Wake Forest at East Carolina

Saturday, September 21, 1963

East Carolina beat Wake Forest 20–⁠10. It was their first meeting; after it, East Carolina led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayWake Forest1–⁠9 in 1963
10
HomeEast Carolina2–⁠1 in 1963
20

FinalHigh 89°F, low 55°FAttendance 17,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: East Carolina Upsets Deacs

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., September 22, 1963, page 34

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    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.

Wake Forest leads 6–⁠2 in eight meetings, counting the seven since this game.

Recent meetings
2005Wake Forest 44, East Carolina 34
2004Wake Forest 31, East Carolina 17
2003Wake Forest 34, East Carolina 16
2002Wake Forest 27, East Carolina 22
2001Wake Forest 21, East Carolina 19
1997East Carolina 25, Wake Forest 24

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