Clemson at Virginia
Saturday, October 26, 1963 Share
Clemson beat Virginia 35–0. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Clemson led the series 7–0.
FinalHigh 77°F, low 45°FAttendance 18,000
In the newspapers

The Nome nugget, October 28, 1963, page 7 (results column)
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another fine job for Purdue. And the Boilermakers blanked Iowa 14 to 0. Minnesota edged Michigan 6 to } and held on to the little brown jug for the fourth straight year. Seventh-ranked Oklah om trampled Kansas State 34 to 9 for it’s fourth victory of the year. A 50-yard run with an inter- cepted pass gave Missouri the only touchdown of the game and a ‘ 70 0 victory over Iowa State. Another brilliant running job by Gale Savers led Kansas to a 41 to 2 rout over Oklahoma State. In the Southeastern Conference Georgia edged Kentucky IF to IA. A pair of touchdown plunges by Don Schwab led Louisiana State to a IA to 0 victory over Florida The Atlantic Coast Conference had major upset with North Caro- lima State beating Duke 21 to ‘. Five different Clemson backs had a chance to score, on short line plunges as the Tigers whipped Virginia 35 to 0. In an upset in the Southwest Conference, it was Texas Tech 13, Southern Methodist 6. In the East, the longest winning streak in major college football came to an end when Harvard up- set Dartmouth IT to 13. Dartmouth had won Is straight games. Underdog Stanford defeated Notre Dame, “A to IA, before 55 ,OOO fans, plus a nationwide television audience. The University of Washington came from behind in a hard hitting g game with independent Oregon to capture a 26 to 19 football victory before a sell-out crowd at Port land.
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)
Virginia 51% to win. Clemson won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Clemson–Virginia gameClemson leads 41–8–1 in 50 meetings, counting the 43 since this game.
| 2024 | Clemson 48, Virginia 31 | |
| 2020 | Clemson 41, Virginia 23 | |
| 2019 | Clemson 62, Virginia 17 | ACC Championship Game |
| 2013 | Clemson 59, Virginia 10 | |
| 2009 | Clemson 34, Virginia 21 | |
| 2008 | Clemson 13, Virginia 3 |
Around this game
Clemson
- Next gamevs. Wake ForestNov. 2, 1963
- SeasonClemson in 1963
- ProgramClemson history and records
Virginia
- Next gameat NC StateNov. 2, 1963
- SeasonVirginia in 1963
- ProgramVirginia history and records

