2


1946 AAA Championship Car season, Alternate schedule and results
The official IndyCar Series Historical Record Book (2011) listed only the six "Champ Car" in the schedule. (page 72)


1946 AAA Championship Car season, Final points standings
Note: The points became the car, when not only one driver led the car, the relieved driver became small part of the points. Points for driver method: (the points for the finish place) / (number the lap when completed the car) * (number the lap when completed the driver)


1946 AAFC season
The 1946 AAFC season was the first season of the All-America Football Conference, a new professional league established to challenge the market dominance of the established National Football League. The league included eight teams, broken up into Eastern and Western divisions, which played a 14-game official schedule, culminating in a league championship game.


1946 AAFC season
The season is significant for its shattering of the color line in the ranks of professional American football, when black athletes Marion Motley and Bill Willis took to the field for the AAFC's Cleveland Browns on September 9, 1946. Both of these stars would later be voted to membership in the Professional Football Hall of Fame.


1946 AAFC season, Background
In September 1944, Arch Ward, sports columnist for the prestigious Chicago Tribune and father ten years earlier of the college all-star football game, presided over two days of meetings in Chicago to finalize his plan for a new American football league. Over the course of several previous months, Ward had garnered financial commitments for franchise ownership from a circle of interested wealthy investors.


1946 AAFC season, Background
Teams were already sponsored for seven cities, with the ownership groups including several individuals of national prominence, such as former heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney in Baltimore, film star Don Ameche in Los Angeles, and Eleanor Gehrig, widow of Yankee baseball great Lou Gehrig, in New York City. Plans were announced for a launch in the fall of 1945.


1946 AAFC season, Background
The new football league planned to emulate the situation existing in professional baseball, in which two parallel and equal leagues emerged and came to work in close cooperation. The new league, to be called the All-America Football Conference, tapped former Notre Dame legend Jim Crowley as its commissioner, signing the former collegiate teammate of NFL commissioner Elmer Layden to a lucrative five-year contract worth $125,000 and began signing players and fielding additional applications for team charters.


1946 AAFC season, Background
Seven coaches and about 30 players were signed before league owners decided that wartime manpower shortages and the inability of several teams to expeditiously obtain stadium leases would force a postponement until the fall of 1946.


1946 AAFC season, Background
An additional franchise was added, bringing the total to eight, and a schedule was issued — a round-robin format in which every team in the league played every other team in the league twice on a home-and-away basis. The new league prepared for its launch on September 6, 1946.


1946 AAFC season, Team alignment
The AAFC was divided into two divisions of four teams, split "Eastern" and "Western" on a geographic basis.


1946 AAFC season, Team alignment
Several of the league's teams played on fields also used by Major League Baseball teams and even made use of baseball team names, including the Brooklyn Dodgers of Ebbets Field, who did battle with the New York Yankees, playing their games at Yankee Stadium.


1946 AAFC season, Team alignment
With two franchises in California, the AAFC broke new ground as the leading purveyor of professional sports on the Pacific coast, being joined for the 1946 season by the NFL champion Cleveland Rams, which were then relocating to Los Angeles.


1946 AAFC season, Team alignment
† — Better known as War Memorial Stadium, also the first home of the NFL's Buffalo Bills.


1946 AAFC season, Preseason
The fledgling AAFC played a total of 7 preseason games in 1946, spaced over a three-week period, with the first exhibition game taking place August 18 in Portland, Oregon, where the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago Rockets battled to a 14-14 tie. Brooklyn would lead the league with three preseason games played; other clubs such as Miami, Buffalo, and Cleveland, would only play a single exhibition contest.


1946 AAFC season, Preseason
Five of the seven preseason contests took place on the West coast, with contests in Portland, Spokane, San Diego, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The two games taking place in the Eastern time zone were held at neutral locations, apparently as a means of broadening potential fan interest, with the Cleveland Browns stopping Brooklyn by a score of 35-20 in Akron, Ohio, and the Buffalo Bisons edging the Miami Seahawks, 23-21, in Baltimore.


