VMI at Virginia

Saturday, October 30, 1915

Virginia beat VMI 44–⁠0. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Virginia led the series 7–⁠1.

AwayVMI6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1915
0
HomeVirginia8–⁠1 in 1915
44

FinalHigh 67°F, low 49°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Sunday telegram's story: .QUAKERS CONQUERED. By LAFAY TIE TEAM VIRGINIA TEAM Finds no Difficulty in Defeating Virginia Military Institute By Large Score.

    The Sunday telegram, Clarksburg, W. Va., October 31, 1915, page 14

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    .QUAKERS CONQUERED. By LAFAY TIE TEAM VIRGINIA TEAM Finds no Difficulty in Defeating Virginia Military Institute By Large Score. ATLANTA, Ca, Oct. so.-There were no ups on Southern football fields although vanderDllt’s defeat Of the University Of Tennessee by So to o; and Auburn’s victory over Georgia, 10 to o, caused surprise by reason of the size of the scores. Alabama won its annual game with Sewanee, 20 to TO- while Georgia Teech easily defeated the University of North Carolina, 81 to 8. Yirginia found no difficulty winning from the Virginia Military Institute, ~ to Q. Thurman’s punting being a big factor in the result.

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)

Virginia 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Virginia leads 53–⁠23–⁠2 in 78 meetings, counting the 70 since this game.

Recent meetings
2013Virginia 49, VMI 0
2010Virginia 48, VMI 7
1991Virginia 42, VMI 0
1987Virginia 30, VMI 0
1985Virginia 40, VMI 15
1984Virginia 35, VMI 7

Around this game

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