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 Cumberland Bridges 

Cake, where did you get this: ""father of modern football at the University.""  I can assure you, you would have a hard time finding anyone associated with the University of Florida that even recognizes Marvin Bridges' name (at least who hasn't read an obscure 1974 book about Florida football by Tom McEwen, the late sports columnist and editor for The Tampa Tribune).  Because Bridges' one-season coaching tenure predates the 1905 Buckman Act merger that created the modern University of Florida, they don't even acknowledge this guy ever existed.  It's almost like 1930s Soviet Russia the way this guy got purged from history.  I guess that's what happens when you go 0–5, whether you play in Lake City or you play in Gainesville, some things never change.  LOL    "