1946 AAFC season, Regular season, Week One
The 1946 regular season of the All-America Football Conference kicked off the night of Friday, September 6 at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, where the Cleveland Browns — a team which featured two African-American players, Marion Motley and Bill Willis — hosted the visiting Miami Seahawks. The game, attended by a massive crowd of 60,135, was the largest ever to see a regularly scheduled professional football game. The result was never in doubt, as the Paul Brown-coached Browns, led by quarter back Otto Graham annihilated the hapless Seahawks by a score of 44-0.


1946 AAFC season, Regular season, Week One
The week continued with two games on Sunday, September 9, with the San Francisco 49ers giving up an early lead and falling to the visiting New York Yankees, 21-7, in front of about 35,000 people at Kezar Stadium. In game two, single wing half back Glenn Dobbs passed for one touchdown and lateraled for another midway through a 58-yard scoring run as the visiting Brooklyn Dodgers topped the Buffalo Bisons, 27-14, in front of Commissioner Jim Crowley and a crowd of 25,489 at Buffalo's Civic Stadium. Chicago and Los Angeles had first week byes.


1946 AAFC season, Regular season, Week Two
A four-game slate began with two Friday night tilts on September 13, with the Cleveland Browns giving up their first points of the season in the fourth quarter of a 20-6 drubbing of the Chicago Rockets in front of 51,962 fans at Chicago's Soldier Field. Scoring was opened with a 20-yard run by the Brown's powerful running back Marion Motley, with Lou Groza adding two field goals and two PATs, running his season scoring total to 22 points. Game two was a lightly attended contest in the massive Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, in which the Los Angeles Dons managed to hold on for a 20-14 win over the visiting Brooklyn Dodgers in front of an announced attendance of 19,500.


1946 AAFC season, Regular season, Week Two
On Sunday, 40,606 fans turned out to Yankee Stadium to watch their New York Yankees win a sloppy, turnover-plagued contest over the visiting Buffalo Bisons. A Yankee fumble in the red zone was run back 95 yards for a touchdown by Buffalo's Al Vandeweghe. Despite substantially outgaining Buffalo over the course of the game, it took two touchdowns in the final quarter for the Yankees to achieve a come-from-behind win. In the second Sunday game, Frankie Albert and the San Francisco 49ers made the Miami Seahawks the league's first 0-2 team with a 21-14 victory in front of a reported 25,000 people at Kezar Stadium.


1946 AAFC season, Regular season, Week Three
The league once again split its action between Friday and Sunday in week 3, with the Chicago Rockets salvaging a 17-17 tie with the Yankees thanks to a 36-yard touchdown pass from QB Walt Williams to halfback Bill Boedeker with just 55 seconds remaining. In game 2, about 23,000 fans made their way to the LA Coliseum to see the Dons run their record to 2-0 in a 30-14 victory over the Miami Seahawks. Despite the lopsided final score, the game was close at halftime, with Miami hitting the locker room holding a 14-10 lead. Twenty unanswered points in the second half, with the Dons' Charlie O'Rourke finishing the game with three touchdown passes as part of his 9-17 throwing effort.


1946 AAFC season, Regular season, Week Three
On Sunday, September 22, the mighty Cleveland Browns went to Buffalo and took no prisoners in a 28-0 shutout that was virtually beyond doubt by the end of the first quarter. Cleveland star Otto Graham threw for two more touchdowns, including a 33-yard strike to Marion Motley out of the backfield, as the Browns cruised to their third straight victory. The Browns  allowed just six points in their first three games, establishing themselves as the team to beat in the AAFC in 1946. In game 2, 35,000 people turned out at Kezar Stadium to watch Frankie Albert throw for two touchdowns and run for one more as part of a 32-13 disassembling of the visiting Brooklyn Dodgers. The Niners moved their season record to 2-1.


