BLACKSBURG Virginia Tech has now played 1,131 games in its 115-plus seasons of football. Never, until Saturday, had two players each rushed for at least 160 yards in the same game. Does that crown the tailbacks who did it, redshirt freshman Ryan Williams and true freshman David Wilson, as the Hokies’ next legendary backfield duo? Not yet.

BLACKSBURG Tony Kennedy and Vaughn Hebron sat in their hotel room on Friday nights, talking about what they saw in that week’s film-study sessions, and where they might find holes in an opponent’s defense the next day. During games, when they formed Virginia Tech’s platooning tailback tandem, they stood on the sideline between series and told each other tendencies they noticed from the defense. Kennedy, who was 5-11 and 210 pounds, brought power to “run over the top of you,“ he said. Hebron, 5-8 and 185 pounds, possessed shiftiness to “stop on a dime like Gale Sayers and cut that thing,“ Kennedy said.

Oglesby Williams   Josh Oglesby, sophomore: A third-year player, Oglesby had 38 carries for 88 yards last season and was, at times, frustrated with his lack of playing time. Now, he gets his chance.
  Ryan Williams, freshman: Thought he was going to play last season but ended up redshirting - a move he reluctantly went along with. Excelled during spring practices. In the spring game, he carried 10 times for 85 yards and caught two passes for 66 yards.

BLACKSBURG The 4-year-old boy’s eyes caught the images flickering across his family’s television screen: gymnasts back-flipping across a mat. He had never seen anything like it before. A short time later, he snuck into the back yard, where his dad couldn’t see him, and tried mimicking the gymnasts. By the end of that day, as the boy remembers now, he called his dad out to the yard, where, for the first time, someone watched David Wilson do a back flip.

David Wilson, an incoming freshman running back for Virginia Tech’s football team, has been named one of the United States’ four captains for the inaugural International Federation of American Football Junior World Championship. Wilson, who attended George Washington High in Danville, is regarded by recruiting Web sites as the best player in Tech’s 2009 class. Rivals.com rates him as the nation’s fourth-best running back.