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The 1953 football team went 9-1 and won the Missouri Collegiate Athletic Union title after a runner-up finish the previous season and featured All-Conference First Team performers, Laurel Hobick, Coy Brown, Bob Nield, and Dan Golden. The Cardinals ranked sixth in the NAIA with 387 yards of total offense per game and boasted five players who rushed for at least 400 yards, including Al Ericson's 587. After snapping rival Missouri Valley's 55-game win streak in 1950, Jewell once again soured things for the Vikings as the Cardinals got a field goal from Ericson with six seconds remaining to hand Missouri Valley their first home loss in 14 years, 16-14, after which the Jewell students tore down the goal posts.
Team Members: Jesse Baird, Joe Barbour, Dwayne Bell, Ron Bell, Art Bergman, Tom Blum, Jim Bonuchi, Vic Bonuchi, Don Bowen, Rex Boyer, Bob Brown, Coy Brown, Dick Burns, Ray Burris, Larry Butler, Lew Carpenter, George Carter, Earl Cecil, C.W. Clevenger, Tom Cowling, Clarence Cox, John Crockett, Joe Crouthers, Gil Divelbiss, Harold Doubledee, Larry Dunphy, Gladden Dye, Hoyt Elrod, Al Ericson, Jim Fallman, Bob Fisher, Dick Foster, Don Foster, Don Fowler, Ben Gardner, Dan Golden, Dean Goodwin, Jerry Hampton, Don Haynes, Jim Hill, Paul Hirsch, Laurel Hobick, Jerry Hudder, Don Jackson, John Jackson, Allen Jenkins, Don Kincaid, Marvin Kinnett, George Lanham, Audrey Leigh, Jim Lewis, Jordan Lindsay, Charles Loomis, Frank Luzenske, B. Maher, Ron Mason, Jack Mathes, Ken McIntyre, Phil Meagher, Fred Merrell, Bill Miller, Frank Miller, Phil Miller, Bobby Nield, Edwin Parks, Ed Payne, John Philpot, Dave Plymire, Fred Pryor, Del Ranney, Floyd Reed, Ron Richmond, Charles Rowe, Ed Sayles, Ollie Schroeder, Gary Sivils, Carl Smarr, Fred Starnes, Bill Strawn, Dean Stuart, Bob Unverferth, Larry Voge, Bob Warren, Bob Younger, Earl Yuille
Staff: Norris Patterson (Head Coach), Jim Nelson (Assistant Coach), Jim Colin (Assistant Coach)
Managers: Lyle Boyles, Howard Cooper, John Fitzgerald, Tom Hendren, Marlin Moody, Bill Wilson, Larry Zahnd
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