Wake Forest at East Carolina
Saturday, September 21, 1963 Share
East Carolina beat Wake Forest 20–10. It was their first meeting; after it, East Carolina led the series 1–0.
FinalHigh 89°F, low 55°FAttendance 17,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., September 22, 1963, page 34
Read the text
East Carolina Upsets Deacs GREENVILLE, N. c., Sept. 81 CAP) East Carolina Col lege spotted Wake Forest three points and roared back to hand the Deacons a 20–10 football lacing tonight as Fullback Tom Michel scored three touch downs. An overflow crowd of $1,000 in new Ficklen Stadium saw East Cardinals powerful sin Chewing attack dominate the play. Michel, a 2l2-pound jun ior from Arlington, Va, went over for touchdown from the two in the second period, ado ed another score shortly before the half from the two and closed it out by banging over from the six in the third period. To cap off his nights work, Michel raced So yards off tackle in the third period to Wake Forests 10, but the DeaconS braced and held. E Ece FOREST 1....: 4 8 SO Wake Forest-Fo. Piccolo (321. ECC--Michel 2 run kick failedl colo kick. EcC-Michel .. run Cpass failed. ECC-Michel 6. run anderson, pass from Beauvinder). e Attendance-17,0 900.
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Wake Forest 55% to win. East Carolina won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Wake Forest–East Carolina gameWake Forest leads 6–2 in eight meetings, counting the seven since this game.
Around this game
Wake Forest
- Next gamevs. Virginia TechSept. 28, 1963
- SeasonWake Forest in 1963
- ProgramWake Forest history and records
East Carolina
- Next gameat The CitadelNov. 2, 1963
- SeasonEast Carolina in 1963
- ProgramEast Carolina history and records

