Florida at Maryland

Saturday, October 18, 1941

Maryland beat Florida 13–⁠12. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Florida led the series 6–⁠4.

AwayFlorida4–⁠6 in 1941
12
HomeMaryland3–⁠5–⁠1 in 1941
13

FinalHigh 68°F, low 45°FAttendance 7,500

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Late Navy Surge Beats Corne 140 Michigan Oveome Northwestern 47 Harvard Dubs Favored Dartmouth Maryland Air Play Np Florida 1912 Win, Lose |: .:':,': or or Draw BY FRANCIS {. STAN, Hollywood Happens to Pro Football

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 19, 1941, page 40

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    Late Navy Surge Beats Corne 140 Michigan Oveome Northwestern 47 Harvard Dubs Favored Dartmouth Maryland Air Play Np Florida 1912 Win, Lose |: .:‘:,’: or or Draw BY FRANCIS {. STAN, Hollywood Happens to Pro Football BALTIMORE, Oct 18To all outward appearances and with another Grizzly Chicago akng toohess Detroit Lions affair less is divided by anthay New Yoks sturdy Giants tackle the Pttsburghs in the main bout. festivities polite to mention the Football front the National League owners of of football because But polite Stadium those John DewS the silver Kmbrough finally o a little football. little football because isn’t New York Americans customers Sammy Baugh Clark Hinkle and Bill Osmansk that neither Kim good but nobody be straoiner and into uniform and win big ball Bill Jack Mcbride Fo Guad whoever happens to be owning New o’clock tomorrow afternoon

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOT BALL @ A{3SWG IFS Mr

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 20, 1941, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOT BALL @ A{3SWG IFS Mr The following are final scores of important football games played last Saturday afternoon: UCLA T; University of Washing ton IA. California T. oregon 19. use T; Washington State 6. Idaho 16; Utah State o. Gonzaga 6; Montana 13. Michigan State o; Santa Clara T. University of San Francisco 26 Stanford 42. Ohio State 16; Purdue IA. Harvard 2; Dartmouth o. Penn 23; Princeton 0. Syracuse 31; University of New York 0. Army 20; Yale 2. Georgia T; Columbia 3. Mississippi 21; Holy Cross 0. Fordham 27; West Virginia 0. Brown 28; Tufts 6. Bucknell 6; Boston University o. Duke 27; Colgate 14. Oklahoma 16; Kansas State 0. Minnesota 39; Pittsburgh 0. Indiana 21; Nebraska l3. Wisconsin 23; Iowa 0. Boston College 26: Manhattan 13. Maryland 13; Florida 12. Illinois 40; Drake o. Alabama 9; Tennessee 2. Missouri 39; Iowa l3.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Florida 54% to win. Maryland won as Elo’s underdog.

Florida leads 12–⁠6 in 18 meetings, counting the eight since this game.

Recent meetings
2001Florida 56, Maryland 23Orange Bowl
1981Florida 15, Maryland 10
1980Florida 35, Maryland 20Tangerine Bowl
1975Maryland 13, Florida 0Gator Bowl
1974Florida 17, Maryland 10
1971Florida 27, Maryland 23

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