SL(3,3) IS NOT A MAXIMAL SUBGROUP OF THE LIE GROUP OF TYPE F4

We show that SL(3, 3) does not occur in F-4(C) as a finite maximal subgroup by establishing that each subgroup isomorphic to SL(3,3) normalizes an elementary abelian subgroup of F-4(C) of order 27. We also show that SL(3, 3) acting with a feted action on the split Jordan algebra associated with F-4 for any field of characteristic not 2 or 3 preserves a unique Jordan algebra structure.