| 1945Wiley Wildcats football | |
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Black college national champion SWAC champion | |
Orange Blossom Classic, W 32–6 vs.Florida A&M | |
| Conference | Southwestern Athletic Conference |
| Record | 10–0 (6–0 SWAC) |
| Head coach |
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Seasons ← 1944 1946 → | |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wiley $ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas College | 3 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Langston | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Samuel Huston | 1 | – | 3 | – | 2 | ? | – | ? | – | ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prairie View | 1 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arkansas AM&N | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The1945 Wiley Wildcats football team was anAmerican football team that representedWiley College in theSouthwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the1945 college football season. In their 23rd season under head coachFred T. Long, the Wildcats compiled a 10–0 record (6–0 against SWAC opponents), defeatedFlorida A&M in theOrange Blossom Classic, won the SWAC championship, shut out seven of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 356 to 19. The Wiley team was also recognized as the 1945black college national champion.
Assistant coachHarry Long, the brother of head coach Fred T. Long, suffered a heart attack in the first quarter of the Orange Blossom Classic. He died in an ambulance en route to a hospital. The victory sealed the Wildcats' national championship, but, after the game, the team sprawled out on the bench and the ground and wept over the Long's death.[1]
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 29 | Philander Smith* |
| W 53–0 | ||||
| October 6 | atArkansas AM&N | Pine Bluff, AR | W 31–0 | [2] | |||
| October 15 | Prairie View | W 35–7 | |||||
| October 20 | Tillotson* |
| W 62–0 | ||||
| October 29 | vs.Randolph Field* | Shreveport, LA | W 26–0 | ||||
| November 10 | Langston |
| W 20–0 | 3,000 | |||
| November 17 | Southern | W 33–0 | 6,000 | ||||
| November 24 | Samuel Huston |
| W 56–0 | ||||
| December 1 | Texas College |
| W 8–6 | ||||
| December 8 | vs.Florida A&M* | W 32–6 | 8,000 | [1] | |||
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