It marked the Florida Gators' 15th overall season, and its 9th and final as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA).

Coach Herman Stegeman of Georgia wrote in Spalding's Football Guide "Florida, for the first time, had a strong team.

Aided by Dixon, the South's best punter, they combined a kicking game and a well-diversified offense to good advantage.

[2] Kline's staff faced heavy pressure from the alumni for a winning football team and so "five players were brought the University of Oklahoma and the western states" such as Ferdinand H. Duncan and Ark Newton.

[2][4] [6] A blocked punt proved the difference in the Gators' first win of the season over Camp Benning in Columbus, Georgia 6–0.

In the fourth quarter, T. Hoyt Carlton faked a kick and ran 40 yards for the touchdown; the first of three scored by the Gators in the final period.

[9] Gene Vidal's attempted drop kick was blocked, but he caught the ball off the rebound and ran 20 yards before the time spectators realized what happened.

[12] In a "drizzling rain" and "sea of mud" in Montgomery, AL[14] Florida defeated the Howard Bulldogs 34–0 and gave up just one first down.

[15][16] In a game in Tampa on Plant Field, coach Sol Metzger's South Carolina Gamecocks fought the Gators to a 7–7 tie.

The Gators scored once in the second period, and "threatened to do so again and again from both attempted placement kicks and straight football, only to fall by missing the cross bars by inches and by gameness of the fighting Gamecocks.

Duncan and Ark Newton, with one run from T. Hoyt Carlton, worked the ball down for the game's lone touchdown.

In the middle of the fourth quarter, Florida led a comeback, scoring the tying touchdown after a series of forward passes.

[26] Scheduled since November,[27] the Gators met the North Carolina Tar Heels in a postseason contest at Jacksonville, Florida on December 3.

Among the selectors who honored Perry as such were J. L. Ray of the Nashville Banner, George A. Butler of the Chattanooga News, and John Snell of the Enquirer-Sun.