1891 West Virginia Mountaineers football team

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Conference Independent Home stadium Show Lot		1891 record 0–1

Head coach Frederick Lincoln Emory

The 1891 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1891 college football season. Led by Frederick Lincoln Emory in his first and only year as the Mountaineers' head coach, this was the first West Virginia Mountaineers football team. They lost the only game they played Washington & Jefferson 0–72 at the Show Lot in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Schedule

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The inaugural 1891 roster featured fourteen lettermen.

Robert F. Bivens, Washington, D.C. – Back

N. B. Blake, Cox Landing, West Virginia – Guard

Alpheus Edward Boyd, Uniontown, Pennsylvania – End

George M. Ford, Masontown, West Virginia – Center

Gory Hogg, Sewell Station, West Virginia – Quarterback

John Thomas Holbert, Watson, West Virginia

Edward Hortman, Tunnelton, West Virginia

John W. Hughes, Troy, West Virginia – Guard

Samuel Jenkins, Grafton, West Virginia – Tackle

George H. A. Kunst, Pruntytown, West Virginia – Guard

Andrew Price, Marlinton, West Virginia – Tackle

Andrew Brown Smith, Uniontown, Pennsylvania – End

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