The 1953 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the

1953 college football season The 1953 college football season finished with the Maryland Terrapins capturing the AP, INS, and UPI national championship after Notre Dame held the top spot for the first nine weeks. The No. 4 Oklahoma Sooners defeated Maryland in the Orange ...

. In its seventh season under head coach

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, the team compiled a 1–8 record. Paul Ganz, Bill Gray and Jim Egloff were the team captains. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

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