WVU / GSU PlayerTriva

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You give me WVU retired # & I'll give you GSUs. Who are the players GSU will have to deal with this year in the WVU "Coon Bowl"?


#8 Tracy Ham (QB) was such an important part of the Georgia Southern team that the offense was known as the Ham-Bone I. A host of major schools wanted Ham as a defensive back when he came out of high school. But Tracy opted for Georgia Southern where he could play quarterback and was a four-year starter for the Eagles. Ham was equally adept at either running or passing. When his career ended he was the only collegiate player to have ever run for 3,000 yards and passed for 5,000 yards. The Georgia Southern program was just in its second year in his freshman season, but he helped the Eagles to un-surpassed growth as they won back-to-back national championships in Ham�s junior and senior years. In the 1985 national title game he rallied the Eagles back from a 22-point deficit in the third quarter to beat Furman 44-42. That game he had 509 yards of total offense, completing five touchdown passes with the game-winner coming with 10 seconds left to play. After his GSU playing days he had his #8


#3 Adrian Peterson.: (FB) Stats


YEAR 1998 - 1932 total yards -7.5 yards per carry - 176 yards per game
1999 - - - - - - 1807 T.Y.. - 7.3 YPC - 164 YPG
2000 -------- - 2056 T.Y. - 6.1 YPC - 158 YPG
2001 --------- - 1795 T.Y. - 6.6 YPC - 130 YPG
Peterson never had a game under 100 yards. Against FBS Georgia & the OSU Beavers he ran over 150 yards in both games. e man had an eye for the field, raw power & BALANCE!

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Only 2 have been retired for football, Sam Huff and Ira Errett Rodgers. Rundowns on both below...

Robert Lee "Sam" Huff is one of the most well-known and recognized athletes to ever play at WVU.

Huff was born in Edna Gas and grew up in the coal mining camps in Farmington, W.Va., about 30 miles south of Morgantown. Huff's father, uncles and brothers all worked in the coal mines and he wanted a different life so he took up football, playing well enough at Farmington High to earn a scholarship to West Virginia University.

Huff was a four-year letterwinner and three-year starter at guard and tackle for Coach Art "Pappy" Lewis, teaming with Bruce Bosley and Gene "Beef" Lamone to give West Virginia one of college football's most formidable lines in the mid-1950s. A tough and intimidating player, Huff was also agile enough as a blocker to pave the way for backs Joe Marconi, Tommy Allman, Bobby Moss and Fred Wyant.

He helped lead WVU to a combined four-year mark of 31-7 and a berth in the 1954 Sugar Bowl. The Mountaineers were also able to defeat Penn State three years in a row while Huff wore the Gold and Blue.

For his accomplishments, the 1955 co-captain was named first team All-America by the NEA Service, Look Magazine, Jet Magazine and NBC-TV, while earning third-team All-America honors from UPI. Huff was also an oustanding student, earning first team Academic All-America honors.

After being selected to play in the North-South Game, the Senior Bowl and the College Football All-Star Game played in Chicago, Huff was drafted in the third round by the New York Giants. Huff soon became a star in New York in Tom Landry's innovative 4-3 defensive scheme that featured Huff at middle linebacker.

He earned four all-pro berths in eight seasons (Huff was the voted the game's MVP in 1961) with the Giants and developed a great personal rivalry with linbacker Ray Nitschke of the Green Bay Packers and Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns. Huff was known as one of the few defender who could tackle Brown one-on-one in the open field.

Huff's Giants played in back-to-back NFL championship games in 1958 and 1959, losing both times to the Colts. The '58 game played in sudden death overtime was considered one of the defining moments in NFL history and set the league down the path toward becoming the most popular and lucrative sport in America.

Huff was the first NFL player to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine, and was also the subject of a CBS network TV show entitled "The Violent World of Sam Huff" narrated by Walter Cronkrite.

