Virginia Tech at West Virginia

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 16, 1952, page 72

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  MORGANTOWN, w. Va, Nov. 15.-F’reshman Fred Wyant threw touchdown passes to Dick Micholson and Paul Bischoff in the final period today to lock up a 27–⁠7 victory for West Virginia over underdog Virginia Tech. All of the winners scores were set up by their defensive unit in a battle which saw the Noun taineers almost tumble away a 1877 lead themselves in rugged second and third periods. Two tumble recoveries, a partly blocked kick and Bob Snider’s So yard punt return to the Virginia Tech II, led to the West Virginia scores. Billy Harrison circled his own right end for As yards to the West Virginia one to set up Johnny Deans sneak from that distance

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.

West Virginia leads 30–⁠23–⁠1 in 54 meetings, counting the 49 since this game.