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1953 Florida Gators football team

The 1953 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1953 college football season. The season was the fourth for Bob Woodruff as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The 1953 season was a year of rebuilding and backsliding after the graduation of All-American Charlie LaPradd and the loss of fullback Rick Casares to the U.S. Army. The highlight of the season was the Gators' second consecutive victory over the Georgia Bulldogs, but the Gators began a pattern of agonizingly close losses to the Rice Owls (16–20), Auburn Tigers (7–16), Tennessee Volunteers (7–9) and Miami Hurricanes (10–14), as well as two ties with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (0–0) and LSU Tigers (21–21). Woodruff's 1953 Florida Gators finished with a 3–5–2 overall record and a 1–3–2 record in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), placing ninth of twelve SEC teams.^[1]

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Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 19	at No. 12Rice*	No. 15	Rice Stadium Houston, TX	L 16–20	55,000	[2]
September 26	No. 3Georgia Tech		Florida Field Gainesville, FL	T 0–0	41,000	[3]
October 3	atKentucky		McLean Stadium Lexington, KY (rivalry)	L 13–26		[4]
October 10	Stetson*		Florida Field Gainesville, FL	W 45–0	18,000	[5]
October 17	vs. The Citadel*		Gator Bowl Stadium Jacksonville, FL	W 60–0	15,000	[6]
October 24	No. 14LSU		Florida Field Gainesville, FL (rivalry)	T 21–21	39,000	[7]
October 31	atAuburn		Cliff Hare Stadium Auburn, AL (rivalry)	L 7–16	25,500	[8]
November 7	vs. Georgia		Gator Bowl Stadium Jacksonville, FL (rivalry)	W 21–7	36,000	[9]
November 14	No. 18Tennessee		Florida Field Gainesville, FL (rivalry)	L 7–9	29,000	[10]
November 28	atMiami (FL)*		Burdine Stadium Miami, FL (rivalry)	L 10–14	65,000	[11]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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