Georgia at Miami
Friday, December 5, 1952 Share
Georgia beat Miami 35–13. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Georgia led the series 6–2.
FinalAttendance 21,557
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, December 6, 1952, page 12
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Georgia Routs Miami AS Pass Mark Is SET MIAMI, Fla, Dec. GA first half aerial barrage by Georgia’s big quarterback, Zeke Bratkowski overwhelmed Miami last night 1918, and set up new all-time yardage record for Southeastern Conference passers. Bratkowski connected with 16 of % shots for 297 yards to run his grand total for II games this season to 1924 and knock out the record of 1.643 set last year by Kentucky’s Babe Parilli. Three of the Georgian’s passes hit for touchdowns in the first half as Georgia went into a 28-C lead that left nothing in doubt except the size of the score. Miami gave the 21.557 fans plenty to cheer about by outscoring Georgia in the second hall on two touchdown passes by Dor James. Bratkowski heaved touchdown passes OF 81 yafdS TO BoDDy Del linger, 81 yards to John Carson and IS yards to Art DeCarlo in his flrst-half spree. In the last two minutes Of the half, Bratkowski threw a 21-yard beauty to Carson and on the next play fired IS yards to DeCarlo for the fourth touchdown of the half Clipping penalties cancelled two sensational Georgia touch down plays in the second half a 56-yard aerial from Bratkowski to Carson and an 80-yard punt return by Jimmy Campagna. Georgia 7 21 0 7–35 Miami q 8 lib Georgia scoring Touchdowns-Dellinger q. Carson, DeCarlo. Clemens. Conversions Mrvos 5. Miami scoring: Touchdowns-Piper. Nolan. Conversion-Crossman.
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 57% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Georgia–Miami gameGeorgia leads 7–4–1 in 12 meetings, counting the four since this game.
| 1966 | Miami 7, Georgia 6 | |
| 1963 | Georgia 31, Miami 14 | |
| 1961 | Miami 32, Georgia 7 | |
| 1956 | Georgia 7, Miami 7 | |
| 1952 | Georgia 35, Miami 13 | |
| 1949 | Miami 13, Georgia 9 |
Around this game
Georgia
- Next gameat VillanovaSept. 19, 1953
- SeasonGeorgia in 1952
- ProgramGeorgia history and records
Miami
- Next gamevs. Florida StateSept. 25, 1953
- SeasonMiami in 1952
- ProgramMiami history and records

