1954 Maryland Terrapins football team

1954 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

1954 Maryland Terrapins football
1954 Maryland Terrapins football
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 11
AP	No. 8
1954 record	7–2–1 (4–0–1 ACC)
Head coach	Jim Tatum (8th season);
Offensive scheme	Split-T
Home stadium	Byrd Stadium
	Seasons ← 1953 1955 →

The 1954 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland in the 1954 college football season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).^[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	Source
September 18	at Kentucky*	No. 3	McLean Stadium Lexington, KY	W 20–0	36,000
October 1	at No. 4 UCLA*	No. 6	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	L 7–12	73,376
October 9	at Wake Forest	No. 13	Bowman Gray Stadium Wake Forest, NC	T 13–13	12,000
October 16	North Carolina		Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	W 33–0	26,000
October 22	at No. 16 Miami (FL)*		Burdine Stadium Miami, FL	L 7–9	52,506
October 30	at South Carolina		Carolina Stadium Columbia, SC	W 20–0	24,000
November 6	NC State		Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	W 42–14
November 13	Clemson	No. 17	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	W 16–0	21,000
November 20	George Washington*	No. 13	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	W 48–6	23,000	^[4]
November 25	Missouri*	No. 10	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	W 74–13	20,000
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to the game

^ "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.
^ "Maryland routs George Washington eleven, 48 to 6". The Baltimore Sun. November 21, 1954. Retrieved February 10, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

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1954 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 14 Duke $	4	–	0	–	0	8	–	2	–	1
No. 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

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll^[1]