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unusual facts about The Mountaineers



Blythe Hill Fields

Blythe Hill Fields is the title of a track by singer songwriter Ceri James, of the Welsh group The Mountaineers.


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1981 West Virginia Mountaineers football team

Oliver Luck was the starting quarterback for the Mountaineers.

1988 West Virginia Mountaineers football team

Free-safety Darrell Whitmore was out for the Mountaineers, but Nehlen moved star Bo Orlando from strong safety to free to fill the hole.

2002 West Virginia Mountaineers football team

Rasheed Marshall was the starting quarterback for the Mountaineers.

2007 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team

Entering their third consecutive national championship game, the Mountaineers were looking to become the first team to win three in a row at the FCS (I-AA) level since the playoffs began in 1978.

2007 National Invitation Tournament

The post-tournament celebration by the Mountaineers was overshadowed by a typographical error on the championship T-shirt, on which the school name was rendered as WEST VIRGINA.

Armanti Edwards

The Mountaineers began the 2008 campaign against the LSU Tigers, the first time defending FBS and FCS champions have met to open the season.

Bakhtrioni Uprising

The battle at Bakhtrioni, and the heroism of the mountaineers, inspired Vazha-Pshavela his epic poem Bakhtrioni (1892), while Akaki Tsereteli wrote a whole novel about it, Bashi-Achuki.

Bruce Bosley

Bosley was a third team Class B all-state fullback at Green Bank High School when he was offered a full scholarship to play for the Mountaineers.

Johannes Herber

Herber, alongside with Kevin Pittsnogle and Mike Gansey, was a key player on the Mountaineers' NCAA regional finalists in 2005 and highly ranked 2006 team.

Samina Baig

The expedition to the summit took 48 days, the team traversed the South Col pass in eight hours, with the mountaineers reaching their goal on the sixtieth anniversary of Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing's first successful conquest of Everest.