The 1945 Air Transport Command Rockets football team represented the Air Transport Command (ATC) based in Nashville, Tennessee during the 1945 college football season.
[1] Captain Dick Emerson of Portland, Oregon served as the team's head coach at the outset of the season.
He was transferred by the Army in late September and succeeded by Captain Eddie Davison of Plainfield, New Jersey as acting coach.
Davison had played football at Saint Louis University and was line coach for the Rockets.
[2] The ATC Rockets were ranked 18th among the nation's college and service teams in the final Litkenhous Ratings.