1953 Duke Blue Devils football team

1953 ACC football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 1 Maryland +	3	–	0	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
No. 18 Duke +	4	–	0	–	0	7	–	2	–	1
South Carolina	2	–	3	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
North Carolina	2	–	3	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Wake Forest	2	–	3	–	0	3	–	6	–	1
Clemson	1	–	2	–	0	3	–	5	–	1
NC State	0	–	3	–	0	1	–	9	–	0

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll^[1]

The 1953 Duke Blue Devils football team represented the Duke Blue Devils of Duke University during the 1953 college football season. ^[2]

Duke won a share of the 1953 ACC Championship, and finished the season ranked 18th in the final AP poll.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Location	Result
09/19/1953	at South Carolina	No. 10	Columbia, SC	W 20-7
9/26/1953	Wake Forest	No. 10	Durham, NC	W 19-0
10/03/1953	at Tennessee	No. 12	Knoxville, TN	W 21-7
10/10/1953	Purdue	No. 8	Durham, NC	W 20-14
10/17/1953	at Army	No. 7	New York, NY	L 13-14
10/24/1953	NC State	No. 16	Durham, NC	W 31-0
10/31/1953	vs. Virginia	No. 13	Norfolk, VA	W 48-6
11/07/1953	at Navy	No. 10	Baltimore, MD	T 0-0
11/21/1953	at No. 12 Georgia Tech	No. 15	Atlanta, GA	L 10-13
11/28/1953	North Carolina		Durham, NC	W 35-20

↑ "1953 Atlantic Coast Conference Year Summary". sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
↑ "1953 Duke Blue Devils". College Football at Sports-Reference.com.

Duke Blue Devils football
Venues	Wallace Wade Stadium (1929–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games North Carolina (Victory Bell)
Culture & lore	Blue Devil "Fight! Blue Devils, Fight!" Blue and White (Duke fight song) Marching band
People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895–1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

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