Gene Corum | |
Birth Date: | 29 May 1921 |
Birth Place: | Huntington, West Virginia, U.S. |
Death Place: | Frederick, Maryland, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1941–1942 |
Player Team1: | West Virginia |
Player Years2: | 1945 |
Player Team2: | Fort Benning |
Player Years3: | 1946–1947 |
Player Team3: | West Virginia |
Player Positions: | Guard |
Coach Years1: | 1948–1949 |
Coach Team1: | Point Marion HS (PA) |
Coach Years2: | 1950–1959 |
Coach Team2: | West Virginia (ends) |
Coach Years3: | 1960–1965 |
Coach Team3: | West Virginia |
Overall Record: | 29–30–2 (college) |
Bowl Record: | 0–1 |
Championships: | 2 SoCon (1964–1965) |
Earl Eugene Corum (May 29, 1921 – January 2, 2010) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at West Virginia University from 1960 to 1965, compiling a record of 29–30–2. Corum played college football as a guard at West Virginia in the 1940s and graduated in 1948. He began his coaching career at Point Marion High School in Point Marion, Pennsylvania for two seasons before returning to West Virginia as an assistant coach in 1950.[1]
Corum was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame in 1984. He died on January 2, 2010, in Frederick, Maryland.[2]