West Virginia at Centre

Saturday, November 8, 1919

Centre beat West Virginia 14–⁠6. It was their first meeting; after it, Centre led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayWest Virginia8–⁠2 in 1919
6
HomeCentre9–⁠0 in 1919
14

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Martinsburg W Va evening journal's story: Centre College Whole Show At Charleston; MOuntaineerS Go Down Blue Grass Gridders Easily Outcass and Oupay West Virginia, Winning Game By Score of ii to 6--Big Surprise Sprung On W. Y. L. Followers.

    Martinsburg W Va evening journal, Martinsburg, W. Va., November 10, 1919, page 3

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    Centre College Whole Show At Charleston; MOuntaineerS Go Down Blue Grass Gridders Easily Outcass and Oupay West Virginia, Winning Game By Score of ii to 6--Big Surprise Sprung On W. Y. L. Followers. Charleston, “ Va Nov. 10 Clearly outplayng the heavier team from Morgantown Centre college. Of Kentucky, won the football game here Saturday from West Virginia University by the score of Il 70 .. ne kentuckians eXcelled in every aneh Of the game except forward ssing and punting. The muddy field apparently did rot prove a handicap TO the spec = ack field OF the Centre college, fire. qaent gains being made by the tack q plays and long runs. and several mes the runners seemed to have q ear field before them. Boberl 5 entries 190-pound fullback, was e1s = the individual star Of the gan West Virginia scored IN the Fl quarter through a pass from Rods IS 70 Archer, then another 10 IN. . allowed Is n end IN and laa Hiunge b. dodgers. which cam ne ball O Rodgers failed to sick a goal although gwen an eas angle. Twice in the second hal West Virginia lad the ball on Cen tres ten yard me but was beLd H.. downs. For West Virginia. Rouge ny the chef ground gamer and tis forward passes aaH=ed. Tazse times the Moear asers were sac cessful in pas ON Ro’sets 81 Hite. vbp slipped nobs I’d tJ side line

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

West Virginia 66% to win. Centre pulled the upset.

West Virginia leads 3–⁠1 in four meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1936West Virginia 26, Centre 13
1926West Virginia 21, Centre 0
1924West Virginia 13, Centre 6
1919Centre 14, West Virginia 6

Around this game

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