Team: West Virginia Mountaineers
Stadium: Mountaineer Field
Conference: Big East
Sport: College Football
Background: West Virginia University is an
institute of higher learning based in Morgantown, West Virginia,
with off-site campuses in Parkersburg, Montgomery, Keyser
and Charleston, West Virginia. WVU was founded in 1867 as
a land-grant university with the help of the Morrill Act,
and was originally called the "Agricultural College of
West Virginia." The university gained its current name
in 1868. The Morgantown campus has a Personal rapid transit
system to link its disjointed campus. Enrollment for Fall
semester of 2002 was 23,492. 25 Rhodes Scholars have been
chosen from WVU, including current WVU president David Hardesty.
There are only 6 other public universities with more.
WVU students staged a riot against the National Guard in the
spring of 1970, shortly after the shootings at Kent State.
The school's sports teams are called the Mountaineers and
compete in the Big East Conference, a member of the NCAA's
Division I.