Kentucky at Florida
Saturday, October 27, 1951 Share
No. 17 Kentucky beat Florida 14–6. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Kentucky led the series 9–2 as played.
FinalHigh 87°F, low 69°FAttendance 31,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 28, 1951, page 42
Read the text
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.
The series
Every Kentucky–Florida gameOfficially, Florida leads 54–21; as played, 54–22 in 76 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.
| 2025 | Kentucky 38, Florida 7 | |
| 2024 | Florida 48, Kentucky 20 | |
| 2023 | Kentucky 33, Florida 14 | |
| 2022 | Kentucky 26, Florida 16 | |
| 2021 | Kentucky 20, Florida 13 | |
| 2020 | Florida 34, Kentucky 10 |
Around this game
Kentucky
- Next gamevs. MiamiNov. 3, 1951
- SeasonKentucky in 1951
- ProgramKentucky history and records
Florida
- Next gamevs. GeorgiaNov. 10, 1951
- SeasonFlorida in 1951
- ProgramFlorida history and records

