Virginia–Virginia Tech football rivalry

"Commonwealth Cup" redirects here. For other uses, see Commonwealth Cup (disambiguation).

For more details on this rivalry in other sports, see Virginia–Virginia Tech rivalry.

Virginia Cavaliers

Virginia Tech Hokies

First meeting

October 5, 1895

Latest meeting

November 26, 2016

Next meeting

November 25, 2017

Statistics

All-time series

Virginia Tech leads, 56–37–5

Largest victory

Virginia Tech, 48–0 (1983)

Longest win streak

Virginia Tech, 13 (2004–present)

Current win streak

Virginia Tech, 13 (2004–present)

The teams meet after the 2006 game.

The Virginia–Virginia Tech football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Virginia Cavaliers football team of the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech Hokies football team of Virginia Tech. The two schools first met in 1895 and have played annually since 1970. Since 1964, the game has always been played at either Lane Stadium or Scott Stadium on the campuses of the two universities. But the series has at times been played in Richmond (1903, 1904, and 1957); Norfolk (1940, 1941, and 1942); and Roanoke (in 17 of the 19 years between 1945 and 1963).

Virginia Tech leads the series 55–37–5,^[1] and the Cup series 17–3. At 97 games, it is the longest series for the Hokies and second-longest for the Cavaliers, after the 118 game series between Virginia and North Carolina known as the South's Oldest Rivalry.

The game counts for 1 point in the Commonwealth Clash each year, and is part of the greater Virginia–Virginia Tech rivalry.

Commonwealth Cup Trophy

In 1996, a trophy was created for the rivalry, known as the Commonwealth Cup. The winning team holds the trophy until the next game, which has been held annually since 1970. Currently, Virginia Tech holds the cup, having won the 2016 game. The trophy is constructed of marble and cherry wood, and is four feet high. It also contains the scores of all of the games in the series.^[2] The cup is engraved with the names of the two schools and is mounted atop a trapezoidal base that makes up most of the trophy's length. The front of the base features a stylized map of Virginia with Blacksburg and Charlottesville represented by stars on the map.^[3]'

Hunter Carpenter in early football days

The Virginia-Virginia Tech rivalry has existed since the late 1800s, but did not reach pre-eminence until the 1980s. Traditionally, Virginia's primary rival had been the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which remains the South's Oldest Rivalry. Virginia Tech's rival was the Virginia Military Institute, with whom they shared a military tradition and similar acronyms (VMI and VPI).

The UVA/VPI rivalry began in earnest 1899, a year that saw Virginia take on northern powerhouses Penn State and Michigan. Virginia's final game of the season was against a squad in the middle of a disastrous first full season, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. That game, a 28–0 decision for Virginia, was a footnote in their year. But for at least one Virginia Tech player, the blowout was much more.

Hunter Carpenter enrolled at Virginia Tech in 1898. He became a man possessed by one thing after the 1899 rout: beating UVA in football. However, after five years of college, Hunter Carpenter graduated from Virginia Tech without achieving his goal.

Infuriated, he played in 1904 at the University of North Carolina. "I just want to beat the University of Virginia," Carpenter was quoted as saying by the Associated Press, in reference to his move to Chapel Hill. However, as a standout on the Tar Heels' football squad, he again failed to win against Virginia for two years in a row.^[4]

Carpenter returned to Virginia Tech in 1905 for a last shot at beating Virginia in his eighth year of college football. Going into the 1905 game, UVA was 8–0 against VPI by a cumulative score of 170–5. The Cavalier Daily ran a story outlining Carpenter's motives and move from Virginia Tech to UNC and back to Tech over the preceding eight years. Virginia accused Carpenter of being a professional player, as he had played college football already for nearly a decade.^[4]

Carpenter signed an affidavit that he had not received payment to play against UVA and, against a backdrop of recrimination, Carpenter led VPI to an 11-0 lead. Carpenter was ejected midway through the game for throwing the ball at the face of a Virginia defender, but stayed on the sidelines to watch as neither team was able to score against each other. Carpenter left immediately after the game and moved to Middleton, New York, never to return to the Commonwealth. Carpenter retired 1–7 against UVA, but the Cavaliers still refused to play Virginia Tech again until 1923.^[4]

