Ohio Wesleyan at West Virginia

Saturday, November 22, 1919

West Virginia beat Ohio Wesleyan 55–⁠6. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayOhio Wesleyan0–⁠2 in 1919
6
HomeWest Virginia8–⁠2 in 1919
55

FinalHigh 50°F, low 40°F

In the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story: West Virginia Easily Defeats Ohio WESLEYAN

    New-York tribune, New York, November 23, 1919, page 22

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    West Virginia Easily Defeats Ohio WESLEYAN MORGANTOWN, “. Va. Nov. 22.- West Virginia. with five substitutes in the line-uo had an unexpectedly easy ‘ime with Ohio Wesleyan University mere to-day. winning by the count OF % to i. Ohio Wesleyan WAS strong Only in spots. She took the BAH straight down the field eighty yards for her lone touchdown in The second quarter, but then seemed TO suffer slump till the third period West Virginia played brilliant foot ball The work of Rodgers was simply incomparab’e He gained more than halt the ground credited to his team: scored hve touchdowns and kicked seven Goals from tcuchdowns; kicked far over the goal line on each of the seven uck-ofs. and turned in a run OF slXty-two Yards for a touchdown. Thc Nnc-un:

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 94% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

West Virginia leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

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