Vanderbilt at Florida

Saturday, November 16, 1957

Florida beat Vanderbilt 14–⁠7. It was their ninth meeting; after it, Vanderbilt led the series 5–⁠4.

AwayVanderbilt5–⁠3–⁠2 in 1957
7
HomeFlorida6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1957
14

FinalAttendance 28,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Parrish Leads Florida Over Vondy, 14-7

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 17, 1957, page 1

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    Parrish Leads Florida Over Vondy, 14–⁠7 GAINESVILLE. Fla, Nov. 16 (P.-Bernie Parrish circled left end on As and 22-yard touchdown runs within five minutes in the second quarter today and led Florida to a lat victory over Vanderbilt. Paris also made both conversions. He also intercepted a vandy pass midway in a hectic fourth quarter when Wander bits Boyce Smith twice wheeled the Commodores deep into Florida territory and threatened to pull out a tie or victory. Vanderbilt also got its score in the second period. Phil King ran the kickoff following Flor ida’s second touchdown SO yards to the Florida IL and took a 10-yard touchdown pass from Smith. Florida o IA o Ola scorins--vanderbilt: Touchdown King 90. pass from rs Smith Condowns-Parrish 9 as, run: 90. rum. onyersionS-Parrish Q

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 62% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Florida leads 44–⁠11–⁠2 in 57 meetings, counting the 48 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Florida 38, Vanderbilt 14
2022Vanderbilt 31, Florida 24
2021Florida 42, Vanderbilt 0
2020Florida 38, Vanderbilt 17
2019Florida 56, Vanderbilt 0
2018Florida 37, Vanderbilt 27

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