Year: | 1933 |
Team: | Duke Blue Devils |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Southern Conference |
Short Conf: | SoCon |
Record: | 9–1 |
Conf Record: | 4–0 |
Head Coach: | Wallace Wade |
Hc Year: | 3rd |
Off Scheme: | Single-wing |
Mvp: | Fred Crawford |
Captain: | Carl Schock |
Champion: | SoCon champion |
The 1933 Duke Blue Devils football team represented the Duke Blue Devils of Duke University during the 1933 college football season. Hall of Famer Fred Crawford was a consensus All-American this year; the first from North Carolina.
Duke upset Robert Neyland's Tennessee Volunteers 10 to 2. It was Tennessee's first loss in over two and a half seasons.[1] [2] It caused Neyland to say of Crawford: "He gave the finest exhibition of tackle play I have ever seen."[3]
This was also the first season in which Duke played longtime rival Georgia Tech, the teams would go on to meet on the football field every year uninterrupted until 2023.