Georgia vs. Florida

Saturday, November 7, 1953

Florida beat Georgia 21–⁠7. It was their 32nd meeting; after it, Georgia led the series 24–⁠7–⁠1.

Neutral siteGeorgia3–⁠8 in 1953
7
Neutral siteFlorida3–⁠5–⁠2 in 1953
21

FinalAttendance 36,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 8, 1953, page 68

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    JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov. Z Doug Dickey, Florida’s senior quarterback who lost his starting job to Sophomore Harry Speers a month ago. returned to a star ring role today, passing for one touchdown and running for an other to give Florida a 21–⁠7 vic tory over Georgia. Dickey also took a personal hand in checking the Nation S No. l passing and receiving COM bination of Zeke BratkoWski and John Carson. Bratkowski managed to conmeet with Gene White, his other end, for a touchdown, but it was far short of his usual production and Florida found the Georgia defense every bit as vulnerable as other teams have this season to roll up big ground yardage of 262. Dickey, after breaking up a Bratkowski pass in the Florida end zone. quarterbacked the Gators “a yards to the first touchdown He passed % yards to Jack O’Brien for the score Speers got his hand in on the

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.

Georgia leads 58–⁠44–⁠2 in 104 meetings, counting the 72 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Georgia 24, Florida 20
2024Georgia 34, Florida 20
2023Georgia 43, Florida 20
2022Georgia 42, Florida 20
2021Georgia 34, Florida 7
2020Florida 44, Georgia 28

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