Virginia Tech at Virginia

Saturday, October 27, 1945

Virginia beat Virginia Tech 31–⁠13. It was their 30th meeting; after it, Virginia Tech led the series 13–⁠9–⁠3 in the games on file.

AwayVirginia Tech2–⁠6 in 1945
13
HomeVirginia7–⁠2 in 1945
31

FinalHigh 66°F, low 40°FAttendance 12,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: Virginia Turns Back Virginia Tech, 31-13

    The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 28, 1945, page 1

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    Virginia Turns Back Virginia Tech, 31–⁠13 ROANOKE, Va, Oct. 27-tAEThe University of Virginia’s Cavaliers took full advantage Of the breaks mere today to turn back Virginia Tech 81 to 10 before approximately $4,000 persons. The Cavaliers outrushed Tech 258 yards to 1875 with the first down standing lilo in favor of the Cava- Tiers. 1t was John Duda, former Tech player, who did the most damage against the Techmen today. Duda, Navy trainee to Virginia from VP1, scored three of his teams touchdowns and picked up large hunks of yardage.

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)

Virginia 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Virginia Tech leads 62–⁠34–⁠5 in 101 meetings on file, counting the 76 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Virginia 27, Virginia Tech 7
2024Virginia Tech 37, Virginia 17
2023Virginia Tech 55, Virginia 17
2021Virginia Tech 29, Virginia 24
2020Virginia Tech 33, Virginia 15
2019Virginia 39, Virginia Tech 30

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