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Since 1963, Skipper has been fired after every Virginia Tech score at every home football game. Until 1965, Virginia Tech home games were played on campus at Miles Stadium. Since then, home games have been played at Lane Stadium. Beginning in 2014, Skipper has been on hand to sound the start of festivities at the "Hokie Village", a family ...
The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets (VTCC) is the military component of the student body at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.Cadets live together in residence halls, attend morning formation, wear a distinctive uniform, and receive an intensive military and leadership educational experience similar to those at the United States service academies.
The original "Military Classic of the South" was a football game played on Thanksgiving Day between Virginia Tech (VPI) and the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) beginning in 1913 and lasting until 1985. [2] [3] Unfortunately, as Virginia Tech continued to expand its student body, the game quickly became unmatched and VMI left the series in 1985.
The Virginia Tech Regimental Band, also known as the Highty Tighties, VPI Cadet Band, or Band Company was established in 1893 as a military marching band unit in the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Virginia Tech also has had since 1974 a non-military marching band, The Marching Virginians. [1]
The 2025 Virginia Tech Hokies football team will represent Virginia Tech as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Brent Pry , the Hokies will play their home games at Lane Stadium on the Campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia .
The VMI–Virginia Tech football rivalry is an American college football rivalry [1] between the Keydets of Virginia Military Institute and the Hokies of Virginia Tech (formerly known as the Virginia Polytechnic Institute "Fighting Gobblers"). The teams first played in 1894 and last played in 1984.
The 1955 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute or VPI (now known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University or Virginia Tech) as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1955 college football season.
Virginia Tech's inaugural football team in 1892. Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech) first played football on October 21, 1892, against St. Albans Lutheran Boys School (Radford, Virginia). The game took place on a plowed off wheat field that was "about as level as a side of Brush Mountain". [8]