The honor of carrying the iconic Lunch Pail cannot be overstated. Current safeties coach and former defensive back Pierson Prioleau will never forget the moment he laid hands on it in after Virginia ...

During the broadcast of Saturday's Virginia Tech-Boston College game, some attention was given to Virginia Tech's lunch pail. This, apparently, is the idea: Every day [defensive tackle John Graves] ...

Director of men’s basketball operations Brad Fadem's assurance of the quality of the lunch pail matched a cursory observation. The lunch pail — a heavy, steel container with P-E-N-N stickered to the ...

Students who carried their lunch often did so in a re-purposed pail or tin of some kind. The Year Of The Lunch Box And then everything changed. The year: 1950.

The lunch pail began as a token for a Hokies’ defense seeking an identity in 1995 when Foster and Rod Sharpless were co-coordinators. Sharpless procured the original pail from his mother-in-law ...

The Virginia Tech lunch pail has long been the source of extra motivation for the defense. It's now a symbol of the team's heart, writes Mark Schlabach.

Among the lunch pail deliverables were bouncy balls and powerful index cards. “The ball represented resiliency,” Walton said. “Once bounced, it doesn’t stay on the ground very long.

Students who carried their lunch often did so in a re-purposed pail or tin of some kind. The Year Of The Lunch Box And then everything changed. The year: 1950.