Maryland at Virginia

Saturday, October 11, 1919

Maryland beat Virginia 13–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, Maryland led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayMaryland5–⁠4 in 1919
13
HomeVirginia2–⁠5–⁠2 in 1919
0

FinalHigh 92°F, low 63°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: maryland STATE DEFEATS VIRGINIA Score, 13 to 0-Knode Scores All Points, Kicking Two Field Goals. LOSERS THREATEN ONCE

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 12, 1919, page 30

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    maryland STATE DEFEATS VIRGINIA Score, 13 to 0-Knode Scores All Points, Kicking Two Field Goals. LOSERS THREATEN ONCE CHARLOTTESVILLE Va. October 1I.-Maryland States foot ball team triumphed over Virginia here today by 13 to 0. Forcing the play into Nirginias territory shortly after the opening of the contest. the visitors scored five minutes after the start OF the game and then continued to outplay the Orange and Blue in every department. Just how much better than Virginia were the Marylanders is shown by the fact that during the entire contest Virginia made only two first downs, being able to penetrate the sterling defense of the Wis itors at no time, and narrowly escapped having two more touchdowns made against it. Knode Scores All Points. knode. quarterback and captain of the Maryland eleven, scored all the points. Early in the first quarter he Raw SO hard that he caused the Virginia man to funmble,’ grabbed the ball and was behind the goal posts before he could be downed. Late in the second quarter. after run OF 80 yards by Raedy had placed the ball within 10 yards of Nirginia’s goal. Knode dropped back and boot ed the ball between the bars for a field goal. In the fourth quarter a 25-y yard sprint by Barall again put knode close enough to score another three points on a drop kick. After Maryland State scored its touch down the play was nip and tuck during the remainder of the first quarter. but in the second period the visitors deyeloped a stronger offensive and twice placed the ball on Nirginia’s 1-yard line only to be held for downs. The first half ended with ball on Virginias 1-yard mark. Virginia Has Lone Chance. Only once did Virginia have an opportunity to score. and that came because Of the alertness OF Niche. left end. Niche in the fourth intercepted a forward pass on his own 15-yard line and had a clear field in front OF him Tor IS Yards However, Barran caught the flying Orange and Blue runner on Mary | lands 20-yard line. On the next play | Virginia tried a forward pass. which was intercepted by Barran and run back | 20 yards. Knode kicked out OF danger and the visitors goal was never threat ened after that. Virginia did not get within Maryland 30-yard line at any time during the game, except on the run by Niche. The | fourth quarter developed into kicking duel, with Knode having all the better of Rinehardt and Kuyk.

  • The The Washington herald's story: sETsBAck WESLEYAN MARYLAND STATE DEFEATS VIRGINIA. 3 TO WALTER CAMP-LIFELONG ATHLETE AND SPORTSMAN

    The Washington herald, District of Columbia, October 12, 1919, page 8

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    sETsBAck WESLEYAN MARYLAND STATE DEFEATS VIRGINIA. 3 TO WALTER CAMP-LIFELONG ATHLETE AND SPORTSMAN played on six varsity eleyens and four varsity mines, being captain of the football outfit I’m junior and senior years but refusing the baseball captaincy because he did not believe that teams should be led by men In the graduate schools. In his sophomore year he won the high hurdles at the Yale meet. later being Yale’s representative, with SIocum In the first in tercollegiate lawn tennis cham pionship tournament. As n var

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Virginia 72% to win. Maryland pulled the upset.

Maryland leads 46–⁠32–⁠2 in 80 meetings, counting the 79 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Maryland 27, Virginia 13
2023Maryland 42, Virginia 14
2013Maryland 27, Virginia 26
2012Maryland 27, Virginia 20
2011Virginia 31, Maryland 13
2010Maryland 42, Virginia 23

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