Centre at Virginia
Saturday, November 1, 1919 Share
Centre beat Virginia 49–7. It was their only meeting on record.
FinalHigh 72°F, low 65°F
In the newspapers

The Richmond Virginian, Richmond, Va., November 2, 1919, page 5
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Virginia Loses to Ky. Centre College Especial TO Richmond virginian.) Charlottesville, Va. Nov. LII the Middle West has any more teams like the one that dropped of here today. Virginia won’t want 70 Uicet them. Centre college OF Ken lucky ran up a total OF forty-nine points In downpour of rain, and the best Virginia could do was TO register a lone touchdown. which followed blocked punt on Centres nineteen-yard line. The Kentucky Backs ran rings around Virginia. Captain Mcmillan. one of the best ali-round players seen here in years. skirted Virginias left end for seven ty yards and later Murphy, sub stitute, twice repeated the stunt, no Virginia tackler being able to over take him. Virginia sent in many substitutes but could not check thu visitors, who registered Two touch = downs in every period but the las. while in that they scored one. kuyk was the oaiy Nirginian who could gain ground. and his taesling featured.

Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 2, 1919, page 29
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VIRGINIA IS SWAMPED BY CENTRE COLLEGE Kentuckians Nearly Duplicate Harvard Score Of Week Ago, Count Being 1877. CHARLOTTESVILLE Va. Noyem. Der University of Virginia was completely outclassed by Centre Col lege of kentucky today. the latter nearly duplicating the score of Harward a week ago. Final score was 40 to z. A drenching rain was falling when play was called. but this never halted the kentuckians, and their speedy backs got away three times for Toyard runs, while Eirginia’s line was penetrated at will. 1t was the most smashing drive eyer seen on Lam petn Field. Two touchdowns were made in the opening quarter.
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 71% to win. Centre pulled the upset.
The series
Every Centre–Virginia gameCentre leads 1–0 in their only meeting.
Around this game
Centre
- Next gamevs. West VirginiaNov. 8, 1919
- SeasonCentre in 1919
- ProgramCentre history and records
Virginia
- Next gameat GeorgiaNov. 7, 1919
- SeasonVirginia in 1919
- ProgramVirginia history and records
