1953 Kansas State Wildcats football team
| 1953 Kansas State Wildcats football | |
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| Conference | Big Eight Conference |
| 1953 record | 6–3–1 (4–2 Big 7) |
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| Home stadium | Memorial Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 4 Oklahoma $ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Missouri | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas State | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Colorado | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nebraska | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa State | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1953 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1953 college football season. The team's head football coach was Bill Meek. The Wildcats played their home games in Memorial Stadium. 1953 saw the Wildcats finish with a record of 6–3–1, and a 4–2 record in Big Seven Conference play, tied for second in the conference. The Wildcats scored 198 points while giving up 116.[1]
Kansas State started the season with a 5–1 record, and made the program's first appearance in the top 20 of a national ranking system at #18 in the Coaches Poll on October 28. 1953 was also the first year that Kansas State played on national television, when its game on November 7 against rival Kansas was broadcast on NBC.
The team finished the season leading the NCAA in punt returns (23.8 yards per punt average).
Schedule[]
| Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
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| September 19 | Drake* | W 50–0 | ||||
| September 26 | at Colorado A&M* | L 13–14 | ||||
| October 3 | Nebraska |
| W 27–0 | 12,500 | ||
| October 10 | at Iowa State | W 20–12 | 8,037 | |||
| October 17 | Colorado |
| W 28–14 | 14,000 | ||
| October 24 | Wichita* |
| W 21–0 | |||
| October 31 | No. 7 Oklahoma | No. 18 |
| L 0–34 | 23,822 | |
| November 7 | at Kansas | NBC | W 7–0 | 25,000 | ||
| November 14 | at Missouri | L 6–16 | ||||
| November 21 | at Arizona* | T 26–26 | ||||
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References[]
- ^ "1953 Kansas State Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
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