Kentucky at Florida
Saturday, October 16, 1954 Share
Florida beat Kentucky 21–7. It was their 14th meeting; after it, Kentucky led the series 10–4 as played.
FinalHigh 83°F, low 48°FAttendance 32,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 17, 1954, page 64
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Fumb|es Help Florida To Defeat Kentucky For 80 League Mark GAINESVILLE, Fla, Oct. 10 Dick Allen, slim sophomore do ing double duty for injured Bobby Lance, quarterbacked both Florida units to a 21–7 victory over Kentucky today and COM manding position in the South eastern Conference football race with a 80 record. Kentucky travelled 72 yards to a touchdown with the opening kickoff. but Florida came right back to tie it up and initiated two more drives with Kentucky fumbles near midfield. Allen passed 10 yards to We’ll ton Lockhart for the first touch down, scored the second team from the first, pitched out to Jackie Simpson for 6 yards and the third. and kicked the three conversions. Kentucky moved the ball with ease until Jared loose from it.. or until Bob Hardy’s passes fell into Florida hands. Hardy scored Kentucky’s touch down and converted. FklentHsk’ Flepids y : 9 9 &e7 - Kentucky scoring: Touchdown-Hardy. ConverSion-Hardy. Florida scoring: Touchdowns-Lockhart. Allen. Simpson. Conversions-Allen 80.
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)
Kentucky 52% to win. Florida won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Kentucky–Florida gameOfficially, Florida leads 54–21; as played, 54–22 in 76 meetings, counting the 62 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 gameat Georgia TechOct. 23, 1954
- SeasonKentucky in 1954
- ProgramKentucky history and records
Florida
- Next gameat LSUOct. 23, 1954
- SeasonFlorida in 1954
- ProgramFlorida history and records

