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1919 West Virginia Mountaineers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2
Head coach
Captain Ira Rodgers
Seasons
←  1917
1920 →
1919 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Marshall     8 0 0
Florida Southern     5 0 0
Middle Tennessee State Normal     4 0 0
Phillips     10 0 1
Navy     7 1 0
West Virginia     8 2 0
Mississippi Normal     4 1 2
Presbyterian     4 3 2
North Texas State Normal     5 3 0
Birmingham–Southern     4 3 0
Southwest Texas State     4 4 0
Spring Hill     3 3 1
Childers Classical Institute     2 2 0
West Tennessee State Normal     3 4 0
Chattanooga     3 5 1
Southwestern Louisiana Industrial     2 4 2
Marion     3 6 0
Texas Mines     2 4 0
Delaware     2 5 1
Oglethorpe     2 6 1
Wake Forest     2 6 0
Sam Houston Normal     0 7 0

The 1919 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented the West Virginia Mountaineers during the 1919 college football season. The Mountaineers completed the regular season with an 8–2 record. [1]

As a senior, in 1919, Ira Rodgers had one of the greatest seasons of any player from WVU. Rodgers led the nation in scoring with 147 points on 19 touchdowns and 33 extra-point kicks. He also threw 11 touchdown passes, which was a rare feat for that era and a WVU record until 1949. Rodgers earned consensus All-American honors that season, the first All-American in WVU history.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 27 Marietta
W 61–0
October 4 Westminster (PA)
W 55–0
October 11at PittsburghL 0–26
October 18 Maryland StateMorgantown, WVW 27–0 [2]
October 25vs. Bethany (WV) Wheeling, WVW 60–0
November 1at PrincetonW 25–0
November 8vs. Centre Charleston, WVL 6–14
November 15at Rutgers
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 30–7
November 22 Ohio Wesleyan
  • WVU Athletic Field
  • Morgantown, WV
W 55–0
November 27 Washington & Jefferson
  • WVU Athletic Field
  • Morgantown, WV
W 7–0 [3]

References

  1. ^ "1919 West Virginia Mountaineers Schedule and Results".
  2. ^ "Mountaineers Have Easy Time With Maryland State". Pittsburgh Daily Post. October 19, 1919. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Mountaineers' Aerial Attack Defeated the Wash.-Jeff. Players". Wheeling Intelligencer. November 28, 1919. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.