1953 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 1953 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1953 college football season. The Gamecocks were led by 13th-year head coach Rex Enright and played their home games at Carolina Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, in the conference's inaugural year. South Carolina and six other schools from the Southern Conference broke off to form the new conference in 1953. The Gamecocks finished the season 7–3 overall.
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| Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
| 1953 record | 7–3 (2–3 ACC) |
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| Home stadium | Carolina Stadium (Capacity: 34,000) |
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 19 | No. 10 Duke | L 7–20 | ||||
| September 28[2] | The Citadel* |
| W 25–0 | |||
| October 3 | at Virginia* | W 19–0 | ||||
| October 10 | Furman* |
| W 27–13 | |||
| October 22 | Clemson |
| W 14–7 | 35,000 | [3] | |
| October 31 | at No. 2 Maryland | L 6–24 | ||||
| November 7 | North Carolina |
| W 18–0 | |||
| November 14 | at No. 8 West Virginia* | W 20–14 | ||||
| November 21 | Wofford* | No. 18 |
| W 49–0 | ||
| November 26 | vs. Wake Forest | No. 15 | L 13–19 | |||
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References
- "1953 Atlantic Coast Conference Year Summary". sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
- Game delayed from September 26th, 1953: https://www.newspapers.com/image/190100660/
- Jim Anderson (October 23, 1953). "Carolina Captures Thriller From Clemson, 14-7". The Greenville News. pp. 1, 17 – via Newspapers.com.
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