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2017 RECORD BOOK WVUSupplement Hall of Famers .................................. 2 WVU Consensus All-Americans ............... 5 Network Television Appearances ............. 7 100-Yard Rushing Games .......................10 200-Yard Passing Games .......................17 100-Yard Receiving Games ....................21 200/300-Yard Total Offense Games .......24 Defensive Touchdowns ...........................28 Career Total Tackles ................................29 Games with 100 or Fewer Passing Yards Allowed .................31 Season Leaders .......................................32 Attendance Records ...............................40 Night Games ............................................42 Opponents’ Records ...............................44 Mountaineers Who Have Played ............46 All-Star Participants .................................47 Awards and Honors .................................49 All-Time Assistant Coaches ....................56 Series Records vs. FBS Conferences ....58 WVU’s NFF College Footballand Hall ofFame Selections West Virginia’s second-ever consensus All-American in 1955, Bruce Bosley was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982. A native of Fresno, Calif., who grew up in Green Bank, W.Va., Bosley played on the 1954 Sugar Bowl team for the Mountaineers. That squad finished as the 10th- ranked team in the nation. He went on to a long and prosperous NFL career with the San Francisco Bruce Lee 49ers and Atlanta Falcons for 13 seasons. A four-time Pro Bowl pick in 1960, 1965, 1966 and 1967, Bosley is a member of the San Francisco 49ers all-time team. The 6-2, 240-lb., center retired in 1969. BOSLEY He died April 25, 1995, in San Francisco, Calif. College Football Hall of Fame Inducted: 1982 as a player Bobby Bowden, the No. 2 all-time win leader among college football coaches had an impressive 44-year coaching career which included two national championships. He served as head coach at West Virginia University from 1970-75, compiling a record of 42-26 with two Peach Bowl appearances. The Birmingham, Ala., native graduated from Howard College (now Samford) in 1953 and began his coaching career as an assistant coach from 1954-55. He moved on to South Georgia Junior as head Robert Clecker coach between 1956-58, before returning to his alma mater as head coach from 1959-62, posting “BOBBY” BOWDEN a 31-6 record. His first stint at Florida State came in 1963 when he coached the wide receivers. He College Football Hall of Fame came to Morgantown in 1966 as offensive coordinator under Jim Carlen, before becoming the head Inducted: 2006 as a coach coach in 1970. He left Morgantown in 1976 to become the head coach at Florida State and compiled a 316-97-4 record for an overall career mark of 389-129-4. He is the only coach in Division I-A football history to have enjoyed 14-straight 10-win seasons. His FSU teams finished an unprecedented 14-straight seasons in the Top 5 of the Associated Press College Football Poll, won the College Football National Championship in 1993 and 1999 and is 21-8-1 in bowl games. Frank Cignetti, SFrank Cignetti served as the offensive coordinator at West Virginia University under College Football Hall of Fame coach Bobby Bowden from 1970-75, before taking over as the Mountaineers’ head coach for four seasons (1976-79). The winningest head coach in IUP history, Cignetti led the Hawks to unprecedented success during his 20-year tenure from 1986 to 2005. He led the Hawks to conference titles in his first two seasons in 1986 and 1987 and subsequent Division Frank II national title game appearances in 1990 and 1993. Cignetti took IUP to 13 Division II playoffs CIGNETTI, SR. appearances, including six trips to the national semifinals, and he led the Hawks to at least a co-share College Football Hall of Fame of the PSAC Western Division title 14 times. Under his tutelage, IUP ranked in the Top 20 each season Inducted: 2013 as a coach from 1986-2004, achieving undefeated regular seasons in 1991 and 1993. He retired after the 2005 season with an overall record of 199-77-1, finishing as the third-winningest active coach in Division II. His teams received the Lambert Cup 10 times as the top Division II team in the East. He was named the PSAC West Coach of the Year five times and the Kodak College Division Regional Coach of the Year three times en route to earning Chevrolet Division II National Coach of the Year honors in 1991. He coached 11 First Team All-Americans and 124 First Team All-PSAC performers. 