1946 AAFC season, Regular season, Week Four
The AAFC held its first Wednesday night contest to kick off week 4, drawing 20,768 fans to Soldier Field to witness an offensive shootout, won by the home team Chicago Rockets over the visiting Buffalo Bisons, 38-35. A fourth quarter rally with 17 unanswered point was needed for the Rockets to escape with the narrow win, won with a walk-off chip-shot field goal by Steve Nemeth. The game was marked by the acrimonious departure of head coach Dick Hanley, who watched the game from the stands after leaving the team owing to personal disagreements with owner John L. Keeshin.


1946 AAFC season, Regular season, Week Four
With Brooklyn and Miami on the bye, both the Rockets and the Bisons were needed to play again on Sunday, Sept. 29, just four days later. The previously 0-4 Bisons managed a tie with the visiting Los Angeles Dons, 21-21, while the Rockets played another home game, winning twice in a single week with a 24-7 dispatching of the 49ers. In the final game of the week, the New York Yankees more than doubled the season points allowed total of the Cleveland Browns, scoring a first quarter touchdown en route to a 24-7 loss. The Browns went to 4-0 on the year in the victory.


1946 AAFC season, Regular season, Week Five
The fifth week of the AAFC's inaugural season opened with a pair of Friday night games. In the first, the visiting New York Yankees began to exert Eastern Division dominance with a 21–13 victory over the Buffalo Bisons in front of more than 17,000 fans. Yankee rookie Spec Sanders, league leader in total offense, led the team to victory with a pair of fourth quarter scores — a touchdown pass and a 76-yard punt return to the house. In the second game, the Los Angeles Dons scored 21 unanswered points after halftime to notch a come-from-behind 21–9 victory over the Chicago Rockets at Soldier Field.


1946 AAFC season, Regular season, Week Five
Only one game took place on Sunday, October 6, in which the Cleveland Browns extended their unbeaten record to five games with an easy 26–7 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers in front of 43,713 of the home faithful. The league's first foray into football in the Deep South, a Tuesday tilt between the Seahawks and the visiting San Francisco 49ers was a debacle, with only 7,621 fans passing through the turnstiles to watch the dismantling of the home team by a score of 34–7.


1946 AAFC season, Regular season, 1946 AAFC final standings
W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pct. = Winning PercentagePF = Points Scored For, PA = Point Scored Against


1946 AAFC season, Championship game
AAFC Championship: Cleveland 14, New York 9 (December 22 @ Cleveland)


1946 AAFC season, League leaders, awards, and achievements
Glenn Dobbs led the league in passing yards (1,886), pass completions (135), total offense (2,094 yards), and punting (80 punts averaging 47.8 yards)


1946 AAFC season, League leaders, awards, and achievements
Otto Graham led in passing efficiency (51.7) and touchdown passes (17).


1946 AAFC season, League leaders, awards, and achievements
Spec Sanders led the league in rushing (709 on 140 carries for a 5.06 yard average).


1946 AAFC season, League leaders, awards, and achievements
Lou Groza led in scoring with 84 points and also set a professional football record with 13 field goals and 45 extra points.


1946 AAFC season, League leaders, awards, and achievements
Tommy Colella of Cleveland led the league with 10 interceptions for 110 yards.


1946 AAFC season, 1946 All-AAFC teams
The United Press (UP) selected an All-AAFC team in December 1946. The AAFC also announced an official All-AAFC team in January based on polling of reporters and broadcasters in member cities. The Associated Press (AP) selected an All-Pro team that included selections from both the NFL and the AAFC.


1946 AAFC season, 1946 All-AAFC teams
Three players received first-team honors on all three teams: tackle Bruiser Kinard and halfbacks Glenn Dobbs and Spec Sanders. A complete list of AAFC players receiving honors is as follows:


1946 Aberdare by-election
The 1946 Aberdare by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 5 December 1946 for the British House of Commons constituency of Aberdare in Wales. The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) George Hall had been created Viscount Hall on 28 October 1946. Hall had held the seat since the 1922 general election. The Labour candidate, David Thomas, held the seat for the party. He remained the constituency's MP until his death in 1954, when a further by-election was held.


