Year: | 1919 |
Team: | West Virginia Mountaineers |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Independent |
Record: | 8–2 |
Head Coach: | Mont McIntire |
Hc Year: | 3rd |
Captain: | Ira Rodgers |
Prev Year: | 1917 |
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.