Centre vs. West Virginia

Centre and West Virginia first met in 1919 and have played 4 times; West Virginia leads the series 3–⁠1. Over the last 4 meetings it’s West Virginia 3–⁠1, and West Virginia has won the last 3.

Centre wins
1
West Virginia wins
3
Ties
0
First meeting
1919
Longest streak
3 West Virginia
Current streak
3 West Virginia
Last 10 meetings
West Virginia 3–⁠1
Most recent
1936

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s1–⁠0
1920s0–⁠2
1930s0–⁠1
Average margin
12.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Centre
1–⁠0 Centre’s record at home
At West Virginia
2–⁠0 West Virginia’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Centre first
Shutouts
1

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Centre and West Virginia, 1919 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The Martinsburg W Va evening journal's story of the 1919 game: 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.

    1919 · Martinsburg W Va evening journal, Martinsburg, W. Va., Nov 10, 1919

  • The Evening star's story of the 1924 game: WEST VIRGINIA WINS FROM CENTRE, 1876

    1924 · Evening star, Oct 26, 1924

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Oct 24, 1936West Virginia 26, Centre 13Neutral site
Nov 13, 1926West Virginia 21, Centre 0at West Virginia
Oct 25, 1924West Virginia 13, Centre 6at West Virginia
Nov 8, 1919Centre 14, West Virginia 6at Centre

Every game is listed as played on the field.