Virginia Tech at Army

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Birmingham, Ala., October 15, 1905, page 1

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  Virginia Tech 16. West Point 6. West Point, N. Y, October 1.-THE Virgnia Polytechnic institute defeated West Point today in a fiercely contested game by score of 16 to 6. The Virginans scored all their points In the first half, Carpenter leading off with a successful place kick, after four minutes play In this half the southerners plainly outplayed at every point with the features Carpenters long runs. Soon after the beginning of the second half West Point scored on a tumble and Christy was showed over for a touchdown Thorny kicked the goal. This was the only scoring.

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.

Army leads 5–⁠1 in six meetings, counting the five since this game.