Virginia Tech vs. Virginia

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 25, 1957, page 59

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  CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va. Oct. 25-Army. the ccuntry’s ninth-ranked team, makes its first football appearance In virginia tomorrow as a heavy ia vorite to beat the University Of Virginia. The 2:30 pm. washington time) game at Scott Stadium is sure to attract q capacity crowd Of $4,000. Part Of the crowd viii be Army’s senior class Of SIS. plus q ll4-piece band. Army lost only to Notre Dame in four games. while the up-and-down Cavaliers have a 2-2-l record. It was a similar situation when the two played their only other game In 1854. Army was q five-touchdown ia vorite. The Cadets managed only a 2l-20 victory that time. Tomorrow’s game shapes up as a test between two Of the country’s leading ball carriers, Fullback Jim Bakhtiar OF Virginia and Halfback Bob Anderson. Bakhtiar, in his senior year, has carried the ball 81 times for $50 yards for the NTH best rushing total in the country. Anderson. a brilliant sophomore. has picked up 4l0 yards in so tries and ranks eighth In the country. Bakhtiar was as his best last week against Virginia Tech. contributing four touchdowns toward q 38–⁠7 victory. Reports from West Point are

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Virginia Tech leads 62–⁠34–⁠5 in 101 meetings on file, counting the 64 since this game.