Hillside Fields: A History of Sports in West Virginia

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction xiii 1. Baseball Comes to West Virginia: A History of Minor League Baseball in the Mountain State 1 2. Oakhurst Links: From the First Golf Club in America to the Greenbrier Classic 25 3. The Beginning of Football in West Virginia: The First Three Decades, 1891–1919 53 4. Davis & Elkins Beats Navy: The Rise of College Football in the 1920s 77 5. West Virginia’s “Separate but Equal Basketball Tournament” 97 6. West Virginia University and Marshall College: National College Basketball Champions 119 7. West Virginia State College: National Champions 143 8. The 1950s: The Golden Age of West Virginia University Athletics 171 9. No Field of Dreams—Not Even a Field: West Liberty’s Golden Baseball Season 205 10. West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Basketball: 1935–2013 227 Contents viii 11. The Girls’ Turn To Play: From the First State Basketball Tournament in 1919 Through Title IX and Beyond 255 12. Ashes to Glory: Marshall Football from 1960 to We Are Marshall 285 13. A Major Leads His Army: West Virginia University Football, 1960 through the Don Nehlen Years 317 14. A History of High School Sports in West Virginia 343 Epilogue: Sports in West Virginia, 2011 376 Notes 381 Bibliography 406 Index 418 About the Author 429 Contents continued ...