Florida at Georgia Tech
Saturday, November 21, 1942 Share
No. 2 Georgia Tech beat Florida 20–7. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Georgia Tech led the series 13–4–3.
FinalHigh 76°F, low 56°FAttendance 15,000
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Florida–Georgia Tech gameGeorgia Tech leads 24–9–6 in 39 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.
| 1981 | Florida 27, Georgia Tech 6 | |
| 1980 | Florida 45, Georgia Tech 12 | |
| 1979 | Georgia Tech 7, Florida 7 | |
| 1978 | Georgia Tech 17, Florida 13 | |
| 1966 | Florida 27, Georgia Tech 12 | Orange Bowl |
| 1963 | Georgia Tech 9, Florida 0 |
Around this game
Florida
- SeasonFlorida in 1942
- ProgramFlorida history and records
Georgia Tech
- Next gameat GeorgiaNov. 28, 1942
- SeasonGeorgia Tech in 1942
- ProgramGeorgia Tech history and records

