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Randolph–Macon was founded in 1830 by Methodists Hekeziah G. Leigh and John Early [6] and Staten Islander Gabriel Poillon Disosway. It was originally located in Boydton, near the North Carolina border, but as the railroad link to Boydton was destroyed during the Civil War, the college's trustees decided to relocate the school to Ashland in 1868.
Randolph-Macon Academy Color Guard in New York. Randolph-Macon Academy was founded in 1892 by Dr. William W. Smith as part of the Randolph-Macon College preparatory school program. The original 15-acre (0.061 km 2) campus had one main building which housed classrooms as well as dormitories. The original building resembled a castle in its design ...
The Randolph-Macon vs. Hampden–Sydney rivalry is a sports rivalry between the Hampden–Sydney College Tigers and the Randolph–Macon College Yellow Jackets.The college football rivalry between the NCAA Division III schools, often known simply as "The Game", dates to 1893 and has been called the oldest small-school rivalry in the Southern United States.
The college was founded by William Waugh Smith, then-president of Randolph-Macon College, under Randolph-Macon's charter after he failed to convince R-MC to become co-educational. Randolph-Macon Woman's College has historic ties to the current The United Methodist Church (and its predecessor bodies of Methodism in the former Methodist Episcopal ...
The 2023 Randolph–Macon Yellow Jackets football team is an American football team that represents Randolph–Macon College as a member of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) during the 2023 NCAA Division III football season.
Randolph–Macon was also a founding member of the Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1900, and remained in the organization until 1921, when the association dissolved. On November 24, 2020, the 1984 football victory over Hampden Sydney was voted the greatest football game in the history of Randolph Macon dating back to 1891.
In 1948 the Randolph–Macon alumnae association endowed a professorship at Randolph–Macon, the Gillie A. Larew chair of mathematics, to honor "Randolph–Macon's most valuable alumna". [2] The annual Gillie A. Larew Distinguished Teaching Award is the oldest of Randolph College's faculty awards.
The second and final game of the season was against Randolph-Macon Academy in Bedford, Virginia on November 18, 1893. [2] [3] [4] VAMC lost 6–34.[5] [3] However, two newspaper articles from the time list the score as 6–38, [2] and 6–35.