Georgia vs. Florida

Saturday, November 5, 1949

Florida beat Georgia 28–⁠7. It was their 28th meeting; after it, Georgia led the series 22–⁠5–⁠1.

Neutral siteGeorgia4–⁠6–⁠1 in 1949
7
Neutral siteFlorida4–⁠5–⁠1 in 1949
28

FinalAttendance 36,500

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Hunsinger Shines In FIorido's 28-7 Upset of Georqio

    Evening star, November 6, 1949, page 42

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    Hunsinger Shines In FIorido’s 28–⁠7 Upset of Georqio JACKSONVILLE. Fla. Nov. S. Chuck Hunsinger dashed and smashed Florida to a 28–⁠7 upset victory over Georgia today. Hunsinger. all-Southeastern Conference back of 1948. just about clinched a repeat with the kind of running that can be described best by results. He ran 18 times for 174 yards-an aver age of almost 10 yards-and scored three touchdowns. Florida needed only II plays from scrimmage to score three touchdowns in the first half. The first went So yards on a 37-yard pass play. Angus Williams to Don Brown. and Hunsinger’s first scoring run for 81 yards. Loren Broadus set up the other first-half scores with a punt run back and an interception of a pass by Georgia’s Ray Prosperi. VIII liams sneaked over on the sixth play of a 23-yard push and Hun singer smashed across to end a 28-yard drive. For the only touchdown Of the second half. Florida moved SO yards in seven plays. Hunsinger covered 66 yards of the distance and bulled over from an inch out. Georgia’s lone touchdown tied the game for a short while at TT. The 54-yard march took 13 plays and ended with a 6-yard toss, Prosperi to Bob Walston.

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 65% to win. Florida won as Elo’s underdog.

Georgia leads 58–⁠44–⁠2 in 104 meetings, counting the 76 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Georgia 24, Florida 20
2024Georgia 34, Florida 20
2023Georgia 43, Florida 20
2022Georgia 42, Florida 20
2021Georgia 34, Florida 7
2020Florida 44, Georgia 28

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