1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team

1904 University of Florida Blue and White football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–5
Head coach
CaptainBernard Bridges
Seasons
← 1903
1904 Southern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Georgetown     7 1 0
Southwest Texas State     5 1 0
Southwestern Louisiana Industrial     2 0 1
Davidson     6 1 1
Navy     7 2 1
North Carolina     5 2 2
Virginia     6 3 0
North Carolina A&M     3 1 2
West Virginia     6 3 0
VPI     5 3 0
George Washington     4 2 2
Arkansas     4 3 0
Oklahoma     4 3 1
South Carolina     4 3 1
Stetson     2 2 0
Central Oklahoma     2 3 0
VMI     3 5 0
Kentucky University     3 4 0
Grant     2 3 0
Florida State College     2 3 0
Maryland     2 4 2
East Florida Seminary     1 2 0
Goldey College     1 2 0
Baylor     2 5 1
Louisiana Industrial     1 4 0
TCU     1 4 1
Delaware     1 5 1
Kendall     0 2 1
Rollins     0 1 0
Tusculum     0 2 0
Florida at Lake City     0 5 0
Oklahoma A&M     0 6 0
Tennessee Docs     0 7 0

The 1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team represented the University of Florida in Lake City in the sport of American football during the 1904 college football season. This was neither the modern University of Florida nor the modern Florida Gators, but a team fielded by one of its four predecessor institutions that had been known as Florida Agricultural College until 1903.[1] They were led by player-coach Marvin O. Bridges, whose brothers also played on the squad.

College football was becoming more popular, and Bridges wanted to grow the semi-organized Blue and White program into the first in Florida that could compete with more established programs across the south.[2] In an attempt to expedite the process, he sought and received permission to schedule road games against four top out-of-state opponents instead of the handful of contests against nearby colleges and amateur athletic clubs that the school had previously played. The 1904 slate proved too challenging for the squad, which went winless and failed to score a point over the course of its five game season.

The difficult 1904 season would be the final campaign for the program, as the University of Florida in Lake City ceased to exist after the 1904-1905 school term. The Florida legislature consolidated the school with three other state-supported institutions per the Buckman Act of 1905 to establish the modern University of Florida in Gainesville. When the university fielded its first football team in 1906, no players or coaches from the 1904 Blue and White squad were associated with the new program.[2]

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