Maryland at Clemson

Saturday, November 16, 1963

Clemson beat Maryland 21–⁠6. It was their 12th meeting; after it, Maryland led the series 7–⁠4–⁠1.

AwayMaryland3–⁠7 in 1963
6
HomeClemson5–⁠4–⁠1 in 1963
21

FinalHigh 55°F, low 21°FAttendance 30,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 17, 1963, page 96

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    CLEMSON, S. c.. Nov. 10 Coach Frank Howard of Glenn son will let Maryland’s Dairy Hill break all sorts of Terr pass-catching records, but as long as he doesn’t score he’ll give his Tiger pass defense a grade of A. Hill broke a Maryland recepton record with 10 catches for SO yards here today, but Glenn son broke Hills touchdown string. He had caught at least one touchdown pass in his last four games. II don’t care If he caught 25,” Howard chuckled after ward. They still didn’t score with their offense, and I’d say that was pretty good defense on our part” 1t was the Clemson pass detense, which had given up nine touchdowns already this season, that turned out to be the Tigers best weapon in their 21–⁠6 triumph. Rush Rarely Applied Howard said that he had decided not to put too much OF a rush on Quarterback Dick Sinner, because of the Terps’ fondness for screen and flat passes. The rush was applied only on rare occasions, but one such play turned out to be important in the triumph. Trailing, TO, with only 43 seconds left in the first half, Maryland had a fourth-andone situation on the Clemson

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)

Clemson 70% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Clemson leads 34–⁠26–⁠2 in 62 meetings, counting the 50 since this game.

Recent meetings
2013Clemson 40, Maryland 27
2012Clemson 45, Maryland 10
2011Clemson 56, Maryland 45
2010Clemson 31, Maryland 7
2009Maryland 24, Clemson 21
2008Maryland 20, Clemson 17

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