1939 Florida Gators football team

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The 1939 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1939 college football season. The season was the fourth and final year for Josh Cody as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Cody's 1939 Florida Gators finished with a 5–5–1 overall record, but with a winless 0–3–1 record in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), placing twelfth of thirteen teams in the SEC.[1]

ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Record5–5–1 (0–3–1 SEC)
Headcoach
CaptainClark Goff
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1939 Florida Gators football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Record5–5–1 (0–3–1 SEC)
Head coach
CaptainClark Goff
Home stadiumFlorida Field
Uniform
Seasons
← 1938
1940 â†’
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1939 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf.Overall
Team W L  W L 
No. 2 Tennessee +6–0–010–1–0
No. 16 Georgia Tech +6–0–08–2–0
No. 5 Tulane +5–0–08–1–1
Mississippi State3–2–08–2–0
Ole Miss2–2–07–2–0
Kentucky2–2–16–2–1
Auburn3–3–15–5–1
Alabama2–3–15–3–1
Georgia1–3–05–6–0
LSU1–5–04–5–0
Vanderbilt1–6–02–7–1
Florida0–3–15–5–1
Sewanee0–3–03–5–0
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll
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Florida was ranked at No. 95 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[2]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 238:00 p.m.Stetson*
W 21–05,000[3][4]
September 30at Texas*
L 0–1217,000[5]
October 7Mississippi State
  • Florida Field
  • Gainesville, FL
L 0–14[6]
October 12at Boston College*
W 7–020,000[7]
October 218:00 p.m.Tampa*
  • Florida Field
  • Gainesville, FL
W 7–06,000[8][9]
October 28at Maryland*
W 14–010,000[10]
November 4at South Carolina*
L 0–65,000[11]
November 11vs. Georgia
L 2–620,000[12]
November 188:15 p.m.at Miami (FL)*
W 13–026,000–28,000[13][14][15][16][17][18]
November 25No. 19 Georgia Techdagger
  • Florida Field
  • Gainesville, FL
L 7–2115,000[19]
November 30at Auburn
T 7–713,000[20]
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time
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Postseason

After leaving Florida, Josh Cody would later become the long-time head coach of the Temple Owls men's basketball team and the Temple University athletic director, and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1970.[21]

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