Davidson at Virginia
Saturday, September 24, 1921 Share
Virginia beat Davidson 28–0. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Virginia led the series 6–0–1.
FinalHigh 80°F, low 61°F
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Davidson–Virginia gameVirginia leads 8–0–2 in 10 meetings, counting the three since this game.
| 1968 | Virginia 41, Davidson 14 | |
| 1962 | Virginia 34, Davidson 7 | |
| 1935 | Davidson 0, Virginia 0 | |
| 1921 | Virginia 28, Davidson 0 | |
| 1916 | Virginia 14, Davidson 0 | |
| 1909 | Virginia 11, Davidson 0 |
Around this game
Davidson
- Next gamevs. PresbyterianOct. 1, 1921
- SeasonDavidson in 1921
- ProgramDavidson history and records
Virginia
- Next gamevs. George WashingtonOct. 1, 1921
- SeasonVirginia in 1921
- ProgramVirginia history and records