2 A three-year starter at quarterback, the dynamic Major Harris became the first player in NCAA history to rush for more than 2,000 yards and pass for more than 5,000 yards in his career. As a freshman, Harris led the Mountaineers to the 1987 Sun Bowl. The following season, the quarterback led West Virginia to an undefeated season and a match-up with Notre Dame for the national championship in Major Claybourne the 1988 Fiesta Bowl. He accounted for 20 touchdowns that season, while earning ECAC Player of the Year honors and finishing fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting. During his junior campaign, Harris threw HARRIS for 17 touchdowns and ran for six, while setting school records for most total offense and quarterback College Football Hall of Fame rushing yards. He was a voted a first-team All-America, named the ECAC Player of the Year and Inducted: 2009 as a player finished third in the Heisman Trophy voting. Drafted by the Los Angeles Raiders in the 1990 NFL Draft, Harris spent several seasons playing in the Canadian Football League, Arena Football League and other semi-pro leagues. In 1999, he was inducted into the WVU Sports Hall of Fame. A name synonymous with West Virginia football, Robert Lee “Sam” Huff ranks among the all-time great NFL linebackers. At West Virginia, Huff was a 6-1, 230-lb. tackle before being drafted in the third round by the New York Giants in 1956. Shortly thereafter, the Farmington, W.Va., native became one of the greatest and most publicized linebackers in pro football history and the first defensive football player to make the cover of Time magazine. CBS produced a half-hour pro football documentary entitled Robert Lee “Sam” “The Violent World of Sam Huff.” A fierce competitor and a great rival of Green Bay Packers linebacker HUFF Ray Nitsche, Huff earned Pro Bowl status five times, first as a Giant, and then as a Washington Pro Football Hall of Fame Redskin, where he finished his career in 1969. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame Inducted: 1982 as a player in 1980 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1982. College Football Hall of Fame Inducted: 1980 as a player A noted player and coach, “Greasy” Neale’s affiliation with West Virginia lasted three years as head football coach from 1931-34. Prior to his stay in Morgantown, Greasy (a nickname he had carried since childhood), was a three-sport standout at West Virginia Wesleyan before embarking on an eight-year major league baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds. While a baseball player, Neale also Alfred Earle “Greasy” found time to play professional football in the fall. Upon his retirement as an athlete, Neale became a college coaching gypsy, guiding some of the nation’s finest football programs before taking the NEALE NFL Philadelphia Eagles coaching job in 1941. Introducing the “naked reverse”, man-to-man shifting Pro Football Hall of Fame defenses, the stutter series and a primitive form of the 4-3 defense during his pro football coaching Inducted: 1969 as a coach tenure, Neale guided the Eagles to the 1949 NFL title. The Parkersburg native was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame College Football Hall of Fame in 1967 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1969. He died November 2, Inducted: 1967 as a coach 1973, in Lake Worth, Fla. The winningest coach in WVU history with a 149-93-4 record, Don Nehlen served as Mountaineer head man from 1980-2000. During his 21 years as head coach in Morgantown, Nehlen guided the Mountaineers to 13 bowl games and two bids for national titles playing Notre Dame in the 1989 Fiesta Bowl and Florida in the 1994 Sugar Bowl. He coached 15 first-team All-Americans, 82 all-conference Donald Eugene “Don” players and 51 players that went on to play professional football. His resume included coaching stints in the Blue-Gray, East-West Shrine and Hula Bowl all-star games, and he served as president of the NEHLEN 10,000-member American Football Coaches Association in 1997. Nehlen, a two-time national coach of College Football Hall of Fame the year in 1988 and 1993, is a member of the Mid-American Conference, Bowling Green, Gator Bowl, Inducted: 2005 as a coach Chick-Fil-A Bowl and WVU Sports Halls of Fame. He also served as head coach of his alma mater, Bowling Green, from 1968-76, posting a 53-35-4 mark. The native of Canton, Ohio, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2005. West Virginia’s preeminent all-around athlete, Ira Errett “Rat” Rodgers gained fame as a hard-charging fullback from 1917-19. Called one of “the finest football players in the land” by syndicated columnist Grantland Rice, Rodgers is unanimously considered West Virginia’s finest pre-World War II football player. A consensus All-American in 1919, Rodgers gained national notoriety after a 25-0 whipping of Princeton, against which he passed for 162 yards and two touchdowns. For the season Rodgers Ira Errett “Rat” accounted for 147 points. Later an amateur state golf champion, the Bethany, W.Va., native remained RODGERS at West Virginia as football (1920-25, 1943-45), baseball (1921-42) and golf coach (1949).