1929 Florida Gators football team

1929 Florida Gators football
Conference	Southern Conference
1929 record	8–2 (6–1 SoCon)
Head coach	Charlie Bachman (2nd season)
Offensive scheme	Notre Dame Box
Captain	Rainey Cawthon
Home stadium	Fleming Field
Uniform
Seasons ← 1928 1930 →

1929 Southern Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Tulane $	6	–	0	–	0			9	–	0	–	0
Tennessee	6	–	0	–	1			9	–	0	–	1
North Carolina	7	–	1	–	0			9	–	1	–	0
Florida	6	–	1	–	0			8	–	2	–	0
Vanderbilt	5	–	1	–	0			7	–	2	–	0
Kentucky	3	–	1	–	1			6	–	1	–	1
Georgia	4	–	2	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
VMI	4	–	2	–	0			8	–	2	–	0
Duke	2	–	1	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
LSU	3	–	2	–	0			6	–	3	–	0
Alabama	4	–	3	–	0			6	–	3	–	0
Clemson	3	–	3	–	0			8	–	3	–	0
VPI	2	–	3	–	0			5	–	4	–	0
Georgia Tech	3	–	5	–	0			3	–	6	–	0
South Carolina	2	–	5	–	0			6	–	5	–	0
Virginia	1	–	3	–	2			4	–	3	–	2
Maryland	1	–	3	–	1			4	–	4	–	2
Washington and Lee	1	–	4	–	1			3	–	5	–	1
Ole Miss	0	–	4	–	2			1	–	6	–	2
Mississippi A&M	0	–	3	–	1			1	–	5	–	2
Sewanee	0	–	4	–	1			2	–	5	–	2
NC State	0	–	5	–	0			1	–	8	–	0
Auburn	0	–	7	–	0			2	–	7	–	0
$ – Conference champion

Week 2: VMI at Florida

1 2 3 4 Total VMI 0 0 7 0 7 • Florida 0 6 6 0 12 Date: October 5 Location: Plant Field Tampa, FL Game attendance: 10,000

Week 3: Florida at Auburn

1 2 3 4 Total • Florida 7 6 6 0 19 Auburn 0 0 0 0 0 Date: October 11 Location: Cramton Bowl Montgomery, AL

Week 4: Florida at Georgia Tech

1 2 3 4 Total Florida 0 0 6 0 6 • Ga. Tech 7 6 6 0 19 Date: October 19 Location: Grant Field Atlanta, GA

Week 5: Georgia at Florida

1 2 3 4 Total Georgia 0 0 0 6 6 • Florida 0 6 6 6 18 Date: October 26 Location: Fairfield Stadium Jacksonville, FL Game attendance: 20,000

Week 6: Florida at Harvard

1 2 3 4 Total Florida 0 0 0 0 0 • Harvard 0 7 0 7 14 Date: November 2 Location: Harvard Stadium Allston, MA Game attendance: 35,000 Referee: Dr. Eddie O' Brien (Tufts)

Week 7: Clemson at Florida

1 2 3 4 Total Clemson 0 0 7 0 7 • Florida 0 6 0 7 13 Date: November 16 Location: Fleming Field Gainesville, FL

Week 8: Florida at South Carolina

1 2 3 4 Total • Florida 7 0 7 6 20 S. Carolina 0 7 0 0 7 Date: November 23 Location: Columbia, SC Referee: Powell (Wisconsin)

Week 9: Washington & Lee at Florida

1 2 3 4 Total W&L 0 0 0 7 7 • Florida 7 6 12 0 25 Date: November 28 Location: Jacksonville, FL Game attendance: 12,000

The 1929 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1929 college football season. The season was Charlie Bachman's second as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Bachman's 1929 Florida Gators finished with an overall record of 8–2, and a conference record of 6–1, placing fourth of twenty-three conference teams.

The highlights of the year included Southern Conference victories over the Virginia Military Institute Keydets, Auburn Tigers, Georgia Bulldogs, Clemson Tigers, South Carolina Gamecocks and Washington & Lee Generals, and a 20–6 intersectional upset over coach John McEwan's Oregon Webfoots in a neutral site game played at the old Madison Square Garden stadium in Miami, Florida.

Former player Edgar Jones became athletic director and Joe Bedenk left. James Van Fleet returned to help assist Bachman.

Coach Bachman began the season's intensive practices on the beach at Anastasia Island, some ten miles from Saint Augustine. A fierce battle amongst the eleven running backs featured. A good backfield was expected.

Bachman later said the 1929 team "was as good as the 1928 team and would have been better had we not lost Carl Brumbaugh from the year before. He was our passer, and he was our thinker. He could get the ball to Van Sickel. In those days the halfbacks passed more than the quarterback. And boy did we pass. In the flats a lot, like they do now."

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