Virginia at Navy
Saturday, October 3, 1942 Share
Navy beat Virginia 35–0. It was their 14th meeting; after it, Navy led the series 13–1.
FinalHigh 66°F, low 54°FAttendance 15,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 4, 1942, page 38
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npoved Alert Navy Team Sweeps Sparkling $50 Victory Over Virginia Hurricane Blows Sooners Down BY tNe ASkoCIateu FreSS. TULSA, Oct. 3. Tulsa’s Golden Hurricane crushed the Oklahoma Sooners, $50, with a brilliant passing attack today and took its place among the out standing football teams of the southwest. After a hard-fought first quarter, $4,000 fans saw the young Tulsa team launch an aerial Of fensive that scored three touch downs and forced the Sooners to make three desperate stands in side the 5-yard line.

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 5, 1942, page 6 (results column)
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FOOT BAIL @ 5a[3SW{5 IFS Nn The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Southern California 0; Univer- sity of Washington 0. Oregon 0; Washington State ‘, St. Mary’s Preflight IS; UCLA T. Santa Clara IA; Stanford 6. Oregon State 13; California 8. Fordham IA; Tennessee 40. Bernie Bierman’s Iowa Naval Seahawks ‘; Minnesota 6. Iowa State 0; Nebraska 26. Colorado 13; Missouri 26. Auburn 27; Tulane 13. Texas Tech 0; Texas A & M 19. Arkansas 6; Texas Christian 13. Mississippi State 6; Alabama 2l. Pittsburgh 20; Southern Metho- dist T. Miami T; Dartmouth 58. buChIltIl C I Cllli OVobC Ah. Lafayette 0; Army 14. Lehigh 6; Yaie 33. Texas 0; Northwestern 3. Great Lakes Naval Station 25; Iowa 0. Virginia 0; Navy 35. Colgate Is; Cornell 6. Penn IT; Harvard ‘. Indiana 21; Ohio State 32. Butler 0; Illinois 67. Michigan State o; Michigan 20. Rhode Island State 0; Brown 28. Furman T; Georgia 40. Maine 2; Columbia 34. Georgia Tech IS; Notre Dame 6. Williams 19; Princeton 2. South Carolina 6; North Carolina 18. Duke 2; Wake Forest 20.
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)
Navy 59% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Virginia–Navy gameNavy leads 26–10 in 36 meetings, counting the 22 since this game.
| 2017 | Navy 49, Virginia 7 | Military Bowl |
| 1994 | Virginia 47, Navy 10 | |
| 1993 | Virginia 38, Navy 0 | |
| 1992 | Virginia 53, Navy 0 | |
| 1991 | Virginia 17, Navy 10 | |
| 1990 | Virginia 56, Navy 14 |
Around this game
Virginia
- Next gamevs. VMIOct. 10, 1942
- SeasonVirginia in 1942
- ProgramVirginia history and records
Navy
- Next gamevs. PrincetonOct. 10, 1942
- SeasonNavy in 1942
- ProgramNavy history and records

