1945 Dartmouth Indians football team

The 1945 Dartmouth Indians football team represented Dartmouth College during the 1945 college football season.

1945 Dartmouth Indians football
Conference	Independent
Record	1–6–1
Head coach	Tuss McLaughry (3rd season)
Home stadium	Memorial Field

1945 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 1 Army			–					9	–	0	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					4	–	0	–	1
No. 20 Columbia			–					8	–	1	–	0
Temple			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 16 Holy Cross			–					8	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					4	–	1	–	0
No. 8 Penn			–					6	–	2	–	0
Yale			–					6	–	3	–	0
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	1	–	1
Harvard			–					5	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					4	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					3	–	4	–	0
Brown			–					3	–	4	–	1
Colgate			–					3	–	4	–	1
Princeton			–					2	–	3	–	2
NYU			–					3	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	7	–	0
Bucknell			–					2	–	5	–	0
Drexel			–					2	–	5	–	0
Dartmouth			–					1	–	6	–	1
Syracuse			–					1	–	6	–	0
Boston University			–					0	–	5	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	8	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	Holy Cross	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 6–13	8,000
October 6	Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–12	45,000
October 13	No. 3 Notre Dame	Notre Dame Stadium South Bend, IN	L 0–34	45,000
October 27	Syracuse	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 8–0	10,000
November 3	Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–6	45,000
November 10	Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	T 13–13	15,000
November 17	Cornell	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 13–20	12,000
November 24	Columbia	Baker Field New York, NY	L 0–21	30,000
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game