The season was Raymond Wolf's fourth and last as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team.
[2] Led by halfback Chuck Hunsinger, who rushed for 171 yards and three touchdowns, and team captain Jimmy Kynes, who was the defensive star and played every minute of the sixty-minute game,[2] the Gators beat the Dawgs for the first time since 1940.
Tampa insurance salesman George Edmondson Jr., a former Citadel student, was in attendance at the season opening game against his former school and was struck by the lack of support shown by the fans at Florida Field.
This began a decades-long tradition, as Edmonson would continue to lead the cheer from the stands and (eventually) from the field as "Mr. Two Bits" until his retirement from the role in 2008.
After Wolf left Gainesville, he returned to his alma mater, Texas Christian University, where he became a long-time administrator.