tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004306236917286956.post5312695934118241432..comments2024-01-02T05:14:48.181-05:00Comments on About Them Dawgs! Blawg: Disregarded GatorsPatrick Garbinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356915340772134104noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004306236917286956.post-87063527479201841412012-12-20T14:53:59.721-05:002012-12-20T14:53:59.721-05:00Oy vey, this again.
In 1845, the Florida Legislat...Oy vey, this again.<br /><br />In 1845, the Florida Legislature authorized the founding of two seminaries of higher learning, one located east of the Suwannee River, the other west of the river.<br />The East Florida Seminary opened in Ocala in 1853.<br />The West Florida Seminary opened in Tallahasee in 1857.<br />The East Florida Seminary closed at the outset of the Civil War in 1861; it reopened in Gainesville in 1866.<br />Separate and apart from the history of the two seminaries authorized in 1851, Florida Agricultural College was chartered as a new land grant school to be opened in Lake City pursuant to the federal Morrill Acts in 1884.<br />As one of a series of faltering and politically disjointed steps to reform the state's higher education "system," the legislature revoked the authority of Florida State College (the renamed West Florida Seminary) to call itself the "University of Florida" in 1903.<br />The legislature authorizes the Florida Agricultural College to use the name "University of Florida," which it assumes from the fall of 1903 to the spring of 1905. Florida Agricultural College and the old University of Florida in Lake City were the same entity, with a simple name change authorized by the legislature.<br />The Florida Agricultural College fielded a football team in 1902; the renamed University of Florida in Lake City fielded a football team in 1903 and 1904. The FAC/UF colors were blue and white.<br />The East Florida Seminary fielded its own football team in 1903 and 1904.<br />With the full political backing of Gov. Broward, the 1905 legislature enacted the Buckman Act that legally abolished all pre-existing state-supported institutions, including Florida State College in Tallahassee, the University of Florida in Lake City, the East Florida Seminary in Gainesville, the St. Petersburg Normal and Industrial School in St. Petersburg, and the South Florida Military Academy in Bartow. The assets and academic programs of the latter four coeducational colleges were consolidated into the new single-sex University of the State of Florida.<br />The president of the old University of Florida in Lake City, Andrew Sledd, was forced to reapply to the new Board of Control to become the president of the new University of the State of Florida.<br />In addition to a new name, the new university had a new charter, a new governing body (the Board of Control), a newly constructed campus in Gainesville (started in 1905 and opened in September 1906), a new organizational structure, new academic programs, a faculty that was approximately one-third different from the old University of Florida in Lake City, new school colors, a new alma mater, a student body that was over half different and was not coeducational, and new sports teams. From the standpoint of corporate law, the old University of Florida (1903–1905) and the new University of the State of Florida (1905–present) were and are different corporate entities.<br />The new university had a football team, with a new coach, in the fall of 1905, but Sledd canceled the season with no games having been played when several of the players failed to satisfy his academic eligibility standards.<br />The new university fielded a football team in the fall of 1906. The team had its second new coach in two years, Jack Forsythe, who was formerly the coach of Florida State College before the Buckman Act. The team also had new colors----orange and blue. No members of the 1904 team were members of the 1906 University of the State of Florida team.<br />The University of the State of Florida officially shortened its name to the University of Florida in 1909.<br />From 1905 to 1932, the modern University of Florida used 1905 on its seal as its official founding date; only after president John Tigert petitioned the state attorney general to use the founding date of the East Florida Seminary, the oldest of the university's four predecessor institutions, did the university alter the founding date to 1853 on its seal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004306236917286956.post-86778226203793751822011-10-20T17:10:38.133-04:002011-10-20T17:10:38.133-04:00Funny how Magill doesn't count the 1943-1944 T...Funny how Magill doesn't count the 1943-1944 Tech games in the series but counts the 1904 Fla game. Seems a little contradictory to me. I know he's a legend and all but, sheesh. I guess he too is a little bias. Great pi=ece, Garbin. Looking forward to your new book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004306236917286956.post-49745247728910852992011-10-20T14:48:30.269-04:002011-10-20T14:48:30.269-04:00Nice read .... thanks!Nice read .... thanks!AthensHomerDawgnoreply@blogger.com