The West Virginia Mountaineers is the name of the athletic teams of the West Virginia University.
The Mountaineers football team played mainly as an Independent between 1891 and 1990. In 1991 they joined the Big East Conference. They have won four Conference Titles so far.
The Mountaineer, who has been part of the cultural landscape in Morgantown and West Virginia for generations is West Virginia’s mascot, making its first appeareance in 1936. |