1946 Aberdare by-election
The 1946 by-election was the best performance at the time by Plaid Cymru in the industrial valleys of South Wales.


1946 Aberdeen South by-election
The Aberdeen South by-election of 1946 was held on 26 November 1946. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir Douglas Thomson. It was won by the Conservative candidate Priscilla Buchan.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike
The African Mine Workers' Strike was a labour dispute involving mine workers of Witwatersrand in South Africa. It started on 12 August, 1946 and lasted approximately a week. The strike was attacked by police and over the week, at least 1,248 workers were wounded and at least 9 killed.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, African Mine Workers' Union
In 1941 a miners' conference was called by the Transvaal Provincial Committee of the African National Congress. The conference was supported by Paramount Chief of Zululand and trade unions.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, African Mine Workers' Union
It was here that the African Mine Workers' Union came into being and elected a committee under the presidency of J. B. Marks, who also became President of the Transvaal African National Congress.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, African Mine Workers' Union
At first the union was not recognised by the Chamber of Mines, but after sustained pressure for better wages and conditions, the prime minister, Field Marshal Jan Smuts, announced some piecemeal increases improvements in conditions while at the same time issuing War Measure No. 1425—banning gatherings of more than twenty people on mining property without permission.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, African Mine Workers' Union
Despite union officials being arrested in 1944 at a meeting in Witwatersrand and in Springs, a conference was held in May 1946 which decided to approach the government with demands for a ten shillings a day wage and other improvements—or to take strike action.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, African Mine Workers' Union
On August 12, 1946, more than 60,000 workers in Witwatersrand refused to continue working for the existing wages. Within a week police were deployed and incorporated brutal tactics in an effort to break the strike. Officially 9 died and more than 1,248 workers were injured, and many regarded the strike as a failure. Although the initial demands were ignored and the workers returned to the mines after only a week, the strike was viewed as a crucial moment in South Africa's development.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, African Mine Workers' Union
Ultimately this initial protest later influenced political realignments, and has been associated with increased labour conscience and social change. By addressing the conditions necessary to maintain cheap migrant labour, this movement provided insight into the manner in which Apartheid serves as a vehicle for perpetuating pre-capitalist modes of production. Methods such as the 'compound system', which essentially restrained workers from having any contact with Union organizers, were direct results of the initial failed Union Strike of 1946.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, African Mine Workers' Union
In August 1946 an open air conference was held in Newtown Market Square as no hall where Africans could hold meetings was big enough to accommodate those present and the decision to strike was taken.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, Bloody Tuesday
The police attacked the workers with batons, bayonets, and gunfire outside the mines and in the mines when forced to work.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, Bloody Tuesday
Police brutality reached a bloody climax on a peaceful march from the East Rand to Johannesburg on Tuesday, 13 August. Police opened fire on the procession and a number of workers were killed.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, Bloody Tuesday
This led to the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions (CONETU) calling a general strike in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 14 August. CONETU called a meeting at Newtown Market Square the next day which was banned by the Riotous Assemblies Act. This meeting was also attacked by police with guns and bayonets.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, Bloody Tuesday
During the week workers and leaders of the ANC, the Communist Party, the Indian and Coloured Congresses and the trade unions were arrested, tried, imprisoned, and deported.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, Bloody Tuesday
The 1946 African miners strike signified a shift in public conscience, and was widely considered the beginning of what would later become the anti-apartheid movement. This strike, " was led by the African Mine Workers Union, whose president, J.B. Marks, was also a leader in the South African Communist Party." (Workers World newspaper, Aug. 29, 1996. Monica Moorehead). Most workers averaged two shillings per shift, and were responsible for contributing a portion of their wages towards work clothes and bedding. Many were removed from their families, sometimes for years, while their children and spouses starved.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, Bloody Tuesday
The AMWU initially placed demands to create a legal minimum wage, cost-of-living allowance, and regular wage increases. The miners settled on a 10 shilling per day minimum wage, and improved working conditions as the basis of their demands. The Transvaal Chamber of Mines functioned as a closely knit cartel comprising five separate mining groups that essentially controlled the largest labour force in South Africa. Their influence over state revenue, and political seats in the government allowed them to function with relative impunity.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, Bloody Tuesday
With a general monopoly over South Africa's agricultural and industrial products, the Transvaal Chamber of Mines was in effect capable of controlling workers wages and suppressing efforts to unionize. This was largely achieved by keeping workers in policed compounds and brutally restricting their ability to communicate or be contacted by union organizers. In the wake of discontent following settlements that maintained the existing labour cost, Prime Minister Smuts issued War Measure NO. 1425 this measure which, " prohibiting gatherings of more than twenty persons on mining property without special permission," effectively ceased further organized trade union meetings.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, Bloody Tuesday
(African National Congress, Sept. 12,1976, Monty Naicker). Following the suppression of the 1946 strike, union groups like The Communist Party of South Africa experienced brutal treatment at the hands of the existing government. Many of the parties leaders were indicted on charges of sedition and treason. "This was followed by a systematic series of measures to destroy the CPSA, culminating in the suppression of Communism Act in 1950." (Communist University, COSATU, 1946 mineworkers strike, press release, Aug. 11, 2006).


