Mercer at Florida
Thursday, November 27, 1913 Share
Florida beat Mercer 24–0. It was their third meeting; after it, the series stood even at 1–1–1.
FinalHigh 77°F, low 56°F
In the newspapers
The Birmingham age-herald, November 28, 1913, page 7
Read the text
FLORIDA ELEVEN DEFEATS MERCER Gainesville, Fla, November 27.-F’lorida today defeated Mercer here, “a to 0. The score fails to indicate the manner in which the battle was fought. Mercer put ting up stubborn game on every play. Straight football won for Florida, the line plunging of Captain Tenney being the feature. A field goal by Price aug mented by three touchdowns from which goals were kicked constituted the measure of MERGERS defeat.
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 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Mercer–Florida gameFlorida leads 10–3–1 in 14 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.
| 1928 | Florida 73, Mercer 0 | |
| 1927 | Florida 32, Mercer 6 | |
| 1926 | Mercer 6, Florida 3 | |
| 1925 | Florida 24, Mercer 0 | |
| 1924 | Mercer 10, Florida 0 | |
| 1923 | Florida 19, Mercer 7 |
Around this game
Mercer
- Next gameat Georgia TechOct. 10, 1914
- SeasonMercer in 1913
- ProgramMercer history and records
Florida
- Next gamevs. AuburnOct. 10, 1914
- SeasonFlorida in 1913
- ProgramFlorida history and records