1970 Duke Blue Devils football team

1970 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

The 1970 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.^[2]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 12	vs. Florida*	Gator Bowl Stadium Jacksonville, FL	L 19–21	53,841
September 19	Maryland	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	W 13–12	12,877
September 26	Virginia	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	W 17–7	24,478
October 3	at No. 1 Ohio State	Ohio Stadium Columbus, OH	L 10–34	86,123
October 10	at No. 11 West Virginia*	Mountaineer Field Morgantown, WV	W 21–13	35,000
October 17	at NC State	Carter Stadium Raleigh, NC	W 22–6	26,400
October 24	at Clemson	Memorial Stadium Clemson, SC	W 21–10	30,000
October 31	Georgia Tech*	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	L 16–24	32,650
November 7	Wake Forest	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	L 14–28	28,600
November 14	at South Carolina	Carolina Stadium Columbia, SC	W 42–38	42,454
November 21	at North Carolina	Kenan Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (Victory Bell)	L 34–59	48,600
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

1970 Duke Blue Devils football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
WR	`41`	Wes Chesson	Sr
QB	`10`	Leo Hart	Sr
RB	`46`	Steve Jones	So
T	`64`	Ed Newman	So

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
DB	`13`	Ernie Jackson	Jr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

^ "1970 Atlantic Coast Conference Year Summary". sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
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v t Duke Blue Devils football
Venues	Hanes Field (c. 1913–1928) Wallace Wade Stadium (1929–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games North Carolina: (Victory Bell)
Culture & lore	History "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 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

1970 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Wake Forest $	5	–	1	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
North Carolina	5	–	2	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
Duke	5	–	2	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
South Carolina	3	–	2	–	1	4	–	6	–	1
NC State	2	–	3	–	1	3	–	7	–	1
Clemson	2	–	4	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Maryland	2	–	4	–	0	2	–	9	–	0
Virginia	0	–	6	–	0	5	–	6	–	0

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