The 1945 Maryland Terrapins football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maryland as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1945 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Bear Bryant, the team compiled a 6–2–1 record (2–2 in conference), tied for fifth place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 219 to 105.[1][2]
Bryant, then 31 years old, was hired as Maryland's head coach in early September, approximately three weeks before the season began. Bryant had served in the Navy for the prior three years. He had been an assistant coach of the 1944 North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football team and was scheduled to be the team's head coach in 1945. However, the Navy announced in late August that the Navy's Pre-Flight schools would not field football teams in 1945.[3] Bryant brought 20 number of players from the disbanded North Carolina Pre-Flight with him to Maryland.[4]
No Maryland player were named to the 1945 All-Southern Conference football team selected by coaches and sports writers for the Associated Press.[5]
In January 1946, after only four months at Maryland, Bryant resigned his position to become head coach at Kentucky.[6] According to one report, Bryant did not get along with university president Curley Byrd. In one incident, Byrd reinstated a player who Bryant had suspended for a violation of team rules.[7]
^"1945 Maryland Terrapins Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
^"Maryland Football Record Book" (PDF). University of Maryland. 2018. p. 8. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
^"Bryant, Ex-'Bama Star, New Terp Grid Coach". The Baltimore Sun. September 5, 1945. p. 34 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Navy Gridmen Join Maryland: Twenty Men From N.C. Pre-Flight Follow Coach Bryant". The Baltimore Sun. September 20, 1945. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Southern Conference All-Star Team Named". The Baltimore Sun. December 8, 1945. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
^Randall Cassell (January 15, 1946). "Aides To Follow Bryant To Kentucky, Liners Must Rebuild Coaching Corps". The Evening Sun (Baltimore). p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
^Phillips, B. J. (September 29, 1980). "Football's Supercoach". Time. Archived from the original on July 4, 2011. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
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