[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 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 "Blue and White" had never faced off against an out of state opponent, but they assembled a 1904 slate which featured road games against several established southern football programs, including Mike Donahue's first Auburn squad and John Heisman's first team at Georgia Tech.
To reduce travel costs, the team played four road games during a two and a half week train trek through Alabama and Georgia.
They returned to Lake City in mid-October and concluded the season with their lone home game, a match-up with in-state rival Florida State College on October 21.
The slate proved too ambitious for the fledgling program, as the squad went winless and did not score a single point over the entire season.
As a newspaper account reported, "The people of Lake City had expected at least one victory after a long series of defeats encountered by the university and were greatly disappointed.
Five contests against small colleges in Florida and Georgia were scheduled, but four were cancelled because too many players were deemed to be "behind in their studies" by university president Andrew Sledd, who sought to increase the academic rigor of the new institution.