North Carolina at Virginia

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  The times dispatch, Richmond, Va., October 27, 1907, page 1

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  In the view of 5000 loyal and wildly enthusiastic adherents of the rival teams. the University Of Virginia foot North Carolina eleven on Broad Street field yesterday afternoon by a score or 9 to 4 in one OF the most brilliant and stubbornly contested games ever seen in this city. Not since the 12–⁠11. victory of Virginia on the same HE’LL in 1904 have the two teams been so we’ll matched. Two thirty minute pes RODS of play We’re had, and every min ute was full of action and stirring struggle that made the blood of the spectators Jingle with excitement. Never nave two more evenly matched elevens played In this city. At the end of the, first half neither team had scored, though Virginia had forced tho ball to Carolina’s one-yard line, and even within a foot of the coveted line. The wearers of the Blue and White made a brilliant stand under their own goal posts. and successfully resisted |Virginia’s desperate o%nslaughts. the line holding like a thing of steel In the crisis. Though it had crumbled occasionally in midield. the Carolin- |ians were impregnable under the shadow of their own goal posts. Carolina First to Score. The Caroliniaps were the first to score. landing a drop kick for goal a few minutes after the second half opened and nom the fifteen-yard line. Thomas dropped the goal, and the south stands We’re a volcano of, light blue and white for several moments. while the banners of navy blue and orange dropped from their staffs and silence lowered over the Virginia stands. Hardly more han five min utes later, however. conditions were reversed. and Carolina was dumb, while an eruption of orange and blue CON verified the north stand into a riot of color nd enthusiasm. Captain Neff had been pushed, pulled. dragged, ground and rolled over the line for the one foot that spelled touchdown. Caro-

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  Daily press. (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, Virginia, October 27, 1907, page 1

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  Ithaca Institution Downs The Tigers on Ihs GrIdITon By Score Of Six 10 Five. IsOIAYs AN9 Penn. PLAY A TIE University CT Virginia Defeats North Carolina by Score Of Nine to Four Yale Rolls up Big Count Against a Weak Team = Harvard’s Poor Showing Against Springfield. The first real big football games of the season took place yesterday and were both complete surprises to the experts who have been making predictions for the past seven days THOR dope wentall astray and Il was again shown that It is utter folly to at tempt 10 compare teams by games they play with the same teams There Is only one way in which TO deter mine which is the better team ana that is to have them play together. There was not an expert in the country who dared predict that Cornell would defeat Princeton, Vet the Ith- AGA institution turned the trick on tho Tigers in the neatest sort of manner, and who would have dreamed that the Indians would play the University OF Pennsylvania TO standstill? hut that is what they did. The result of the Universities OF Virginia and North Carolina was also something of sur prise, as It was believed generally that the Old North State eleven would trim the Charlottesville team. Harvard showed again that 1t is not in The running this year by barely winning from the Springfield Training school, 4 small religious institution, The Yale game was of no Importance and the big score rolled up by the Blue mas no bearing rs it had the weakest opnonent IL has had this year.

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  The Washington herald, District of Columbia, October 27, 1907, page 10

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  VIRGINIA VICTORIOUS North Carolina Beaten in a Hard fought Game. FIELD GOALS BIG FACTOR After Tar Heels Make Four Points by DOOting Ball Between the Uprights, Virginia Comes Back with Touchdown and “A Goal from Field. Superior kicking Tells the Tale,

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Officially, North Carolina leads 66–⁠60–⁠4; as played, 65–⁠51–⁠4 in the 120 games on file; the official count covers all 130 meetings, counting the 115 since this game.