Kentucky at Florida

Saturday, October 27, 1951

No. 17 Kentucky beat Florida 14–⁠6. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Kentucky led the series 9–⁠2 as played.

Away17Kentucky8–⁠4 in 1951
14
HomeFlorida5–⁠5 in 1951
6

FinalHigh 87°F, low 69°FAttendance 31,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, October 28, 1951, page 42

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    GAINESVILLE. Fla, Oct. 27.- Vito Parilli was the Kentucky Babe today if he ever was,s throw ing a pair of long touchdown passes for q 14–⁠6 victory over Florida before $1,000. Haywood Sullivan, Florida quarterback, found a Kentucky line man hanging on his neck every time he tried to pass, but he shared in a running attack that gave the Kentucky Wildcats all they could handle. Five Florida fumbleS, one with IN eight yards of the Kentucky goal, cut down the Gators threats except for one 46-yard touchdown march. Kentucky’s identical twins Larry and Harry Jones, shared honors with Parilli early in the game. Larry Jones got behinc Florida’s defense and caught a scoring pass of 56 yards and Harry Jones kicked both extra points Parilli threw 38 yards to Harold Gruner in the last period to clinch the win. Sam oosterhoudt ran Z yards

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)

Kentucky 58% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Florida leads 54–⁠21; as played, 54–⁠22 in 76 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Kentucky 38, Florida 7
2024Florida 48, Kentucky 20
2023Kentucky 33, Florida 14
2022Kentucky 26, Florida 16
2021Kentucky 20, Florida 13
2020Florida 34, Kentucky 10

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