Alabama vs. Duke
Monday, January 1, 1945, Sugar Bowl Share
No. 11 Duke beat No. 16 Alabama 29–26. It was their first meeting; after it, Duke led the series 1–0 as played.
FinalAttendance 66,822Referee: J.D. Thomason (SEC; split crew: SEC, Southern)The game on Wikipedia
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, January 2, 1945, page 3
Read the text
NEW YEAR GAMES The following are final score of football games played dl New Years Day: Rose Bowl Southern California, 29; Tennes- see, 0. Shrine Game West, 13; East, T. Sugar Bowl Duke, 29; Alabama, 26. Cotton Bowl Oklahoma Aggies, 34; Texas Christian, O. Sun Bowl Texas Southwestern University, 35; National University of Mexico, 0. Orange Bowl Tulsa, 26 Georgia Tech, 12. Spaghetti Bowl Fifth Army, 20, Twelfth Air Force, 0.
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
On the newsreel
- THE SUGAR BOWL72,000 fans see Duke and Alabama put on the top bowl game of the day.
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Duke 50% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Alabama–Duke gameOfficially, Alabama leads 3–1; as played, 4–1 in five meetings, counting the four since this game.
| 2019 | Alabama 42, Duke 3 | |
| 2010 | Alabama 62, Duke 13 | |
| 2006 | Alabama 30, Duke 14 | |
| 1972 | Alabama 35, Duke 12 | |
| 1944 | Duke 29, Alabama 26 | Sugar Bowl |
Around this game
Alabama
- Next gameat Keesler FieldSept. 29, 1945
- SeasonAlabama in 1944
- ProgramAlabama history and records
Duke
- Next gamevs. South CarolinaSept. 22, 1945
- SeasonDuke in 1944
- ProgramDuke history and records