Georgia vs. Florida

Saturday, November 9, 1957

Florida beat Georgia 22–⁠0. It was their 36th meeting; after it, Georgia led the series 25–⁠10–⁠1.

Neutral siteGeorgia3–⁠7 in 1957
0
Neutral siteFlorida6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1957
22

FinalAttendance 41,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Blanks Georgia, 20

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 10, 1957, page 1

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    Blanks Georgia, 20 JACKSONVILLE. Fla, Nov, 8 P)-A trio of Florida quarterbacks threw three touch down passes today and swept the Gators to a 22–⁠0 football victory over Georgia. Jimmy Dunn was the first to find Georgia’s pass defense weakness and tossed nine yards to End Don Fleming in the end zone. Mickey Ellenburg tossed 19 yards to Bernie Parrish for the second score and Jim Rhyme passed 20 yards to Bill New bern for the third. Jim Rountree. his sprained ankle sound for the first time in two weeks, carried the Flor ida running attack that set UP the first score on a 48-yard march. He was the leading runner of the day and voted by sports writer’s the outstanding player A near capacity Gator Bow crowd of 41,000 saw the game Georgia . 0 o o. { Florida z q o 60. Florida scoring: touchdowns Elem ing % pass from Dunn; Parrish u9 pass from Ellenburg): Newbern 30 pass from Rhyne) Safety--Lloyd Georgia snapped ball over kicker head and out of end zone). Conver’

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 67% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Georgia leads 58–⁠44–⁠2 in 104 meetings, counting the 68 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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