1954 Maryland Terrapins football team
Main article: Maryland Terrapins football under Jim Tatum (1947–1955)
| 1954 Maryland Terrapins football | |
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| Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | #11 |
| AP | #8 |
| 1954 record | 7–2–1 (4–0–1 ACC) |
| Head coach | Jim Tatum |
| Offensive scheme | Split-T |
| Home stadium | Byrd Stadium |
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| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #14 Duke $ | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #8 Maryland | 4 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Carolina | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Clemson | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wake Forest | 1 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Virginia | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NC State | 0 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1954 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college football in its second season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. .[2] Maryland, with its rout against Missouri, 74–13, set an ACC record-high for scoring that stood for 27 years.[3]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | Result | Attendance | ||||
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| 18 September 1954 | at Kentucky* | #3 | McLean Stadium • Lexington, KY | W 20–0 | 36,000 | ||||
| 1 October 1954 | at #4 UCLA* | #6 | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA | L 7–12 | 73,376 | ||||
| 9 October 1954 | at Wake Forest | #13 | Wake Forest, NC | T 13–13 | 12,000 | ||||
| 16 October 1954 | North Carolina | Byrd Stadium • College Park, MD | W 33–0 | 26,000 | |||||
| 22 October 1954 | at #16 Miami* | Orange Bowl • Miami, FL | L 7–9 | 52,506 | |||||
| 30 October 1954 | at South Carolina | Williams-Brice Stadium • Columbia, SC | W 20–0 | 24,000 | |||||
| 6 November 1954 | N.C. State |
Byrd Stadium • College Park, MD | W 42–14 | N/A | |||||
| 13 November 1954 | Clemson | #17 | Byrd Stadium • College Park, MD | W 16–0 | 21,000 | ||||
| 20 November 1954 | George Washington* | #13 | Byrd Stadium • College Park, MD | W 48–6 | N/A | ||||
| 25 November 1954 | Missouri* | #10 | Byrd Stadium • College Park, MD (Thanksgiving) | W 74–13 | 20,000 | ||||
| *Non-conference game. Homecoming. #Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to game. | |||||||||
References
- ↑ "1954 Atlantic Coast Conference Year Summary". sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
- ↑ Year-by-Year Results (PDF), 2008 Maryland Football Media Guide, University of Maryland, 2008. Accessed 2009-06-15. Archived 2009-06-17.
- ↑ K. Adam Powell and Woody Durham, Border Wars: The First Fifty Years of Atlantic Coast Conference Football, p. 167, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 0-8108-4839-2, 2004.
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