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Virginia Tech's Burruss Hall VT's 6th president, Paul Brandon Barringer Virginia Polytechnic Institute logo in the 1899 yearbook. In 1872, with federal funds provided by the Morrill Act of 1862, the Reconstruction-era Virginia General Assembly purchased the facilities of Preston and Olin Institute, a small Methodist school for boys in Southwest Virginia's rural Montgomery County.
The Bugle — the school yearbook — for Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (now Virginia Tech) from 1897. Scanned by Virginia Tech. Cleaned up and re-processed by User:B. (The file from Virginia Tech was over 100 megabytes, which exceeds Commons' maximum size.
Virginia Tech's sports teams are called the "Hokies". The word "Hokie" originated in the "Old Hokie" spirit yell created in 1896 by O. M. Stull for a contest to select a new spirit yell when the college's name was changed from Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (VAMC) to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI) and the original spirit yell, which ...
The Virginia Tech Hokies football team represents Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the sport of American football. The Hokies compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference .
Tech administrators, wanting to expand the football program, chose to leave the conference and become a football independent once more. [2] Though Tech joined athletic conferences in other sports during the 1980s, it remained a football independent until 1991, when Virginia Tech became a member of the Big East conference.
"2012 Football Media Guide" (PDF). Virginia Tech "Virginia Tech Coaching Records". College Football Data Warehouse; Lazenby, Roland. Legends: A Pictorial History of Virginia Tech Football. Taylor, Full Court Press (1986) ISBN 978-0-913767-11-5; Tandler, Rich.
WikiProject Virginia Tech hopes to create, assess, and improve articles related to Virginia Tech and the Virginia Tech Hokies. All Top-importance articles should be improved to FA or GA class and all mid-importance articles should be improved to at least B class. Cleanup pages that are related to Virginia Tech and the Virginia Tech Hokies
The Virginia Tech College of Engineering is the academic unit that manages engineering research and education at Virginia Tech. The College can trace its origins to 1872, and was formally established in 1903. Today, The College of Engineering is the largest academic unit of Virginia Tech and has 14 departments of study.