Virginia at VMI

Saturday, October 20, 1928

VMI beat Virginia 9–⁠0. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Virginia led the series 14–⁠5.

AwayVirginia2–⁠6–⁠1 in 1928
0
HomeVMI5–⁠3–⁠2 in 1928
9

FinalHigh 57°F, low 45°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Star CridirOn Acts Find Georgia Tech And Army Winners

    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.

Virginia leads 53–⁠23–⁠2 in 78 meetings, counting the 59 since this game.

Recent meetings
2013Virginia 49, VMI 0
2010Virginia 48, VMI 7
1991Virginia 42, VMI 0
1987Virginia 30, VMI 0
1985Virginia 40, VMI 15
1984Virginia 35, VMI 7

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