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The VMI Keydets football team represents the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. The Keydets compete in the Southern Conference of the NCAA Division I FCS, and are coached by Danny Rocco, named head coach on December 3, 2022. VMI plays their home contests at 10,000-seat Alumni Memorial Field, as they have since 1962.
The 2024 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Keydets were coached by second-year head coach Danny Rocco and played at Alumni Memorial Field in Lexington, Virginia .
VMI cadets are in uniform and their lifestyles are completely controlled." [2] [3] Stonewall Jackson went to VMI and Robert E. Lee is a namesake of Washington & Lee. According to the 1895 VMI yearbook, "W and L U beating us at football would lead to the inevitable consequence, death due to mortification, or heart disease." [4]
NC State hosts VMI at 2 p.m. Saturday for the first time in nearly 80 years. Both teams, however, hope to get back in the win column after losing their Week 2 games.
Photos from the NC State Wolfpack’s game against Virginia Military Institute Keydets at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023.
The VMI Keydets are the athletic teams that represent the Virginia Military Institute.All sports participate in the NCAA Division I, and all but three compete in the Southern Conference (the exceptions being men's and women's swimming and diving in the America East Conference, and women's water polo in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
NC State and VMI began their football series back in the 1890s, predating televisions and statehood for multiple U.S. territories. They’ll play for the first time in 77 years on Saturday.
Though VMI played their first intercollegiate football game in 1873 against Washington and Lee University, the first official team was fielded in 1891 under coach Walter H. Taylor III. The program was successful early on, notching two undefeated seasons in 1894 and 1899 , and another 9–0 campaign in 1920 .