Kentucky at Florida
Saturday, December 6, 1952 Share
Florida beat Kentucky 27–0. It was their 12th meeting; after it, Kentucky led the series 9–3 as played.
FinalHigh 69°F, low 42°F, 0.13 in. of rainAttendance 29,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, December 7, 1952, page 1
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At Bowie where for a change the. weather was sunny, Alerted won the $50, ,00O- added President S Plate. worth $41,00O to the win ner. The winner had to withstand a foul claim by Nick Shuk on second-place Auditing. A crowd Of 1918 backed the winner down to $500 for 81. Tony DeSpirito rode one win ner at Tropical Park, his seth of the year and he needs 81 more to tie the record. Washington-Lee High knocked Mount Vernon out of a chance for its first Northern Virginia schoolboy football title by scoring Q 1876 upset. Idle George Wash ington High thus won the title. The college football season bowed out with about half a dozen scattered games, the most i’m portant of which found Florida a 27–0 victor over Kentucky: Houston scoring 20 points in the last period to defeat Wyoming, 200, and Texas Tech routing North Carolina State. SAT-. “Details I’m Shorts SectiOn.l
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 52% 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 64 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. Texas A&MSept. 19, 1953
- SeasonKentucky in 1952
- ProgramKentucky history and records
Florida
- Next gamevs. TulsaJan. 1, 1953, Gator Bowl
- SeasonFlorida in 1952
- ProgramFlorida history and records

