Virginia Tech at Army

Saturday, October 20, 1962

Army beat Virginia Tech 20–⁠12. It was their sixth meeting; Army leads the series 5–⁠1.

AwayVirginia Tech5–⁠5 in 1962
12
HomeArmy6–⁠4 in 1962
20

FinalHigh 73°F, low 42°FAttendance 25,124

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: CAMMY CLICKS CoIonioIs Leery Of Lewis Passes

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 25, 1962, page 61

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    CAMMY CLICKS CoIonioIs Leery Of Lewis Passes last year played a reserve role in nine of the 10. He heaved a 55-yard scoring strike to Fullback Ray Paske in the 48–⁠13 victory over Will liam & Mary last fall. The following week he came into the game late against Oklahoma and guided the Cadets to their only touchdown in a 14–⁠8 defeat. The New York press started clamoring for more appear ances by Lewis, but the next game was Navy and the 6-foot-1 195-pounder watched from the sidelines as Army lost again 1877. Completes 20 of Al Lewis finished the 1861 season with IL competitions in II passes, the best average among all the quarterbacks. In Army’s five games this fall he has Connected 20 of AZ times for 26s yards and four touchdownS. Lewis actually is the No. Z quarterback behind Joe Black grove, who is a superior runner but under Dietzel’s setup he has played at least as many min utes. Caramy went all the way against Syracuse and had his best, day in the 90 victory Last Saturday he called the signals which produced al three scores in the 20–⁠12 de. ciSion over Virginia Tech, pass ing So J yards to End KEN woodbury. for the second touch down, This Saturday BlackgrovC and Dick Eckert, who has beer injured, will share the quarter. back job on the Regulars, but don’t be surprised if Lewis No IL jersey comes into the game early and often. An academy spokesman sale this week that Lewis is eX’ tremely popular with the res of the squad. ‘gThe team seems to spark when he’s in there, the man said, land he cal throw that long strike”

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)

Army 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Army leads 5–⁠1 in six meetings.

Recent meetings
1962Army 20, Virginia Tech 12
1948Army 49, Virginia Tech 7
1947Army 40, Virginia Tech 0
1942Army 19, Virginia Tech 7
1938Army 39, Virginia Tech 0
1905Virginia Tech 16, Army 6

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