Florida at Kentucky

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 4, 1953, page 64

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  KentuckyStuns Florida With Passes, 26–⁠13 LEXINGTON, KY, Oct. 8. - Bob Hardy and Herbie Hunt, pair of bench-warming quarterbacks, pitched Kentucky to a surprise 26–⁠13 Southeastern Conference football victory over Florida tonight. Hardy, who hadn’t been in q ball game since early 1851, hurled scoring strikes of 20 and so yards to Ralph Paolone and Steve Meilinger, respectively, to emphasize Kentucky’S newly found passing power. Hunt, a slender senior whose physical build keeps him from being used on defense, COM pleted the surprise with pitches OF % and 10 yards to Larry HennesSey and Dick Mitchell for touchdownS. Florida, figured to finish in the SECS first division, scored on one-yard plunge by Bill Dearing and a 20-yard pass from Harry Speers to Tommy Had dock 1t was Kentucky’s first win in three starts. Florida. which tied Georgia Tech a week ago, has yet to win in the same number of games. Florida 7 q 6 Ola Florida scoring: Tbuchdowns-Dear- Ing, Haddoek. Conversion-Speers. kentucky scoring. TouchdoHns=Pao-

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  The Key West citizen, October 5, 1953, page 6

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  Auburn Selected SECTeam OF Week ATLANTA R-Auburn, surprise 1870 winner over University Of Mis-. sissippi Saturday, has been voted Team of the Week” by SEC coaches. Eleven votes went to the Tigers in the third weeks poll conducted by the Atlanta Constitution. Coach Ralph Jordan was the only dis senter. The Auburn mentor gave his vote to Kentucky for its 26–⁠13 romp over Florida. Mississippi, a one touchdown favorite, never got started against the hard-charging Tiger line and alert defensive packs. Auburn held the Rebels to 81 yards rushing and n yards passing In winning its first SEC victory since beating Tulane 21–⁠0 In its fifth game Of the 1851 season. The club from the east Alabama plains got 2l5 yards rushing, 80 through the air, and held q 1874 edge in first downs. Auburn joins Mississippi State and Louisiana State as the “Team of the Week” Mississippi State got the vote last week FIR its $50 vic tory over Tennessee. LSU took honors in the first poll with . 2o-7 win from Texas.

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Officially, Florida leads 54–⁠21; as played, 54–⁠22 in 76 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.