South Carolina at Virginia

Saturday, November 11, 1916

Virginia beat South Carolina 35–⁠6. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Virginia led the series 5–⁠0.

AwaySouth Carolina2–⁠7 in 1916
6
HomeVirginia4–⁠5 in 1916
35

FinalHigh 60°F, low 47°F

In the newspapers

  • The Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current's story: VIRGINIA TEAM WINS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA But Slight Improvement Noted in Orange and Blue Offense-Meet With Little Resistance WHITE MAKES LENGTHY RUNS Thurman, Carries Ball, and His Punt ing Misunderstanding Opens Sew eral Freak Formations With For ward PaSSes-Scorc, :s5 10 Is.

    Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, November 12, 1916, page 29

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    VIRGINIA TEAM WINS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA But Slight Improvement Noted in Orange and Blue Offense-Meet With Little Resistance WHITE MAKES LENGTHY RUNS Thurman, Carries Ball, and His Punt ing Misunderstanding Opens Sew eral Freak Formations With For ward PaSSes-Scorc, :s5 10 Is. lSpecial To The Times Dispatch CiiARLOTTESNlLLE VA, November ll.-Aftcr sustaining three successive defeats. Virginia won from South Carolima with ease to-day. tn. score stand ing 30 10 s. The game as a whole revealed slight evidence Of Improvement in Niryinia’s ofensc. which heretofore has been very erratic. Some clever runs were made by Z. White. sub quarter. IN the ah- Sence Of WasenkniSht and Darlington. BOTH OF whom are on the injured list: and these. together with some we’ll executed forward passes from freak formation. produced u large proportion oi the NirSinias gaia. Thurman. the star puntcr. also tried his hand mt carrying the ball. and once got away TOR TWENTY-FIVE yards. virginia started the game with rcGulars out of the line-up. Four touch downs We’re registere in the first halt three coming in the second uuartcr when the eleven seemed to strike its stride. Early in the second half Virginia again crossed Cardinals goal line. after IN the last tive minutes of play. the Palmetto boys ralli”v. after securing the ball on a tumble near midncld aud made their only touchdown The Orange and iilue had registered live t”uchdownS. and an entirely new team mad been sent in. II being against this eleven that Carolina scored. when quarterback Semrie circled left end Tor forty wards and Il score. Quarterback White proved Nirginia’s principal ground gamer. running sixty yards once aud going forty-hvc Yards through the Carolina team after II kick nit. Ihurman’s y, ming Was a feature.

  • The The Richmond Virginian's story: SOUTH CAROLINA IS EASY FOR VIRGINIA Orange and Blue Wins Out Over Pal metto State Eleven by 35 to O Score. THURMAN's WORK FEATURES After Virginia Piles Up Sufficient Number of Touchdowns, Substi- tutes Are Given Chance Against Visitors

    The Richmond Virginian, Richmond, Va., November 12, 1916, page 18

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    SOUTH CAROLINA IS EASY FOR VIRGINIA Orange and Blue Wins Out Over Pal metto State Eleven by 35 to O Score. THURMAN’s WORK FEATURES After Virginia Piles Up Sufficient Number of Touchdowns, Substitutes Are Given Chance Against Visitors Special TO The Richmond Virginian.) Charlottesville, Va, Nov. 1l.-Vlrginia did not encounter much opposition in South Carolina today. and won as size pleased, IS TO 6. Four touchdowns were scored in the first half and one IN the third period. after which Coach Evans yanked all of the regulars IN order to try out some OF his second string men. In the last five minutes of play Horton, OF Carolina, recovered a fun bic in midheld. and a moment later Semril went thirty-tve yards around %irg.nias left end for a touchdown. Hampton failed at the try for goal. With both regular quarter backs, Wagenknight and Darlington. on the injured list, G. white, a brother OF J3n White. regular end on the var slty, was called upon; and right well did he FIJI the Job. His brilliant runs proved the feature of the contest once he raced sixty yards. and in the mai period caught the ball on the ilrc’t-uff and returned 1t fifty yards before he was doWned. Russell and knsolvlIg also made consistent gains and once Thurman got away for twenty yard Plumbing In the second period twice prevented Virginia from put ting UP her total. and this fault will have to be corrected before the two remaining games are played. Thur man. besides putting up 81 star game at guard. booted the ball in fine fashion. Some OF his spirals were close to eighty yards Quarterback Semril was the only visiting back Wwho could make any Roadway AGAINST Virginia Lineup:

