Clemson at Florida

Saturday, October 11, 1952

Florida beat Clemson 54–⁠13. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Florida led the series 8–⁠2.

AwayClemson2–⁠6–⁠1 in 1952
13
HomeFlorida8–⁠3 in 1952
54

FinalHigh 74°F, low 55°FAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 12, 1952, page 73

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    GAINESVILLE, Fla, Oct. H. Florida’s great defensive team headed by Tackle Charlie Lapradd shook Clemson loose from the ball time after time today and made it surprisingly easy for runners Rick Casares and Buford Long to spearhead Florida to a 54–⁠13 vic tory. Favored at most by one touch down the Florida Gators kept taking the ball away by fumbles. pass interceptions and reeling off touchdown after touchdown. They made two in each of the first two periods, one in the third and three in the last. Only two of Fiorida’s touch downs came on drives started after kick off or punt, and the Gators failed to cash only one scoring chance. Long scored two touchdowns

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)

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

Florida leads 9–⁠3–⁠1 in 13 meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1961Florida 21, Clemson 17
1956Clemson 20, Florida 20
1954Clemson 14, Florida 7
1952Florida 54, Clemson 13
1937Clemson 10, Florida 9
1930Florida 27, Clemson 0

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