1918 Florida Gators football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2023 1918 Florida Gators football Independent 0–1 Alfred L. Buser 2nd Gordon Clemons Fleming Field The 1918 Florida Gators football team under second year head coach Alfred L. Buser represented the University of Florida (UF) during the much abbreviated 1918 college football season. Like many universities across the nation, the normal operations of UF were greatly affected by World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic. Intercollegiate athletics were deemphasized, and the football season was delayed and then all but cancelled. As the UF yearbook described it, "the 1918 football season could hardly be dignified with the name", as the Gators did not play a single game against a fellow member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association or any other academic institution.The Football Season 1918 University of Florida Seminole Yearbook May 1919 97 https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00022765/00010/imagesRoger Saylor, "Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association https://web.archive.org/web/20110523072320/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv06/CFHSNv06n2g.pdf 2011-05-23 ," College Football Historical Society, The LA84 Foundation (1993). Retrieved September 11, 2010. Pickup football teams fielded by Student Army Training Corps (SATC) units at the school played several exhibition games against each other and against local high school squads during the fall semester, but these are not included in official program records. The only officially recognized football game played by the Florida Gators in 1918 was a 2–14 loss to a team from Camp Johnston, a U.S. Army training installation in nearby Jacksonville.2024 UF Football Media Guide (PDF) https://floridagators.com/documents/2024/8/13/2024_UF_Media_Guide.pdf Florida Gators University of Florida Athletic Association en However, since no media account or records of this game have been found in university archives or contemporaneous newspapers, the accuracy of the reported location, date, and final score of the lone game of the season has been called into question.Carter Scott Carter's Corner: 1918 Season One of Constant Upheaval for Gators as War and Pandemic Raged https://floridagators.com/news/2020/5/14/general-carters-corner-a-season-of-change-in-gators-history.aspx Florida Gators University of Florida Athletic Association May 13, 2025 en Schedule October 5 l Camp Johnston Fleming Field Gainesville, FL 2–14 References Florida Category:Florida Gators football seasons Category:College football winless seasons Florida Gators football