Mississippi State at Florida

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  Evening star, October 25, 1942, page 35

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  Florida Home Comint Is Made Dismal by Mississippi State Gators Thrill Crowd With Late Score in 26-to-l2 Contest GAINESVILLE, Fla, Oct. “a Billy Murphey, the Arkansas Traveler, and “Blondy” Black, ably as sisted by some two dozen other Mississippi State Maroons, whipped the Florida Gators at their home coming today, 26 to IL. Murphey and Black, Joe Warlick, Eagle Matulich and Bob Pillow combined their drives behind a charging line and tipped passes to alert receivers to run up their vic tory score. Some 5000 visitors got a last-minute thrill, however, when Florida smashed over for a touch down a minute before the game ended. Held scoreless in the first quarter. the Maroons broke loose in the second period and Murphey scored from the 2-yard line after his pass to John Grace, for 18 yards, set the stage. Florida surgsd back to tie the score at Gall with a touchdown by Joe Graham on 12-yard pass from Jack Jones. Graham set this one up by recovering a tumble by Mississlppi States Fullback Charley Yancey on the 20. Black charged into scoring positon with bullet passes and some fast running. His pass to Davis across the goal put State ahead p to 6, and Florida never got even again. Bob Pillow and Matulich account ed for States other touchdowns. Pillow plunging over from the s. yard line and Matulich from the 2

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Florida leads 36–⁠19–⁠2 in 57 meetings, counting the 47 since this game.