Davidson at Virginia

Saturday, September 24, 1921

Virginia beat Davidson 28–⁠0. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Virginia led the series 6–⁠0–⁠1.

AwayDavidson3–⁠4–⁠3 in 1921
0
HomeVirginia5–⁠4 in 1921
28

FinalHigh 80°F, low 61°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Washington herald's story: VIRGINIA DEFEATS DAVIDSON, Is To 0 Orange and Blue Open Grid Season With Easy Victory Over Wildcats"

    The Washington herald, September 25, 1921, page 11

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    VIRGINIA DEFEATS DAVIDSON, Is To 0 Orange and Blue Open Grid Season With Easy Victory Over Wildcats” cHARLoTTEsvILLE. va. Sept. 24.-Virginia pried the lid on her 1921 gridiron season with decisive defeat Of Davidson as to 0. The Orange and Blue eleven was never in danger OF being scored on by the North Carolina Wildcats” virginia opened her oftense in the first few minutes Of play. and after sew eral successful line plays, Capt Rinehart completed a forward pass from Oppleman for the initial score. Coach Warren used a number OF substitutes 10 advantage in the game. Foster and Burge In the last half showed TO advantage. and paved the way for. the last two The Virginia forwards were particularly aggressive. and smeared the Davidson offense time after sime

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 59% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Virginia leads 8–⁠0–⁠2 in 10 meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1968Virginia 41, Davidson 14
1962Virginia 34, Davidson 7
1935Davidson 0, Virginia 0
1921Virginia 28, Davidson 0
1916Virginia 14, Davidson 0
1909Virginia 11, Davidson 0

Around this game

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