1963 Hofstra Flying Dutchmen football team

1963 Hofstra Flying Dutchmen football
ConferenceMiddle Atlantic Conference
DivisionNorthern College Division
Record3–6 (0–0 MAC)
Head coach
Captains
  • Ray DiScala
  • Len Garille
Home stadiumHofstra Stadium
Seasons
← 1962
1964 →
1963 Middle Atlantic Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
University Division
No. 2 Delaware x 4 0 0 8 0 0
Bucknell 3 1 0 6 3 0
Gettysburg 2 2 0 5 4 0
Temple 1 2 0 5 3 1
Lehigh 1 3 0 1 8 0
Lafayette 1 4 0 1 8 0
Northern College Division
Upsala x 4 1 0 6 2 0
Wagner 4 1 0 6 3 0
Albright 2 3 0 3 5 0
Moravian 2 4 0 2 4 0
Wilkes 2 5 0 3 5 0
Lycoming 1 5 0 1 7 0
Juniata * 3 1 0 5 3 0
Susquehanna * 2 1 0 8 1 0
Hofstra * 0 0 0 3 6 0
Southern College Division
Western Maryland x 4 0 0 6 1 1
Muhlenberg 4 1 0 5 3 0
Dickinson 5 2 0 5 2 0
Swarthmore 4 2 0 4 3 0
Drexel 3 2 0 5 3 0
Lebanon Valley 4 3 0 4 3 0
Pennsylvania Military 3 5 0 3 6 0
Ursinus 2 4 1 2 4 1
Haverford 2 4 0 2 5 0
Franklin & Marshall 1 4 0 1 6 0
Johns Hopkins 0 4 1 0 6 1
West Chester * 0 0 0 7 1 0
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
  • * – Ineligible for championship due to insufficient conference games
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1963 Hofstra Flying Dutchmen football team was an American football team that represented Hofstra University during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season. Hofstra was nominally a member of the |Northern College Division of the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC), but played no games within the conference.

In their 14th year under head coach Howard "Howdy" Myers Jr., the Flying Dutchmen compiled a 3–6 record, and were outscored 234 to 219. Ray DiScala and Len Garille were the team captains.[1]

This was Hofstra's last year in the MAC College–Northern Division. Just before the season began, the MAC's executive committee approved Hofstra's transfer to the more competitive University Division, effective in September 1964.[2] In six years of MAC football play, Hofstra had never played enough College Division teams to qualify for the division championship, instead playing mostly local opponents in the New York metropolitan area and New England, as well as several members of the MAC University Division. The 1963 schedule featured no MAC College Division opponents and only one MAC University Division opponent, Temple.

With their first home game of 1963, the Flying Dutchmen opened their new home field, Hofstra Stadium in Hempstead on Long Island, New York.[3]

  1. ^ "All-Time Results". 2009 Hofstra University Football Media Guide. Hempstead, N.Y.: Hofstra University. p. 141. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  2. ^ "Hofstra Moves Up in Conference". The Scranton Tribune. Scranton, Pa. September 11, 1963. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Stadium was invoked but never defined (see the help page).