1949 West Virginia State Yellow Jackets football team

1949 West Virginia State Yellow Jackets football
ConferenceColored Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record8–0–1 (5–0–1 CIAA)
Head coach
Home stadiumLakin Field
Seasons
← 1948
1950 →
1949 Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Morgan State $ 7 0 0 8 0 0
No. 2 West Virginia State 5 0 1 8 0 1
No. 6 North Carolina A&T 5 1 0 7 2 0
No. 6 Shaw 7 2 0 7 2 0
No. 25 St. Augustine's 5 2 0 6 2 0
No. 21 Virginia State 4 2 1 4 2 1
No. 22 Howard 6 3 0 6 3 0
No. 24 North Carolina College 3 4 0 5 4 0
No. 13 Hampton 3 4 0 5 4 0
Winston-Salem State 1 2 3 3 3 3
Delaware State 3 5 1 3 5 1
Johnson C. Smith 2 3 1 2 4 1
Lincoln (PA) 2 4 0 3 5 0
Bluefield State 1 5 1 2 5 1
Virginia Union 0 7 0 0 8 0
Saint Paul's (VA) 0 8 0 0 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from the Pittsburgh Courier[1]

The 1949 West Virginia State Yellow Jackets football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia State University as a member of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) during the 1949 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Mark Cardwell, the team compiled an 8–0–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 197 to 79.[2] The team ranked No. 3 among the nation's black college football teams according to the Pittsburgh Courier and its Dickinson Rating System.[3] The team played its home games at Lakin Field in Institute, West Virginia.

Key players included quarterback Joe Gilliam, fullback Oliver Ellis, halfbacks Alfred Graves, Charlie Fairfax, and Jack Taylor, ends Clarence "Bump" Clark, Horace Christian, and John Gist, tackle Ed Wickliffe, and kicker Alfred Melchor.

  1. ^ "Southern, West Va. Lose on Final Ballot". The Pittsburgh Courier. December 10, 1949. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "1949 - West Virginia St". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
  3. ^ "Southern, West Va. Lose on Final Ballot". The Pittsburgh Courier. December 10, 1949. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.