Florida at Georgia Tech

Saturday, November 21, 1942

No. 2 Georgia Tech beat Florida 20–⁠7. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Georgia Tech led the series 13–⁠4–⁠3.

AwayFlorida3–⁠7 in 1942
7
Home2Georgia Tech9–⁠2 in 1942
20

FinalHigh 76°F, low 56°FAttendance 15,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Georgia Tech Takes Florida In Stride, Boosts Bowl Bid Engineers, Using Second -Stringers, Held Even in First Half Then Prevail, 20-7

    Evening star, November 22, 1942, page 37

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    Georgia Tech Takes Florida In Stride, Boosts Bowl Bid Engineers, Using Second -Stringers, Held Even in First Half Then Prevail, 20–⁠7 four yards. Then Eldredge took the ball from pass-faking Castleberry’s hand and raced Al yards to goal. Jack Marshall started Techs last touchdown drive by intercepting a pass at midheld in the fourth quarter. Plaster, Castleberry and Mar shall put together their running, passing and pass-receiving to reach Floridas l. The Gators rose up temporarily to stop two plunges, but Castleberry squirted through tackle on third down for the tally. Plaster place-kicked the point.

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)

Georgia Tech 88% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Georgia Tech leads 24–⁠9–⁠6 in 39 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.

Recent meetings
1981Florida 27, Georgia Tech 6
1980Florida 45, Georgia Tech 12
1979Georgia Tech 7, Florida 7
1978Georgia Tech 17, Florida 13
1966Florida 27, Georgia Tech 12Orange Bowl
1963Georgia Tech 9, Florida 0

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