The Giants played for the NFL titles in 1961, 1962 and 1963 but lost all three. In 1964, Huff was traded to the Washington Redskins (Huff despised Giants coach Allie Sherman for making the trade) where he played four more seasons and making one pro bowl appearance. He came out of retirement in 1969 to serve as player/coach for Vince Lombardi to complete his 12-year NFL career with one NFL championship ring and five division titles.

When the Giants faced the Redskins in 1966, Huff had the satisfaction of beating his former team 72-41. Near the end of the game Huff could be seen imploring his offensive teammates to pour it on and score even more points.

After retiring, Huff began a career as a radio broadcaster for the Washington Redskins Radio Network. He also worked regionally syndicated television games for Mountaineer football in the mid-1980s.

In 1971, a year after his unsuccessful run for the U.S. House of Representatives, Huff joined the Marriott Corporation as a salesman where he worked his way up to vice president before retiring in 1998.

In 1982, Huff became just the second WVU player to be inducted into both the college and pro football halls of fame and later in 1999, he was inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame.

Huff was ranked number 76 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players. Two years later, he was ranked number six on Sports Illustrated's list of West Virginia's 50 Greatest Athletes. On Nov. 24, 2005, before West Virginia's game against Pitt, Huff's uniform number 75 was retired by West Virginia University - joining Rat Rdogers' number 21 as the first two uniform numbers to ever be retired.



Considered one of the greatest college football players prior to World War II, Ira Errett Rodgers also is recognized by many as the school's greatest all-around athlete of the first half century.

Born and raised in Bethany, W.Va., Rodgers played football as a high school student at Bethany College - there were no high schools in the area for him to attend. By the time he concluded his career at Bethany, numerous colleges tried to recruit him.

A hard-driving fullback, Rodgers was piling up awards faster than he could score touchdowns. West Virginia's first 200-yard rusher, Rodgers set then-school records for the most touchdowns in a game (5), season (19) and career (42). The versatile Rodgers also threw 24 touchdown passes as well.

In 1919, Rodgers amassed the single-greatest season of any player in school history. Rodgers led the nation in scoring with 147 points on 19 touchdowns and 33 extra-point kicks. He also threw 11 touchdown passes - a rare high for that era and a WVU record until 1949.

For his exploits, Rodgers was WVU's first consensus All-America selection.

Elected captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams as a senior, Rodgers moved on to coach the Mountaineers in football, baseball and golf. He compiled a 41-31-8 mark as a football coach and a 204-208-3 mark as a baseball coach.

A 1920 graduate with a degree in chemistry, Rodgers was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1953. He died February 22, 1963.

 

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Only 2 have been retired for football, Sam Huff and Ira Errett Rodgers. Rundowns on both below...

Robert Lee "Sam" Huff is one of the most well-known and recognized athletes to ever play at WVU.

Huff was born in Edna Gas and grew up in the coal mining camps in Farmington, W.Va., about 30 miles south of Morgantown. Huff's father, uncles and brothers all worked in the coal mines and he wanted a different life so he took up football, playing well enough at Farmington High to earn a scholarship to West Virginia University.

Huff was a four-year letterwinner and three-year starter at guard and tackle for Coach Art "Pappy" Lewis, teaming with Bruce Bosley and Gene "Beef" Lamone to give West Virginia one of college football's most formidable lines in the mid-1950s. A tough and intimidating player, Huff was also agile enough as a blocker to pave the way for backs Joe Marconi, Tommy Allman, Bobby Moss and Fred Wyant.

He helped lead WVU to a combined four-year mark of 31-7 and a berth in the 1954 Sugar Bowl. The Mountaineers were also able to defeat Penn State three years in a row while Huff wore the Gold and Blue.

For his accomplishments, the 1955 co-captain was named first team All-America by the NEA Service, Look Magazine, Jet Magazine and NBC-TV, while earning third-team All-America honors from UPI. Huff was also an oustanding student, earning first team Academic All-America honors.

