Virginia at VMI
Saturday, October 20, 1928 Share
VMI beat Virginia 9–0. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Virginia led the series 14–5.
FinalHigh 57°F, low 45°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 21, 1928, page 1 (results column)
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Star CridirOn Acts Find Georgia Tech And Army Winners Army and Georgia Tech won the two foot ball games yesterday in which major interest was centered. the West Pointers doWned Harvard, Is to 0, and the Atlantans conquering Notre Dame, Is to 0. Virginia Military Institute scored the big upset by beating Virginia, 9 to 0. Tennessee also crossed the experts by beating Alabama. Is to is. Purdue furnished another surprise tying Wisconsin at 14-all. In other big games Nebraska beat Syracuse. Z to s; Penn downed Penn State, ID to O.; Illinois trimmed Indiana, Is to Z: Ohio State doWned Michigan, 10 to 7; Yale defeated Brown. 80 to Ia; Princeton routed Lehigh, II to 0, and California and Southern California figured in a scoreless tie. Navy finally won after three defeats. overcoming Duke, to 0. Locally, Georgetown won from West Virginia Wesleyan, 81 to z; Maryland turned back Western Maryland, IS to 6; Gallaudet beat American u, 38 to Z, ard Catholic University bested Will liam and Mary, IS 70 II.
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)
VMI 54% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Virginia–VMI gameVirginia leads 53–23–2 in 78 meetings, counting the 59 since this game.
| 2013 | Virginia 49, VMI 0 | |
| 2010 | Virginia 48, VMI 7 | |
| 1991 | Virginia 42, VMI 0 | |
| 1987 | Virginia 30, VMI 0 | |
| 1985 | Virginia 40, VMI 15 | |
| 1984 | Virginia 35, VMI 7 |
Around this game
Virginia
- Next gameat VanderbiltOct. 27, 1928
- SeasonVirginia in 1928
- ProgramVirginia history and records
VMI
- Next gamevs. MarylandOct. 27, 1928
- SeasonVMI in 1928
- ProgramVMI history and records

