LSU at Florida

Saturday, October 26, 1963

LSU beat Florida 14–⁠0. It was their 13th meeting; after it, LSU led the series 8–⁠4–⁠1 as played.

AwayLSU7–⁠4 in 1963
14
HomeFlorida6–⁠3–⁠1 in 1963
0

FinalHigh 85°F, low 60°FAttendance 46,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 30, 1963, page 1

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    was States first victory over Duke in II seasons. Wilder has served two Army bitches and under an Atlantic Coast Conference ruling is ELI gible to play only seven games this season. He sat out the previous weeks game against North Carolina and also will be on the sidelines this week against Virginia. Races IS Yards Vollmer took the opening kickoff and raced rs yards. setting up the first Memphis State touchdown. A short time later, he returned a punt and was Knocked out of bounds over his teams bench and onto the running track. He was out cold. He was rushed to a hospital, where the X-rays proved mega tive, was driven back to the football field. He returned to action in the fourth quarter and led the winning drive. Ends Bill Truax of Louisiana State, and Jim Campbell, Of Navy, were strong contenders in the voting by sports writer’s and broadcasters for the top lineman. Truax had a great day as LSU upset Florida, 14–⁠0. Camp bell was outstanding in Nays 24–⁠12 victory over Pitts. He caught seven passes from Roger Staubach for go yards, including four straight for SO yards in 80-yard touchdow Il in the second period as the Panthers tumbled from the unbeaten ranks. Staubach and Merv Holland Of George Washington were nominated for backfield honors, along with Sherman Lewis of Michigan State.

  • The The Nome nugget's story

    The Nome nugget, October 28, 1963, page 7 (results column)

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    another fine job for Purdue. And the Boilermakers blanked Iowa 14 to 0. Minnesota edged Michigan 6 to } and held on to the little brown jug for the fourth straight year. Seventh-ranked Oklah om trampled Kansas State 34 to 9 for it’s fourth victory of the year. A 50-yard run with an inter- cepted pass gave Missouri the only touchdown of the game and a ‘ 70 0 victory over Iowa State. Another brilliant running job by Gale Savers led Kansas to a 41 to 2 rout over Oklahoma State. In the Southeastern Conference Georgia edged Kentucky IF to IA. A pair of touchdown plunges by Don Schwab led Louisiana State to a IA to 0 victory over Florida The Atlantic Coast Conference had major upset with North Caro- lima State beating Duke 21 to ‘. Five different Clemson backs had a chance to score, on short line plunges as the Tigers whipped Virginia 35 to 0. In an upset in the Southwest Conference, it was Texas Tech 13, Southern Methodist 6. In the East, the longest winning streak in major college football came to an end when Harvard up- set Dartmouth IT to 13. Dartmouth had won Is straight games. Underdog Stanford defeated Notre Dame, “A to IA, before 55 ,OOO fans, plus a nationwide television audience. The University of Washington came from behind in a hard hitting g game with independent Oregon to capture a 26 to 19 football victory before a sell-out crowd at Port land.

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)

LSU 51% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Florida leads 34–⁠32–⁠3; as played, 35–⁠34–⁠3 in 72 meetings, counting the 59 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025LSU 20, Florida 10
2024Florida 27, LSU 16
2023LSU 52, Florida 35
2022LSU 45, Florida 35
2021LSU 49, Florida 42
2020LSU 37, Florida 34

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