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, Bloody Tuesday
However, despite continual efforts through the media to define the strike as a failure this initial protest has had a lasting impact on South African politics. The formation and emergence of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) represents a direct lineage to these early union organizers. This organization, " arguably the heirs to the 1946 strike are currently engaged in a series of territorial disputes with the breakaway Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU)." (Global Research, Aug. 21, 2012. Chris Webb). Cheap Labour has historically provided the back-bone for South Africa's thriving mining industry.


1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, Bloody Tuesday
Much of this work-force has routinely been composed of poor workers abducted from surrounding regions. " Research shows that by 1929, more than 115,000 Mozambicans had been forcibly recruited to work in South African mines." (The Southern Times, Felix Njini, Sept. 17, 2012). The increased foreign demand for platinum has only served to perpetuate this system of abuse and oppression. While the number of workers extracted from the surrounding areas has declined, local peasants are still routinely pressured into labour once they reach the working age. While many of the injustices  imposed by South Africa's mining industry persist, the 1946 miners strike remains a prevalent reminder of the plight of  African workers and their families.


1946 Akron Zippers football team
The 1946 Akron Zippers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Akron as an independent during the 1946 college football season. In its first season under head coach Paul Baldacci, the team compiled a 5–4 record and was outscored by a total of 134 to 122. The team played its home games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio.


1946 Akron Zippers football team
The Akron football team had been suspended after the 1942 season due to World War II. The 1946 season marked the school's return to intercollegiate football.


1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1946 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 52nd overall and 13th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Frank Thomas, in his 15th year, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Legion Field in Birmingham and at the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery. They finished with a record of seven wins and four losses (7–4 overall, 4–3 in the SEC).


1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
After the Crimson Tide opened the season with four consecutive victories over Furman, Tulane, South Carolina and Southwestern Louisiana, Alabama's 14-game winning streak was snapped when they lost to Tennessee 12–0. One week later, the Crimson Tide faced off against Kentucky and their young new coach, Bear Bryant, and won by a score of 21–7, before they lost consecutive games to Georgia and LSU. Alabama then closed the season with a victory over Vanderbilt, a loss to Boston College in their first game ever played in New England, and an upset victory over Mississippi State on homecoming in the season finale.


1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
Over the course of the season, Frank Thomas was riddled with health issues that ultimately led to his resignation as head coach. In January 1947, Harold Drew was named as the 17th head coach of the Crimson Tide.


