Football
The Virginia Tech football team has held the Commonwealth Cup, given to the annual winner of the Virginia Tech-University of Virginia game for over 2,000 days. Virginia Tech has won 10 of the last 11 meetings against their in-state rival, last losing to UVA on November 29, 2003 by a 35-21 score at a game played in Charlottesville. Tech last lost to UVA in Blacksburg during the 1998 season by a 36-32 count.
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)