The 1939 Florida Gators football team represented the

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during the

1939 college football season The 1939 college football season concluded with the Aggies of The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (Texas A&M) being named as the national champions by the voters in the Associated Press writers' poll. Led by consensus All-American ...

. The season was the fourth and final year for

Josh Cody Joshua Crittenden Cody (June 11, 1892 – June 17, 1961) was an American college athlete, head coach, and athletics director. Cody was a native of Tennessee and an alumnus of Vanderbilt University, where he played several sports. As a versatil ...

as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Cody's 1939 Florida Gators finished with a 5–5–1 overall record, but with a winless 0–3–1 record in the

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(SEC), placing twelfth of thirteen teams in the SEC. Florida was ranked at No. 95 (out of 609 teams) in the final

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for 1939.

Schedule

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Postseason

After leaving Florida, Josh Cody would later become the long-time head coach of the Temple Owls men's basketball team and the

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athletic director, and was inducted into the

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as a player in 1970.College Football Hall of Fame, Hall of Famers, Josh Cody Member Biography Retrieved August 30, 2010.

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