1954 Kansas State Wildcats football team
| 1954 Kansas State Wildcats football | |
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| Conference | Big Seven Conference |
| 1954 record | 7-3 (3-3 Big 7) |
| Head coach | Bill Meek |
| Home stadium | Memorial Stadium |
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| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #3 Oklahoma $ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nebraska | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Colorado | 3 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Missouri | 3 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas State | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa State | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas | 0 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 10 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1954 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1954 college football season. The team's head football coach was Bill Meek, in his fourth and final year at the helm of the Wildcats. The Wildcats played their home games in Memorial Stadium. The Wildcats finished the season with a 7-3 record with a 3-3 record in conference play. They finished in 5th place in the Big Seven Conference. The Wildcats scored 191 points and gave up 154 points. It would be another 15 years until the Wildcats would outscore their opponents again. The 1969 team would be the next season they did so.
1954 was Kansas State's last winning season until 1970.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | |||||
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| September 18 | Colorado State* | Memorial Stadium • Manhattan, KS | W 29-0 | ||||||
| September 25 | at Wyoming* | War Memorial Stadium • Laramie, WY | W 21-13 | ||||||
| October 2 | at Missouri | Memorial Stadium • Manhattan, KS | L 7-35 | 21,500 | |||||
| October 9 | at Nebraska | Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, NE | W 7-3 | 34,000 | |||||
| October 16 | Tulsa* | Skelly Stadium • Tulsa, OK | W 20-13 | 8,000 | |||||
| October 23 | at No. 1 Oklahoma | Oklahoma Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK | L 0-21 | 46,356 | |||||
| October 30 | Kansas | Memorial Stadium • Manhattan, KS (Sunflower Showdown) | W 28-26 | 21,000 | |||||
| November 6 | at Drake* | Drake Stadium • Des Moines, IA | W 53-18 | ||||||
| November 13 | Iowa State |
Memorial Stadium • Manhattan, KS | W 12-7 | 14,347 | |||||
| November 20 | at Colorado | Folsom Field • Boulder, CO | L 14-38 | 23,600 | |||||
| *Non-conference game. Homecoming. #Rankings from AP. All times are in Central Time. | |||||||||
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