Marietta vs. West Virginia

Marietta and West Virginia first met in 1909 and have played 6 times; West Virginia leads the series 5–⁠0–⁠1. Over the last 6 meetings it’s West Virginia 5–⁠0, and West Virginia has won the last 4.

Marietta wins
0
West Virginia wins
5
Ties
1
First meeting
1909
Longest streak
4 West Virginia
Current streak
4 West Virginia
Last 10 meetings
West Virginia 5–⁠0
Most recent
1922

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠1
1910s0–⁠3–⁠1
1920s0–⁠1
Average margin
25.5 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At West Virginia
5–⁠0–⁠1 West Virginia’s record at home
Shutouts
5

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

Games that tell the story

  1. West Virginia’s biggest win1919: West Virginia 61, Marietta 0by 61 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Marietta and West Virginia, 1909 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 The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1919 game: FOOTBALL RESULTS

    1919 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Sep 28, 1919

  • The Norwich bulletin's story of the 1922 game: COLLEGE FOOTBALL Yale. IS: North Carolina. 0. Harvard, 20; Holy Cross. Q. Army, IS; Kansas. 0.

    1922 · Norwich bulletin, Oct 9, 1922

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 7, 1922West Virginia 55, Marietta 0at West Virginia
Sep 27, 1919West Virginia 61, Marietta 0at West Virginia
Nov 19, 1915West Virginia 28, Marietta 0at West Virginia
Nov 21, 1914West Virginia 6, Marietta 0at West Virginia
Nov 1, 1913West Virginia 14, Marietta 14at West Virginia
Oct 30, 1909West Virginia 3, Marietta 0at West Virginia

Every game is listed as played on the field.