Virginia Military Institute Button
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1974
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Round collegiate button has red, yellow, and white stripes with "V. M. I." in red lettering in the center of the button. The Virginia Military Institure Keydets played their first college football season in 1891. The team is represented by their mascot, Moe the Kangaroo, who was originally known as TD Bound. VMI is also unique in that it requires every student to attend games from beginning to end. The team has featured in several small, regular season bowl games (the Tobacco Bowl and Oyster Bowl) that feature teams from Virginia and Carolina area. The most notable modern mark of V.M.I. football is their rivalry against The Citadel, which is known as the Military Classic of the South.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: level of sport
content: collegiate
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0365.16
label: accession number
content: 1982.0365
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0365.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, collegiate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in; x 3.175 cm