1923 Florida Gators football team
Week 1: Florida at Army
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Florida |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • Army
|
0 |
0 |
14 |
6 |
20 |
|
Week 2: Florida at Georgia Tech
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Florida |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
| Ga. Tech |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
7 |
|
Week 3: Rollins at Florida
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Rollins |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • Florida
|
21 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
28 |
|
Week 4: Wake Forest at Florida
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Wake |
0 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
7 |
| • Florida
|
9 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
16 |
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Week 5: Mercer at Florida
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Mercer |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
| • Florida
|
0 |
7 |
6 |
6 |
19 |
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Date: November 4
-
Location: Fleming Field
Gainesville, FL
-
Game attendance: 5,000
|
Week 6: Stetson at Florida
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Stetson |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • Florida
|
7 |
0 |
13 |
7 |
27 |
|
Week 9: Florida at Alabama
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Florida
|
0 |
0 |
9 |
7 |
16 |
| Alabama |
0 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
-
Date: November 29
-
Location: Rickwood Field
Birmingham, AL
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Game attendance: 10,000
-
Game weather: Rain
|
The 1923 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1923 Southern Conference football season. This was Major James Van Fleet's first of two seasons as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Van Fleet was a serving officer in the U.S. Army and a professor of military tactics in the university's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program, and had been a standout fullback on the undefeated West Point Cadets team of 1914. Van Fleet's 1923 Florida Gators finished 6–1–2 overall, and 1–0–2 in the Southern Conference, placing third of twenty-one teams in the conference standings.
Notably, Florida alumni and students celebrated their first-ever Homecoming with a 19–7 victory over the Mercer Baptists. The Gators tied the defending SoCon champion Georgia Tech Golden Tornado, and the highlight of the 1923 season was a 16–6 upset of coach Wallace Wade's previously undefeated Alabama Crimson Tide on a muddy, rain-soaked field in Birmingham, Alabama in the final game of the year.
The 1923 team was built on sophomores. The 1922 Florida freshmen won the southern crown for freshmen squads. The team included Cy Williams, Goldy Goldstein, Edgar Jones, and Bill Middlekauff.
One preseason account reads: "Big Cy Williams, star Freshman tackle of last year and probably the Varsity tackle of this year, was the immediate cause of the 'dummy's' downfall for when he dove into the lifeless foe, it collapsed and Cy was deluged with sawdust. A new 'dummy' was brought out but it is predicted that it will not last long under the fierce tackling of the Gators gridders."
Primary source: 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide.
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