Rodgers also threw 11 touchdown passes that season, an unheard of feat at the time and a Mountaineer record until 1949. Rodgers scored 19 touchdowns and kicked 33 extra points for WVU in 1919 season, leading the nation with 147 total points. That same Mountaineer team also produced West Virginia's first ever Consensus All-American and potential College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Ira Errett Rodgers. Lueder's Mountaineers produced a 17–13–3 record, while McIntire's teams produced the most success of any Mountaineer team prior to 1921, compiling a 24–11–4 record including an 8–2 finish in 1919. Lueder (1908–11) and Mont McIntire (1916–17, 1919–20), representing the longest coaching tenures during this early period of Mountaineer football. The 1908–20 period produced the four-year head coaching tenures of C.A. WVU produced a 6–3 record in the 1904 season, despite losing to Penn State, Pitt, and Michigan by a combined score of 217–0. The early 1900s brought about early successes for the program, namely during the 19 seasons when WVU posted records of 7–1 and 8–1 respectively. Despite its humble beginning, West Virginia enjoyed a 25–23–3 overall record prior to 1900, which proved to be a fruitful century of Mountaineer football. The West Virginia University football program traces its origin back to Novemwhen its first team fell to Washington & Jefferson 72–0 on a converted cow pasture. The Mountaineers compete in the Big 12 Conference and are led by head coach Neal Brown. The Mountaineers have won or shared a total of 15 conference championships, including eight Southern Conference titles and seven Big East Conference titles. West Virginia plays its home games at Milan Puskar Stadium on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. The West Virginia Mountaineers football team represents West Virginia University (also referred to as " WVU" or " West Virginia") in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of college football.
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