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The 1945 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In its first season under head coach Charlie Caldwell, the team compiled a 2–3–2 record and was outscored by a total of 112 to 69.[1][2] Princeton played its 1945 home games at Palmer Stadium in Princeton, New Jersey.

ConferenceIndependent
Record2–3–2
Headcoach
HomestadiumPalmer Stadium
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1945 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–3–2
Head coach
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
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1945 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW 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
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Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6LafayetteT 7–7 4,000 [3]
October 13at CornellW 14–6 14,000 [4]
October 27Rutgers
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 14–6 12,000 [5]
November 3at No. 7 PennL 0–28 52,000 [6]
November 10Dartmouth
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
T 13–13 15,000 [7]
November 17Columbia
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
L 7–3218,000[8]
November 24Yale
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
L 14–20 40,000 [9]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
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