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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Virginia Cavaliers football team represents the University of Virginia in the sport of American football. The Cavaliers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Established in 1888, playing local YMCA teams and other state teams without pads, the Virginia football program has evolved into a multimillion-dollar operation that plays in front of 61,500 fans at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. Starting in the early 1900s, the program has played an outsized role in the shaping of the modern game's ethics and eligibility rules.Three traditional rivals—North Carolina, Virginia Tech, and Maryland—have all played the Cavaliers more times than any other among their chief rivals. One of the country's longest series is the South's Oldest Rivalry between Virginia and North Carolina, which is a slightly longer series than the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry between Georgia and Auburn. The Cavaliers also compete for the Commonwealth Cup against in-state rival Virginia Tech. Both the Heels and Hokies play in the Coastal Division of the ACC alongside the Cavaliers.The Virginia football program showed sparks of excellence during the eras of George Welsh (being ranked AP #1 for three weeks in 1990) and Arthur Guepe (briefly reaching the rank of AP #9 twice in 1949 and 1952), but the program is often regarded as the \"missing link\" from the overall men's sports dominance that the University of Virginia has shown in recent years en route to winning its first Capital One Cup in 2015. The previous winners of the Cup (Notre Dame, UCLA, and Florida) have enjoyed far greater football successes.Part of this relative lack of success can be attributed to President Colgate Darden's de-emphasis of football after the 1952 season, leading the program to turn down an invitation to the 1953 Cotton Bowl Classic against the Texas Longhorns in the first televised football game. Most significantly, Darden also reduced the number of football scholarships by 80% relative to competing teams when joining the Atlantic Coast Conference later that year, leading Art Gueppe to resign and coach Vanderbilt. While future Presidents would allow the same number of scholarships as its rivals after Darden retired in 1959, Virginia would remain a shadow of its former football self until the 1981 hiring of Welsh some twenty-two years later.Despite these setbacks, Virginia football is still part of the most popular sports program in the state of Virginia as of 2015, where UVA sports are more widely followed than those of its in-state rival Virginia Tech and are more popular than even the local NFL team, the Washington Redskins. UVA also has a Nike contract paying $3.5 million per year that is also significantly more lucrative than a similar agreement with its in-state rival."@en }

• Virginia_Cavaliers_football abstract "The Virginia Cavaliers football team represents the University of Virginia in the sport of American football. The Cavaliers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Established in 1888, playing local YMCA teams and other state teams without pads, the Virginia football program has evolved into a multimillion-dollar operation that plays in front of 61,500 fans at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. Starting in the early 1900s, the program has played an outsized role in the shaping of the modern game's ethics and eligibility rules.Three traditional rivals—North Carolina, Virginia Tech, and Maryland—have all played the Cavaliers more times than any other among their chief rivals. One of the country's longest series is the South's Oldest Rivalry between Virginia and North Carolina, which is a slightly longer series than the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry between Georgia and Auburn. The Cavaliers also compete for the Commonwealth Cup against in-state rival Virginia Tech. Both the Heels and Hokies play in the Coastal Division of the ACC alongside the Cavaliers.The Virginia football program showed sparks of excellence during the eras of George Welsh (being ranked AP #1 for three weeks in 1990) and Arthur Guepe (briefly reaching the rank of AP #9 twice in 1949 and 1952), but the program is often regarded as the \"missing link\" from the overall men's sports dominance that the University of Virginia has shown in recent years en route to winning its first Capital One Cup in 2015. The previous winners of the Cup (Notre Dame, UCLA, and Florida) have enjoyed far greater football successes.Part of this relative lack of success can be attributed to President Colgate Darden's de-emphasis of football after the 1952 season, leading the program to turn down an invitation to the 1953 Cotton Bowl Classic against the Texas Longhorns in the first televised football game. Most significantly, Darden also reduced the number of football scholarships by 80% relative to competing teams when joining the Atlantic Coast Conference later that year, leading Art Gueppe to resign and coach Vanderbilt. While future Presidents would allow the same number of scholarships as its rivals after Darden retired in 1959, Virginia would remain a shadow of its former football self until the 1981 hiring of Welsh some twenty-two years later.Despite these setbacks, Virginia football is still part of the most popular sports program in the state of Virginia as of 2015, where UVA sports are more widely followed than those of its in-state rival Virginia Tech and are more popular than even the local NFL team, the Washington Redskins. UVA also has a Nike contract paying $3.5 million per year that is also significantly more lucrative than a similar agreement with its in-state rival.".