Florida at Auburn

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  Evening star, October 18, 1951, page 67

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  New Coach Gives His Old Team Different Psychology at Auburn hardly see where he’s going with out thick glasses. saw a dim OBJ ject at his feet, Topped on it and learned happily he had recovcred the blocked punt. Allen Parks, who was called on to fill in for the first-string quar- Iterback. Bill Tucker. when Tucker was stricken with polio, then passed to Lee Hayley for an Auburn touchdown. Joe Davis kicked the point and Auburn won. 14–⁠13. In 1850 Florida beat Auburn. .27-7. From 1892 until World War I Auburn and Vandy were the South’s greatest powers. After World War I, Auburn began to fade and except for the 1930s the IPlainsmen weren’t much to brag about. During and after the last war two coaching regimes had hand at Auburn and affairs got much worse. Then last winter Earl Brown, now of the Detroit Lions, was paid a years salary to make room for a newcomer. After due deliberation Jordan was hired. He’s an old Plainsman center who served as assistant with the Miami professional Seahawks at Auburn. and as line coach under Wally Butts at Georgia. First. Jordan pulled out all the psychological stops and got his boys thinking they were good. Then followed the roughest six weeks of spring training ever held in the Southeastern Conference Another month of back-breaking work followed in September and then came Vandy. Wofford and Florida.

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Auburn leads 44–⁠40–⁠2 in 86 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.