Virginia Tech at Rutgers

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 4, 1953, page 65

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  NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ, Oct. 3.-A spirited Rutgers University football team, struggling off the loss of touchdown on a referees quick whistle, surged from behind today to hand highly-favored Virginia Tech it’s first loss in three games, 20–⁠13. A shirtsleeve crowd of 10000 watched Rutgers score all it’s touchdoWns in the second half and kick off its 85th football season on the right side of the ledger. The Gobblers from Blacks burg, Va. quoted as high as Is points better than Rutgers on the basis of their 20–⁠7 upset of the University of, Virginia the week before, led TO at half time and seemed headed for its third victory in a row. But Rutgers caught fire for one score in the third quarter, went ahead 14–⁠13 with another

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 Tech leads 12–⁠5 in 17 meetings, counting the 15 since this game.