Kentucky at Florida

Saturday, December 6, 1952

Florida beat Kentucky 27–⁠0. It was their 12th meeting; after it, Kentucky led the series 9–⁠3 as played.

AwayKentucky5–⁠4–⁠2 in 1952
0
HomeFlorida8–⁠3 in 1952
27

FinalHigh 69°F, low 42°F, 0.13 in. of rainAttendance 29,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    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.

Officially, Florida leads 54–⁠21; as played, 54–⁠22 in 76 meetings, counting the 64 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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