  • The Arizona republican's story: FOOTBALL RESULTS

    Arizona republican, November 12, 1916, page 16 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL RESULTS Rutgers 0: West Virginia, O. Hamilton. 19; University Buffalo. 0. Springfield (Mass.) Y.M.CA. Train ing, School. 13: Tufts, 6. South Dakota State. “A; North Da- kota. :. Colgate, 35; Rochester. g. Stevens. 19; Connecticut Aggies, B. Johns Hopkins, 21 Western Mary land. o. Haverford. 13; Dickinson. :. 1 Missouri. G. Kansas Aggies. ‘. Kansas. 22; Washburn. 0. Northwestern, 20; Iowa. 13 Mount Union. ‘; Western Reserve, c New York University, 0; Colby, g. Columbia. O: Swarthmore, 15. Pennslaer, 6; Worcester Tech. 6. Williams. 0; Massachusetts Az gies, O Susquehanna, Q; Syracuse. 42. ] l afayette, 32; Albright, 0. Holycross. 19; Bowdoin, 10. Gettysburg, 27; Villa Nova, B. ! West Virginia Wesleyan. 0; George town. 47. ! Case. Al; Oberlin. 0. George Washington. 21; Eastern. 0. Union, g; Amherst 6. Penn. State. 10; Lehigh. T. Ohio State, 46: Indiana, [. Navy, 50; North Carolina Aggies, O. : Army, IT.; Maine. 3. Michigan. 20; Cornell. 23.. 1 NOtre Dame. 21; South Dakota. o. University of Pittsburg, 37; Wash ington and Jefferson. 0. , Pennsylvania, T; Dartmouth, ‘. i Yale, 6; Brown. 21. 1 Harvard, B Princeton. 0. 1 Morningside. 0; Ames, 2. ] Maryland State. 13; Catholic Uni yersity, 9 Marquette. 66; St. Louis Univer- sity. 0. | Transylvsnia. 1s: Mississippi Uni- versity, 3. University of Louisville University of Kentucky game cancelled. Tennessee, 10; Vanderbilt. 6. 3 Georgia Tech, 13; Alabama, 0. Florida. O: Auburn, 20. { Colorado College, 5S; University ot Colorado, 0. Colorado Aggies, 0; Colorado schoo F., Ohio. University, 33; University O Cincinnati 10 k Naoash. 26: Depauw, 13. Haskell Institute. ‘; Emporia Stat’ Normal. 14. Baylor. 0; Texas A. and M, 3. Rice. o5: Tulare. 13. Knox. z; Washington. ‘. Washington and Lee. 5; Buckness, University of Virginia. 35 Univer sity of South Carolina. 6. University of North Carolina. 10 Davidson College. [. University of Oregon, 12; Washing ton State 3 University of Washington. 23; Ore gon Aggies. 0. Santa Clara, 2S; Stanford Univer sity. 5 fRugby). University of California Freshmen

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

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Our ratings (scores only)

Virginia 81% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

South Carolina leads 21–⁠13–⁠1 in 35 meetings, counting the 30 since this game.

Recent meetings
2018Virginia 28, South Carolina 0Belk Bowl
2003South Carolina 31, Virginia 7
2002Virginia 34, South Carolina 21
1987South Carolina 58, Virginia 10
1986Virginia 30, South Carolina 20
1981South Carolina 21, Virginia 3

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