1902 East Florida Seminary football team

College football team August 2023 1902 football 1902 East Florida Seminary football team.jpg 285 East Florida Seminary Independent 2–1 The Ballpark State champion none thumb|200px|Picture in Spalding's Football Guide The 1902 East Florida Seminary football team represented the East Florida Seminary in Gainesville, Florida in the sport of American football during the 1902 college football season. The season consisted of a two-game series with Stetson, which had fielded one of the first intercollegiate football teams in Florida the previous year. The teams split the games, but the East Florida Seminary claimed a state championship because they scored more points in the series. Background The school had been established in 1853https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00000281/00001/13j UF Digital Collections and moved to Gainesville in 1866. Football squads from the East Florida Seminary played a limited slate of games starting in 1902 until 1904. In 1905, the school was consolidated along with Florida Agricultural College in Ocala along with two smaller schools to form the modern University of Florida per the Buckman Act. The new institution established its own football program in 1906, and the university does not include games played by its various predecessor institutions in its athletic records. Schedule Their known schedule is as follows: http://www.lostcolleges.com/#!east-florida-seminary/c1cru East Florida Seminary, A State Military and Collegiate Institute America's Lost Colleges March 2, 2016Athletics https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1491&context=cfm-stetsoncollegiate 24 September 2026 Stetson Weekly Collegiate XIII 3 December 1902 DeLand, Florida 9-11 w Florida Agricultural 11–0The team played Florida Agricultural in one or more games during the 1902 season, but the only thing known is the total score of the entire series. November 22 w Stetson Gainesville, FL 11–6 December 6 l y Stetson DeLand, FL 0–2 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82809662/the-ocala-evening-star/ On the Gridiron Ocala Evening Star 4 December 8, 1902 Notes References East Florida Seminary Category:East Florida Seminary football seasons East Florida Seminary football