Game results

Virginia victories	Virginia Tech victories	Tie games

#	Date	Location	Winner	Score
1	October 5, 1895	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	38–0
2	October 31, 1896	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	44–0
3	November 11, 1899	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	28–0
4	November 14, 1900	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	17–5
5	October 26, 1901	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	16–0
6	November 15, 1902	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	6–0
7	October 24, 1903	Richmond, VA	Virginia	21–0
8	November 5, 1904	Richmond, VA	Virginia	5–0
9	November 4, 1905	Charlottesville, VA	VPI	11–0
10	November 17, 1923	Charlottesville, VA	VPI	6–3
11	November 15, 1924	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	6–0
12	November 14, 1925	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	10–0
13	October 23, 1926	Blacksburg, VA	VPI	6–0
14	October 22, 1927	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	7–0
15	November 10, 1928	Blacksburg, VA	VPI	20–0
16	November 9, 1929	Charlottesville, VA	VPI	32–12
17	November 8, 1930	Blacksburg, VA	VPI	31–13
18	November 14, 1931	Charlottesville, VA	Tie	0–0
19	November 12, 1932	Blacksburg, VA	VPI	13–0
20	November 18, 1933	Charlottesville, VA	Tie	6–6
21	November 17, 1934	Blacksburg, VA	VPI	19–6
22	November 16, 1935	Charlottesville, VA	Tie	0–0
23	November 14, 1936	Blacksburg, VA	VPI	7–6
24	November 13, 1937	Charlottesville, VA	VPI	14–7
25	October 15, 1938	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia	14–6
26	November 18, 1939	Charlottesville, VA	VPI	13–0
27	November 2, 1940	Norfolk, VA	VPI	6–0
28	November 1, 1941	Norfolk, VA	Virginia	34–0
29	October 31, 1942	Norfolk, VA	VPI	20–14
30	October 27, 1945	Roanoke, VA	Virginia	31–13
31	October 5, 1946	Roanoke, VA	Tie	21–21
32	October 4, 1947	Roanoke, VA	Virginia	41–7
33	October 2, 1948	Roanoke, VA	Virginia	28–0
34	October 8, 1949	Roanoke, VA	Virginia	26–0
35	October 7, 1950	Roanoke, VA	Virginia	45–6
36	October 6, 1951	Roanoke, VA	Virginia	33–0
37	October 4, 1952	Roanoke, VA	#16 Virginia	42–0
38	September 26, 1953	Charlottesville, VA	VPI	20–6
39	October 23, 1954	Roanoke, VA	VPI	6–0
40	October 22, 1955	Roanoke, VA	VPI	17–13
41	October 27, 1956	Roanoke, VA	VPI	14–7
42	October 19, 1957	Richmond, VA	Virginia	38–7
43	October 11, 1958	Roanoke, VA	VPI	22–13
44	October 17, 1959	Richmond, VA	VPI	40–14
45	October 22, 1960	Roanoke, VA	VPI	40–6
46	October 21, 1961	Roanoke, VA	VPI	20–0
47	October 6, 1962	Roanoke, VA	VPI	20–15
48	October 5, 1963	Roanoke, VA	VPI	10–0
49	October 3, 1964	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	20–17
50	October 23, 1965	Blacksburg, VA	VPI	22–14

#	Date	Location	Winner	Score
51	October 22, 1966	Charlottesville, VA	VPI	24–7
52	September 12, 1970	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia	7–0
53	November 6, 1971	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia Tech	6–0
54	September 16, 1972	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	24–20
55	October 20, 1973	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia Tech	27–15
56	October 19, 1974	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	28–27
57	October 18, 1975	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia Tech	24–17
58	October 16, 1976	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia Tech	14–10
59	October 15, 1977	Blacksburg, VA	Tie	14–14
60	October 21, 1978	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	17–7
61	November 10, 1979	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	20–18
62	October 18, 1980	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia Tech	30–0
63	November 28, 1981	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia Tech	20–3
64	November 25, 1982	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia Tech	21–14
65	November 19, 1983	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia Tech	48–0
66	September 29, 1984	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia	26–23
67	October 19, 1985	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia Tech	28–10
68	October 25, 1986	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia Tech	42–10
69	September 19, 1987	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	14–13
70	October 29, 1988	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia	16–10
71	November 11, 1989	Charlottesville, VA	#18 Virginia	32–25
72	November 24, 1990	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia Tech	38–13
73	November 23, 1991	Charlottesville, VA	#20 Virginia	38–0
74	November 21, 1992	Blacksburg, VA	#23 Virginia	41–38
75	November 20, 1993	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia Tech	20–17
76	November 19, 1994	Blacksburg, VA	#16 Virginia	42–23
77	November 18, 1995	Charlottesville, VA	#20 Virginia Tech	36–29
78	November 29, 1996	Blacksburg, VA	#17 Virginia Tech	26–9
79	November 29, 1997	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	34–20
80	November 28, 1998	Blacksburg, VA	#16 Virginia	36–32
81	October 2, 1999	Charlottesville, VA	#8 Virginia Tech	31–7
82	November 25, 2000	Blacksburg, VA	#6 Virginia Tech	42–21
83	November 17, 2001	Charlottesville, VA	#18 Virginia Tech	31–17
84	November 30, 2002	Blacksburg, VA	#22 Virginia Tech	21–9
85	November 29, 2003	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia	35–21
86	November 27, 2004	Blacksburg, VA	#11 Virginia Tech	24–10
87	November 19, 2005	Charlottesville, VA	#7 Virginia Tech	52–14
88	November 25, 2006	Blacksburg, VA	#17 Virginia Tech	17–0
89	November 24, 2007	Charlottesville, VA	#8 Virginia Tech	33–21
90	November 29, 2008	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia Tech	17–14
91	November 28, 2009	Charlottesville, VA	#14 Virginia Tech	42–13
92	November 27, 2010	Blacksburg, VA	#14 Virginia Tech	37–7
93	November 26, 2011	Charlottesville, VA	#4 Virginia Tech	38–0
94	November 24, 2012	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia Tech	17–14
95	November 30, 2013	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia Tech	16–6
96	November 28, 2014	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia Tech	24–20
97	November 28, 2015	Charlottesville, VA	Virginia Tech	23–20
98	November 26, 2016	Blacksburg, VA	Virginia Tech	52–10
Series: Virginia Tech leads 56–37–5

References

↑ "Virginia Tech vs Virginia". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
↑ hokiesports.com
↑ Hokiesports.com Commonwealth Cup Trophy. Retrieved October 12, 2007.
1 2 3 Brady, Erik (2007-11-22). "Virginia allegiances driven by rivalry on football field". College Football Update. USA Today.

External links

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