1911 Florida Gators football team

1911 Florida Gators football
Conference	Independent
1911 record	5–0–1
Head coach	George E. Pyle
Captain	Neal Storter
Seasons « 1910 1912 »

1911 college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Washington			–					7	–	0	–	0
Florida			–					5	–	0	–	1
Carlisle			–					11	–	1	–	0
Virginia			–					8	–	2	–	0
North Carolina			–					6	–	1	–	1
Oregon Agricultural			–					5	–	2	–	0
North Carolina A&M			–					5	–	3	–	0
Oregon			–					3	–	2	–	0
Montana			–					2	–	1	–	0
Maryland			–					4	–	4	–	2
Washington State			–					3	–	3	–	0

Florida at South Carolina

1 2 3 4 Total Florida 6 0 0 0 6 S. Carolina 0 6 0 0 6 Date: October 21 Location: Davis Field • Columbia, SC Sources:

Florida at Clemson

1 2 3 4 Total • Florida 0 0 0 6 6 Clemson 5 0 0 0 5 Date: October 25 Location: Bowman Field Calhoun, SC Game start: 4:10 p. m. Referee: Captain Hill (Georgia Tech) Sources:

Florida at Stetson

1 2 3 4 Total • Florida 0 9 9 8 26 Stetson 0 0 0 0 0 Date: November 11 Location: DeLand, FL Game attendance: 1,500 Sources:

The 1911 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1911 college football season. The season was George Pyle's third as the head coach of the University of Florida football team. The University of Florida adopted the "Florida Gators" nickname for its sports teams in 1911; the earlier Florida football teams were known simply as "Florida" or the "Orange and Blue." Pyle's newly christened Florida Gators finished their sixth varsity football season 5–0–1—the first, and to date, the only undefeated season in the history of the Florida Gators football program.

It was a pivotal year in the growth of the young Florida football program. Florida played four different college football teams from the state of South Carolina, including The Citadel Bulldogs, the South Carolina Gamecocks, the Clemson Tigers and the College of Charleston Cougars, and finished 3–0–1 against the four South Carolina college teams and returned home to Gainesville to celebrate with their new nickname: the "Florida Gators."

The team was captained by Neal "Bo Gator" Storter. The team was also the first to use the nickname "Gators." He is as such one reason given for the nickname. A former player Roy Corbett sent a letter to The Gainesville Sun congratulating the 1928 team and mentioned the nickname coming from Storter. Carl Van Ness's research also posits Storter as the name's origin. Storter himself denied the above and stated the nickname 'Gators' came when a Macon Telegraph reporter declared "Macon to be invaded by a bunch of alligators from Florida" before the game with Mercer in 1910.

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