1951 Florida Gators football team

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1951 Florida Gators football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Record5–5 (2–4 SEC)
Head coach
Home stadiumFlorida Field
Seasons
← 1950
1952 →
1951 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Georgia Tech + 7 – 0 – 0 11 – 0 – 1
No. 1 Tennessee + 5 – 0 – 0 10 – 1 – 0
LSU 4 – 2 – 1 7 – 3 – 1
Ole Miss 4 – 2 – 1 6 – 3 – 1
No. 15 Kentucky 3 – 3 – 0 8 – 4 – 0
Auburn 3 – 4 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Vanderbilt 3 – 5 – 0 6 – 5 – 0
Alabama 3 – 5 – 0 5 – 6 – 0
Florida 2 – 4 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Georgia 2 – 4 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Mississippi State 2 – 5 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Tulane 1 – 5 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from
AP Poll

The 1951 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1951 college football season. The season was Bob Woodruff's second as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The highlights of the season included two intersectional victories over the Wyoming Cowboys (13–0) and the Loyola Lions (40–7), and two Southeastern Conference (SEC) victories over the Vanderbilt Commodores (33–13) during Florida's homecoming and the Alabama Crimson Tide (30–21) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. For the second year in a row, Woodruff's 1951 Florida Gators finished 5–5 overall and 2–4 in the SEC, placing ninth among twelve conference teams.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 15vs. Wyoming*
W 13–025,000[1][2]
September 22The Citadel*
W 27–740,000[3]
September 29Georgia Tech
  • Florida Field
  • Gainesville, FL
L 0–2739,000[4]
October 6at Loyola (CA)*
W 40–715,350[5]
October 13at
Cliff Hare Stadium
  • Auburn, AL (rivalry)
    		• L 13–1422,500[6]
    October 20Vanderbiltdagger
    • Florida Field
    • Gainesville, FL
    		W 33–13[7]
    October 27No. 17 Kentucky
    • Florida Field
    • Gainesville, FL (rivalry)
    		L 6–1431,000[8]
    November 10vs. Georgia
    • Gator Bowl Stadium
    • Jacksonville, FL (rivalry)
    		L 6–737,216[9]
    November 17at Miami (FL)*
    		L 6–2161,602[10]
    November 24at Alabama
    		W 30–2123,000[11]
    • *Non-conference game
    • daggerHomecoming
    • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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