Wake Forest at Virginia Tech

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  Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, November 4, 1917, page 27

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  VIRGINIA TECH ELEVEN WINS FROM WAKE FOREST Shows Complete Reversal Of Form, Crushing Opponents Under 5O-to-0 Score. GENE BOOK FEATURES GAME Gets Chance After Long Wait and Romps MerrIly Through Down Homers-Rodcn, Parrish, Young er. Crisp and Peyton Also Star. Uf.ACKSBURG. VA. November g. Virginia Tech ran rings around Wake Forest here to-day and crushed their opponents by the weighty score OF so to D. Tech showed complete rever- Erl OF form over their game with Georgetown last Saturday. and two nrst downs were all the CarolinianS were able to register against them. The slaughter began with the whistie and continued uninterrupted until the last two minutes of play. Aerial play counted for little. with the exccption of the forward pass to Younger, near the center OF the field. who raced to the boundary for a touchdown. The big feature man of to-day’s game was Gems Book. IA local boy. who spent most of the time sitting on the side lines aching to get in. Bernier gave the young fellow a chance, and he simply tore the Down Homers” to pieces. In the fourth quarter his gains around the end nctted his team sixty yards. and he cut through the line for thirty five more. The other stars for Tech were: Par IRISH, Younger. Roden. Lybrock. Peyton. Godsey, Benner, Crisp and the entire Poly line. Bowers aud Blanchard played high class ball for their team. The game was clean and we’ll play ed throughout. only two penalties being inflicted. The linc-up:

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Virginia Tech leads 26–⁠14–⁠1 in 41 meetings, counting the 39 since this game.