Richmond at Virginia

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  Evening star, October 10, 1943, page 26

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  mda $af Spof Richmond Gets Its First Grid Victory Over Virginia. 767 Orange Bowl Tilt Plans Are Made ~ s>~S @ASooSaeSSo iCoB. MIAMI, Fla, Oct. e.-Freshmen and 4-Fs who are carving this seasons big civilian football burden received a unanimous vote Of confidence from the Orange Bowl Committee as the New Year classic was scheduled definitely. I’VE feel that a game up to the Orange Bowl standard can be arranged” said A. A. Unger, committee president. I’VE are going ahead with plans” Tickets will go on sale Novem- Der l in Dade County (MiamD only, and nothing short of unforeseen war-inspired Govern ment restrictions will call of the clash. Unger made it clear that the opposing teams undoubtedly would be made up of freshmen and 4-F players.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 10, 1943, page 1

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  University Of Richmond Downs Virginia, is To z CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Oct. University of Rich mond won its first football game in history from the University of Virglnla today, 16 to 7, before home coming crowd of 1850. The heavier Spider team, with a letterman or Navy transfer who was a varsity man at some other school, in every position, scored in the first and second periods, protected its margin in a hectic third period and added field goal in the final stanza. Virginia registered seven points on brilliant run in the first period by Halfback Bruce Bailey.

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.

Virginia leads 24–⁠3–⁠2 in 29 meetings, counting the 17 since this game.