After being selected to play in the North-South Game, the Senior Bowl and the College Football All-Star Game played in Chicago, Huff was drafted in the third round by the New York Giants. Huff soon became a star in New York in Tom Landry's innovative 4-3 defensive scheme that featured Huff at middle linebacker.

He earned four all-pro berths in eight seasons (Huff was the voted the game's MVP in 1961) with the Giants and developed a great personal rivalry with linbacker Ray Nitschke of the Green Bay Packers and Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns. Huff was known as one of the few defender who could tackle Brown one-on-one in the open field.

Huff's Giants played in back-to-back NFL championship games in 1958 and 1959, losing both times to the Colts. The '58 game played in sudden death overtime was considered one of the defining moments in NFL history and set the league down the path toward becoming the most popular and lucrative sport in America.

Huff was the first NFL player to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine, and was also the subject of a CBS network TV show entitled "The Violent World of Sam Huff" narrated by Walter Cronkrite.

The Giants played for the NFL titles in 1961, 1962 and 1963 but lost all three. In 1964, Huff was traded to the Washington Redskins (Huff despised Giants coach Allie Sherman for making the trade) where he played four more seasons and making one pro bowl appearance. He came out of retirement in 1969 to serve as player/coach for Vince Lombardi to complete his 12-year NFL career with one NFL championship ring and five division titles.

When the Giants faced the Redskins in 1966, Huff had the satisfaction of beating his former team 72-41. Near the end of the game Huff could be seen imploring his offensive teammates to pour it on and score even more points.

After retiring, Huff began a career as a radio broadcaster for the Washington Redskins Radio Network. He also worked regionally syndicated television games for Mountaineer football in the mid-1980s.

In 1971, a year after his unsuccessful run for the U.S. House of Representatives, Huff joined the Marriott Corporation as a salesman where he worked his way up to vice president before retiring in 1998.

In 1982, Huff became just the second WVU player to be inducted into both the college and pro football halls of fame and later in 1999, he was inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame.

Huff was ranked number 76 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players. Two years later, he was ranked number six on Sports Illustrated's list of West Virginia's 50 Greatest Athletes. On Nov. 24, 2005, before West Virginia's game against Pitt, Huff's uniform number 75 was retired by West Virginia University - joining Rat Rdogers' number 21 as the first two uniform numbers to ever be retired.



Considered one of the greatest college football players prior to World War II, Ira Errett Rodgers also is recognized by many as the school's greatest all-around athlete of the first half century.

Born and raised in Bethany, W.Va., Rodgers played football as a high school student at Bethany College - there were no high schools in the area for him to attend. By the time he concluded his career at Bethany, numerous colleges tried to recruit him.

A hard-driving fullback, Rodgers was piling up awards faster than he could score touchdowns. West Virginia's first 200-yard rusher, Rodgers set then-school records for the most touchdowns in a game (5), season (19) and career (42). The versatile Rodgers also threw 24 touchdown passes as well.

In 1919, Rodgers amassed the single-greatest season of any player in school history. Rodgers led the nation in scoring with 147 points on 19 touchdowns and 33 extra-point kicks. He also threw 11 touchdown passes - a rare high for that era and a WVU record until 1949.

For his exploits, Rodgers was WVU's first consensus All-America selection.

Elected captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams as a senior, Rodgers moved on to coach the Mountaineers in football, baseball and golf. He compiled a 41-31-8 mark as a football coach and a 204-208-3 mark as a baseball coach.

A 1920 graduate with a degree in chemistry, Rodgers was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1953. He died February 22, 1963.

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GSU QB and Backs you will face this year -
Our top 5

Breda - 1500 yards at 8.7 a carry
(QB) Eleson - 1100 yards at 6.4 ypc
Power Back -Ramsby - 700 yards 4.7 ypc
Upshaw - 9.6 ypc
Days - 9.2 ypc

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