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The 1953 Defiance Yellow Jackets football team was an
American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
team that represented
Defiance College Defiance College is a private college located in Defiance, Ohio and affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The campus includes eighteen buildings and access to the Thoreau Wildlife Sanctuary. History The college began as Defiance Female ...
as a member of the Mid-Ohio League (MOL) 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 their third year under head coach Vic Rowen, the Yellow Jackets compiled an 8–0 record (4–0 against conference opponents), won the MOL championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 163 to 59. Defiance was the only unbeaten and untied football team in Ohio during the 1953 season. It was the first
perfect season A perfect season is a sports season, including any requisite playoff portion, in which a team remains and finishes undefeated and untied. The feat is extremely rare at the professional level of any team sport, and has occurred more commonly at the ...
in Defiance football history. Additional perfect seasons followed in
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and 1969.


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Defiance Yellow Jackets football Defiance College is a private college located in Defiance, Ohio and affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The campus includes eighteen buildings and access to the Thoreau Wildlife Sanctuary. History The college began as Defiance Female ...