Kicker helps Florida Gators top Georgia, end losing streak

As 84,444 locked in on the ball, Florida placekicker Chas Henry looked down, the way he was taught by his special teams coach, when the ball left his right foot. But the wait became unbearable, Henry told himself ``it's been long enough, I have to see how this turned out,'' and he looked up just in time to see his kick split the uprights for a game-winning field goal that ended four weeks of frustration for the Gators. Henry's 37-yard field goal not only lifted the Gators to a 34-31 victory over Georgia, but also lifted the spirits of a team that had fallen on hard times. Florida coach Urban Meyer dropped to his knees, Henry was hoisted on his teammates' shoulders, and winded safety Will Hill was finally able to exhale after his 89-yard interception return moments before nearly ended the affair then and there. "We needed that," Meyer said of his longest losing streak at Florida. The Gators brought a three-game losing streak into their annual hoedown with the Bulldogs and, for the first time since 1979, the two rivals entered the game unranked.