Dr. John Risher saw his first University of Virginia football game when he was 9 years old. He didn’t have the 25-cent admission fee to get in, but discovered that he could climb the stairs in his apartment building to get a bird’s eye view of Lambeth Field and the game. That was in 1919. He’s been hooked on Virginia football ever since. Risher, who turned 105 on May 11, still exuberantly reports to Scott Stadium’s press box, where he has been part of the game day statistics crew since the early 1960s.
