1953 Brown Bears football team

1953 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5–1
Head coach
CaptainG.E. Haverty
Home stadiumBrown Stadium
1953 Ivy League football standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Cornell 3 0 24 3 2
Harvard 3 2 06 2 0
Yale 3 2 15 2 2
Princeton 3 3 05 4 0
Columbia 2 3 04 5 0
Dartmouth 2 3 02 7 0
Brown 0 3 03 5 1
Penn 0 0 13 5 1
  • The Ivy League in 1953 completed on a league basis in baseball, basketball, hockey, tennis and swimming. In football, there was an agreement among the schools to establish conditions to assure sportsmanship and amateurism. Moreover, newspapers regularly printed football standings for the Ivy League schools.

The 1953 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University as an independent during the 1953 college football season. In their third season under head coach Alva Kelley, the Bears compiled a 3–5–1 record, but outscored their opponents 134 to 127. G.E. Haverty was the team captain. Brown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.