This newspaper summary, after a questionable call, "The Gators and Noles mixed it up at midfield after the game, caused referee Jack Childress and his officiating gang to require a police escort from The Swamp, and surely will undergo intense study of films this week, though, whatever the judgment will give no comfort to anyone. It may cause the SEC of Florida to suggest to the ACC of Florida State that a new formula for officiating this game be turned over to an unaligned conference rules crew. Now, the rule is the ACC officiates games played at Florida while the SEC officiates games played at Tallahassee, home to the Seminoles.
Perhaps that should have been the way from the start of The Series which had one other game of cry-foul magnitude in 1966 at Tallahassee that favored the Gators. FSU receiver Lane Fenner, who was called out of bounds when his catch of a pass was ruled no-score. The official in that fury was Doug Moseley who judged to have not had control of that ball while still on the playing field. Florida won that game 22-19 but film suggested it was a catch and a loss for the Gators. Then FSU Coach Bill Peterson campaigned exhorting that alleged theft for years, but no avail, and FSU boosters still have the Tampa Tribune Photo of the late Dan Fager behind the their desks in offices all over Florida. The official then, Moseley, said he was hounded for the rest of his time by angry Seminoles, by mail, by phone. There was no e-mail at the time." Thus rose the angry chant that still reverberates from the stands at FSU/Florida games, GO TO HELL FLORIDA, GO TO HELL!
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