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Hokie Knight
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Hokie Knight

My father would take me to that game every year when I between 8 and 14.

We would get dressed up in our suits and ties, he would always have a bottle with him that he carried in a leather pouch right into the gate and to our seats. Said it was "snake bite medicine" since there were so many snakes in Victory Stadium. I remember there was either the Thanksgiving Day game or what was once known as the Harvest Bowl. Both corps would march in from the train station and the cheer squads would set up paper mache representations of the others mascot on the 50 yard line and blow them up with there respective cannons. My father was a huge VMI fan and I was a budding VT fan (which he didn't care for so much). VPI would go on to win the vast majority of those games, but I remember one year VMI pulled the upset in a close one and my dad would go home with a huge smile on his face. Every year, one of the attractions was the fight that would occur between the two corps. They would start playing the National Anthem to get it to stop. At halftime, the VPI silent drill team part of the Highty Tighties would put on a great show. Damn good memories.
Posted: 11/21/2023 at 02:20 PM ET
(In response to this post by likehokies)

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Victory Stadium.
likehokies • 11/21/23 10:34 AM ET
Shame they let had to tear it down
VaTechHokiesACC • 11/22/23 11:54 PM ET
Those Thanksgiving Day VPI-VMI games were cold. I did learn to dress
IB4TECH • 11/21/23 06:41 PM ET
My father would take me to that game every year when I between 8 and 14. ◄
Hokie Knight • 11/21/23 02:20 PM ET
Same for me. Those days are my happiest memories of my Dad. And I've
HokieNLot11 • 11/21/23 04:49 PM ET
Victory stadium was heavily flooded twice (at least)
Jethro Tull • 11/21/23 01:27 PM ET
My dad played there in the 60’s, his lasting impression was the piss odor**
BROman Hokie • 11/21/23 03:06 PM ET
It was still there in 1972!**
Jethro Tull • 11/21/23 03:23 PM ET
Remember Brian Piccolo Running All Over Hokies!**
battmanvt • 11/21/23 01:25 PM ET
There was a water fountain on the river side of the stadium lot
RJHokie • 11/21/23 01:13 PM ET
Our sandlot football championship game played there in the 70s. Buckskins
40ozDistrict • 11/21/23 01:00 PM ET
Check this out. Made the cover of Sports Illustrated. Line judge smoking a
dolph • 11/21/23 12:48 PM ET
Should be an album cover**
Maroon Baboon • 11/21/23 07:54 PM ET
that guy's about to be flagged for targeting.**
squarerootofone • 11/21/23 02:55 PM ET
Two guys from my hometown in that photo
Hokie Fiji • 11/21/23 02:41 PM ET
Love that pic. There's a lot going on there.
likehokies • 11/21/23 01:00 PM ET
Cool! I did not know this**
HokiePride • 11/21/23 12:53 PM ET
Thanksgiving Game
pegleghokie4 • 11/21/23 12:37 PM ET
last played roanoke 1971
Mercury • 11/21/23 12:22 PM ET
Victory stadium site is where the Medical School campus is..
Mercury • 11/21/23 12:16 PM ET
Nope...**
Hokeedokee • 11/21/23 04:13 PM ET
Believe soccer fields are on the actual stadium
RJHokie • 11/21/23 12:37 PM ET
In the last days of Victory Stadium, it looked like a concentration camp**
No_Limit_Hokie • 11/22/23 04:40 PM ET
Correct. As usual Mercury is wrong **
Brewing_Hokie • 11/21/23 12:54 PM ET
We need to do some retrograde analysis for this 😉**
No_Limit_Hokie • 11/22/23 02:50 PM ET
Correct. The med school is up in the next block. **
HokiePride • 11/21/23 12:54 PM ET
oyster bowl**
HOKIE75-79 • 11/21/23 11:46 AM ET
Attended many of those growing up with two older brothers
OlderHokie • 11/21/23 11:41 AM ET
It was called the Military Classic of the South
mancunian • 11/21/23 10:58 AM ET
Tech Was An All Military School Until Korean Conflict
battmanvt • 11/21/23 01:17 PM ET
Except for GI's coming back after WWII. They were exempted.**
Atlee Hokie • 11/21/23 02:14 PM ET
True!**
battmanvt • 11/22/23 12:07 PM ET
I can see it now if veterans weren't exempted.
Atlee Hokie • 11/22/23 02:45 PM ET
pic: a bargain at any price:**
squarerootofone • 11/21/23 12:25 PM ET
Funny, my dad would have been at that specific game . . .
HokieKip • 11/21/23 12:51 PM ET
$3.25 for a ticket? Outrageous!**
likehokies • 11/21/23 12:35 PM ET
prices were even higher back then on stub hub**
squarerootofone • 11/21/23 12:51 PM ET
Could be because you had to go Back to the Future to acquire them. Time tra
likehokies • 11/21/23 01:02 PM ET
In 1982, VT cadets ran the game ball relay style, about 300 miles
VTBoar • 11/21/23 11:53 AM ET
Correct! V. Stadium demolished since in flood plain and often under water**
George Baylor • 11/21/23 11:48 AM ET
Can't speak to the VMI stuff, but the stadium is gone
darkstar • 11/21/23 10:41 AM ET