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FRANK BEAMER NOTCHES
FIRST WIN OVER
BOBBY BOWDEN
Shortly before the final seconds ticked off, a few of Tech’s players
dumped a cooler filled with water over Beamer, and while Tech’s
longtime head coach downplayed the victory over the Seminoles
from a personal standpoint, his smiles on the sideline at the end of
the game spoke to the contrary.
—Jimmy Robertson, hokiesports the newspaper,
Nov. 12, 2007 issue
2 0 0 9 ORANGE BOWL
VICTORY OVER CINCINNATI
The Orange Bowl championship trophy is likely the
biggest—and heaviest—that Virginia Tech has ever won.
It took two managers and a pushcart to get the massive
trophy and glass bowl into the lobby of head coach Frank
Beamer’s office—and that’s after the real oranges were
replaced with hollow plastic replicas.
—Bill Roth, Inside Hokie Sports,
January, 2009 issue
2009 CHICK-FIL-A BOWL
V I CTORY OVER TENNESSEE
New Year’s Eve in Atlanta features the annual ritual of dropping
an oversized replica of a peach to commemorate the New Year.
This year, the ritual also featured the Virginia Tech football team
dropping the hammer on Tennessee.
Behind a punishing defense and the typical running of Ryan
Williams, the Hokies closed 2009 by caging ol’ Smokey and
knocking the Volunteers off Rocky Top in a 37-14 rout in the
Chick-fil-A Bowl at the Georgia Dome.
—Jimmy Robertson, Inside Hokie Sports,
January, 2010 issue
HOK I ES ’ 2 0 1 0
ACC TITLE WIN OVER
FLORIDA STATE
Beamer’s 24th team pulled off one of the
great turnarounds we’ve ever seen. The
2010 Virginia Tech Hokies were the first
team in NCAA history to lose their first two
ball games and then win 11 straight. It had
never happened before.
—Bill Roth, Inside Hokie Sports,
December, 2010 issue