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1891 West Virginia Mountaineers football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1891
team	West Virginia Mountaineers
sport	football
image	WV football team 1891.jpg
image_size	285
conference	Independent
record	0–1
head_coach	Frederick Lincoln Emory
hc_year	1st
captain	Robert F. Bivens
stadium	Show Lot
prev_year	none
next_year	1893

The 1891 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1891 college football season. Led by Frederick Lincoln Emory in his first and only year as the Mountaineers' head coach, this was the first West Virginia Mountaineers football team. They lost the only game they played Washington & Jefferson, 72–0, at the Show Lot in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Schedule

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Players

The inaugural 1891 roster featured fourteen lettermen.

Robert F. Bivens, Washington, D.C. – Back
N. B. Blake, Cox Landing, West Virginia – Guard
Alpheus Edward Boyd, Uniontown, Pennsylvania – End
George M. Ford, Masontown, West Virginia – Center
John "Butch" Hackney, Morgantown, West Virginia
Gory Hogg, Sewell Station, West Virginia – Quarterback
John Thomas Holbert, Watson, West Virginia
Edward Hortman, Tunnelton, West Virginia
John W. Hughes, Troy, West Virginia – Guard
Samuel Jenkins, Grafton, West Virginia – Tackle
George H. A. Kunst, Pruntytown, West Virginia – Guard
Andrew Price, Marlinton, West Virginia – Tackle
Andrew Brown Smith, Uniontown, Pennsylvania – End
William G. Swaney, New Cumberland, West Virginia

References

"WVU Series Record vs. Washington & Jefferson Presidents". The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.
"WVU 1891 Schedule". The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.
"WVU 1891 Roster". The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.

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