1953 South Carolina Gamecocks football team

1953 South Carolina Gamecocks football
ConferenceAtlantic Coast Conference
Record7–3 (2–3 ACC)
Head coach
CaptainGene Wilson
Home stadiumCarolina Stadium
Seasons
← 1952
1954 →
1953 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
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
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll[1]

The 1953 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 1953 college football season. Led by 13th-year head coach Rex Enright, the Gamecocks compiled an overall record of 7–3 with a mark of 2–3 in conference play, placing in a three-way tie for third in the ACC. The team played home games at Carolina Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina.

1953 was the ACC's inaugural year of competition. South Carolina and six other schools from the Southern Conference (SoCon) broke off to form the new conference in 1953.

Also this year, South Carolina entered the AP Poll for the first time in school history, though it would be another five years before it would finish a season ranked in that poll.[2]

  1. ^ "1953 Atlantic Coast Conference Year Summary". sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
  2. ^ "South Carolina Gamecocks Poll History". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved October 29, 2023.