VMI at Georgia Tech

Saturday, November 10, 1951

No. 8 Georgia Tech beat VMI 34–⁠7. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Georgia Tech led the series 10–⁠1.

AwayVMI7–⁠3 in 1951
7
Home8Georgia Tech11–⁠0–⁠1 in 1951
34

FinalHigh 62°F, low 40°FAttendance 21,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 11, 1951, page 1 (results column)

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    Maryland remained among the unbeaten major football teams yesterday by trimming Navy. 40–⁠21 at Baltimore for its seventh straight victory. Navy was ahead briefly In the first period after a 100-yard punt return. but after that the Terrapins took command. Also winning its seventh straight game was Michigan State with a $50 rout over Notre Dame, while Stanford moved toward the Rose Bowl by upsetting Southern California. 27–⁠20. Georgia Tech became the first team assigned to a major post season game by accepting a bid to the Orange Bowl and then crushing Virginia Military Institute, 34–⁠7. In other big games, Illinois pasted

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)

Georgia Tech 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Georgia Tech leads 15–⁠1 in 16 meetings, counting the five since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Georgia Tech 59, VMI 7
1988Georgia Tech 34, VMI 7
1986Georgia Tech 52, VMI 6
1975Georgia Tech 38, VMI 10
1973Georgia Tech 36, VMI 7
1951Georgia Tech 34, VMI 7

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