1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Furman
To open the 1946 season, the Crimson Tide played the Furman Purple Hurricane, who fielded their first team since the 1942 season, on a Friday night at Legion Field. Against the Purple Hurricane, Alabama won 26–7 before a crowd of 25,000 in Birmingham. In the first quarter, Alabama took a 6–0 lead after Norwood Hodges intercepted a Skeeter Coyle pass and returned it 27-yards for a touchdown. On the kickoff that ensued, Charlie Truluck returned it 95-yards to give Furman a 7–6 lead. The Crimson Tide responded with a pair of second-quarter touchdowns to take a 19–7 halftime lead. The first came on a 29-yard Harry Gilmer pass to Ted Cook and the second on a six-yard Johnny August run. Alabama then scored their final points of the game in the third quarter on a 15-yard Gilmer run. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Furman to 2–0.


1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tulane
To open conference play, Alabama traveled to New Orleans and defeated the Tulane Green Wave 7–6 in what was described as a "torrential downpour" throughout the game. Alabama scored their only points on a two-yard Hal Self touchdown run in the first quarter, and Tulane scored on a 24-yard Jim Keeton pass to John Sims in the second quarter. At the time, the announced crowd of 64,317 in attendance for the game was the largest for a regular season game in the Southern United States. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Tulane to 15–4–1.


1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
Against the South Carolina Gamecocks, Alabama won their third game of the season with this 14–6 at Carolina Stadium. The Gamecocks took a 6–0 first quarter lead after Bo Hagan threw a 42-yard touchdown pass to Earl Dunham. Alabama responded with a one-yard Hal Smith touchdown run for a 7–6 halftime lead. After a scoreless third, the Crimson Tide closed the game with a one-yard Fred Grant touchdown run for the 14–6 win. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against South Carolina to 4–0.


1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Southwestern Louisiana
After they opened the season with three consecutive victories, Alabama was recognized with the No. 6 ranking in the first AP Poll for the 1946 season in the week that led to their game against the Southwestern Louisiana Institute. Against the Bulldogs, that were led by former Tide great Johnny Cain, Alabama won their fourth game of the season with their 54–0 shutout at Denny Stadium. Alabama took a 6–0 first-quarter lead after Lowell Tew scored on a 28-yard touchdown run. They extended their lead 20–0 at halftime after Johnny August threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Bob Hood and Lionel W. Noonan scored on a three-yard run.


1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Southwestern Louisiana
In the third quarter, Tew scored his second touchdown on a seven-yard run and Fred Grant scored on a three-yard run for a 34–0 lead. The Crimson Tide then concluded the afternoon with a trio of touchdowns in the fourth quarter. The touchdowns were scored on a Clem Welsh run, a 46-yard Norman Mosley punt return and an 87-yard D. Joe Gambrell reception from Theo Fakier for the 54–0 victory. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Bulldogs to 3–0.


1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee
Although they defeated Southwestern Louisiana in their previous game, Alabama dropped to the No. 7 position in the second AP Poll of the season. Against Tennessee, the Crimson Tide were shutout Volunteers 12–0 at Shields–Watkins Field. The Tennessee points were scored on short Bob Lund touchdown runs in the second and third quarters. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Tennessee to 16–9–3.


1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Kentucky
After their loss against Tennessee, Alabama dropped four spots to the No. 11 ranking prior to their game against Kentucky. In Montgomery, the Crimson Tide defeated the Wildcats 21–7 at the Cramton Bowl. After a scoreless first quarter, Alabama took a 14–0 halftime lead after touchdowns were scored on a one-yard Harry Gilmer run and on a 37-yard Gilmer pass to Hugh Morrow in the second quarter. Kentucky responded in the third with their only points when Bill Chambers intercepted a Gilmer pass and returned it 65-yards for a touchdown. The Crimson Tide then made the final score 21–7 in the fourth on an eight-yard Gilmer pass to Ted Cook. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Kentucky 23–1–1.