1953 Tennessee A&I Tigers football | |
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Black football national champion MAA co-champion | |
Conference | Midwest Athletic Association |
Record | 8–0–1 (2–0–1 MAA) |
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Home stadium | University Stadium |
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No. 4 Lincoln (MO) + | 4 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 0 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 3 Tennessee A&I + | 2 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 0 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 12 Grambling | 2 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 10 Texas Southern | 2 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kentucky State | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Central State (OH) | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jackson | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1953 Tennessee A&I Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State College as a member of the Midwest Athletic Association (MAA) during the 1953 college football season. In their third season under head coach Henry Kean, the Tigers compiled an 8–0–1 record, won the MAA championship, and outscored all opponents by a total of 225 to 60. [2]
The team was selected based on the Dickinson System as the 1953 black college national champion with a Dickinson rating of 25.83, placing ahead of Prairie View (25.00), Florida A&M (24.50), and Lincoln (MO) (24.25). [3]
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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September 18 | vs. Lincoln (MO) | Memphis, TN (Bluff City Classic) | T 19–19 | > 5,000 | [4] | ||
September 25 | Virginia State* | Nashville, TN | W 25–7 | [5] | |||
October 3 | at Langston* | Langston, OK | W 8–0 | [6] | |||
October 9 | Allen* |
| W 44–0 | [7] | |||
October 17 | at West Virginia State* | Charleston, WV | W 13–8 | [8] | |||
October 24 | at Central State (OH) | Wilberforce, OH | W 31–6 | [9] | |||
October 31 | at North Carolina College* | Durham, NC | W 19–0 | 8,000 | [10] | ||
November 14 | Morris Brown* |
| W 34–7 | [11] | |||
November 26 | Kentucky State | Nashville, TN | W 32–13 | [12] | |||
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