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1919 West Virginia Mountaineers football team

1919 West Virginia Mountaineers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2
Head coach
CaptainIra 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
Abilene Christian     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.

  1. ^ "1919 West Virginia Mountaineers Schedule and Results".

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