Sports
Baseball
Basketball
Football
Miscellaneous
Prize Fighting
Track and Field
Baseball
Life of baseball hall of famer Jesse "The Crab"
Burkett (Time Trail)
"Cincinnati Reds Will Draw Large Crowd On
Monday"
"Cincinnati Reds And McDowell County All Stars Will Play
Here Monday"
"Cincinnati Reds Ann [sic] McDowell County All Stars Will
Play
Again Tomorrow"
"Cincinnati Reds Hand The All Stars A Twenty To Eight
Defeat
In Return Game"
"Welch Fans Send Wreath On Hearing Of Death Of Jake
Daubert; Telegram Also Sent; Reds Leave On No. 15 Today"
Advertisement for Game Between Cincinnati Reds and the
McDowell
County All-Stars
Basketball
Birth of legendary basketball coach & author Clair
Bee (Time Trail)
WV State College wins the national black basketball
tournament (Time Trail)
Elgin Baylor Boycotts Basketball Game in
Charleston (Time Trail)
"Segregation Ruling Ires Pro Player"
"Warming Up"
"Baylor's Refusal to Play Here Brings ABC
Protest"
WVU Press Release on Jerry West, February 23,
1960
"Sunday Beat" (Jerry West)
"Jerry West Leads East Bank To Cage Title"
"East Bank Is Changed To 'West Bank' for Day As Pioneer
Fans
Cheer"
"California Defeats WVU 71 to 70 for NCAA Title"
Sources on Jerry West
"Burnsville Boy Gets 135 Points In 173-43 Win"
"One Boy Scores 135 As Mates Feed Star"
"Plan For Heater Worked"
"Georgeann's Slam Punctuates Victory"
"Wells Encores With School Scoring
Mark"
"First Slam Dunk by a Female was in
Elkins"
Football
Beginning of West Virginia University football (Time Trail)
"Tragedy Marks Game of College Elevens"
Wheeling Register illustration of Munk being
tackled by death
"W. V. U. Captures the State Championship"
"The Varsity Captain Killed in the Championship
Game"
"Accidental Death Verdict in the Case of Captain
Munk"
"Who Is Guilty of Rudolph Munk's Death?"
Bethany College 1910 football team
Birth of WVU football standout and coach Ira "Rat"
Rodgers (Time Trail)
Miscellaneous
"Racing Meet At Charles Town Opens Saturday"
(Opening of the Charles Town Racetrack)
"Horse Racing Begins" (Opening of the Charles
Town Racetrack)
"Petty Laps Allison To Win West Virginia 500"
Phil Pfister, World's Strongest Man 2006: Commemorative Envelope Unveiling
Prize Fighting
1873 Prize Fight at Collier's Station
"Knights of the Sward: The Mill Between Goss and
Ryan"
"Brutal Bruisers: The Goss-Ryan Prize Fight"
"The Goss-Ryan Mill"
"The Prize Fight Results in the Death of Felix Carr"
"The Court Hears Evidence in the Habeas Corpus Case"
(Prize
Fight Fatality)
West Virginia Code Regarding Prize Fighting,
1899
Track and Field
National Track and Field Hall of Fame in
Charleston
"McManus, Mrs. Moore Greet 'Hall' Marchers" (National
Track and Field Hall of Fame)
"Ground Broken For Track 'Hall'"
"'Hall' Ceremonies Beautiful, Except to the Cows" (National
Track
and Field Hall of Fame
"Track Shrine's Founder Criticizes Jay, Gazette"
"Barnes Shatters '57 Discus Mark" (Randy
Barnes)
"Randy Returns With Gold" (Randy Barnes)
"Barnes Wins Gold Medal on Last Throw" (Randy
Barnes)
"Barnes In Daze After Winning Gold" (Randy
Barnes)
"The Other Big Throw" (Randy Barnes)
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