Duke at Virginia

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, September 30, 1963, page 17

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  VIRGINIA Inexperience, especially in the backfield, has proven disastrous to Virginia’s football team in its first two games. Unfortunately, the situation was worse in the second game than in the first contest. Virginia put up a valiant struggle for a quarter and a half against powerful Duke Saturday, but when the first mistake came, the roof fell In on the Cavaliers. Duke is a team which an opponent can’t afford to make a mistake against. South Carolima found it out two weeks ago and Virginia got an even more convincing lesson ir Saturdays 30–⁠8 loss at Charlottesville,

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 leads 40–⁠34 in 74 meetings, counting the 62 since this game.