In the Beginning Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College fielded a football team on October 21, 1892. They played a Lutheran Boys’ School, Saint Albans (from Radford). I don’t even know if there was a nickname or mascot for the team back then. They wore Gray and Black, (Chicago Maroon and Burnt Orange would come in ‘94) and the Fighting Gobblers wouldn’t be born until like around the teens. But there are pictures of that gang of rouges in various places. We can’t publish it here, no permission, but it would make a great wall sized print for the Hokie themed man-cave.
Gobbler Country’s Talking Turkey has a Good Ole Rant
