Virginia at Vanderbilt

Saturday, October 27, 1928

Vanderbilt beat Virginia 34–⁠0. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Vanderbilt led the series 4–⁠3–⁠1.

AwayVirginia2–⁠6–⁠1 in 1928
0
HomeVanderbilt8–⁠2 in 1928
34

Final0.44 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 29, 1928, page 5 (results column)

    Read the text

    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are results Of the principal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Oregon State 29; Washington Idaho 20; California at Los An geles 6. Washington State 51; College of Idaho 0. Gonzaga 6; Whitman O. Stanford 47; Fresno State 0. Montana State 0; Montana Col lege 0. Olympic Club 12; California 0. Southern California 19; oeci- dental 0. Army IS; Yale 6. Illinois 6; Northwestern 0. Iowa [: Minnesota 0. Ohio State 13; Indiana 0. Nebraska 24; Missouri 0. Princeton 3; Cornell 0. Navy 6; Pennsylvania 0. Purdue 40: Chicago 0. Notre Dame 32: Drake O. Kentucky 8; Centre 0. Alabama 42; Suwannee 12. Utah 24; Colorado 6. Haskell IA; Regis 9. South Dakota State 13; South Dakota 0. Texas 13; Rice 6. Ohio 39; Ohio Northern 0. Pittsburgh 0; Carnegie Tech 6. Vanderbilt 34; Virginia 0. Georgia 20; Tulane IA Kansas Aggies 21; Oklahoma B New York University 1T; Colgate 6. Tennessee 26; Washington anf Lee

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)

Vanderbilt 78% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Vanderbilt leads 12–⁠5–⁠1 in 18 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.

Recent meetings
1975Vanderbilt 17, Virginia 14
1973Vanderbilt 39, Virginia 22
1972Vanderbilt 10, Virginia 7
1971Virginia 27, Vanderbilt 23
1959Vanderbilt 33, Virginia 0
1958Vanderbilt 39, Virginia 6

Around this game

Vanderbilt