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WVU Football Trivia
Names, places & events of Mountaineer Football
This former Mountaineer quarterback is the only scholarship athlete to be selected as a Rhodes Scholar from West Virginia University.
Who is he?
As the state's best high school football player in 1972 and 1973, Belle's Danny Williams became the first player in West Virginia prep history to win the Kennedy Award twice. At WVU, the DuPont High School graduate saw varsity action at quarterback, but he eventually lost out to Dan Kendra as the Mountaineers' starting signal caller. Williams' calling, however, would come from off the football field. Daniel Walter Williams III was a chemistry major planning on attending medical school when he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study abroad. After earning his BA degree from WVU in 1978, Williams spent two years at Queen's College in Oxford. In 1984, he earned his medical degree from the University of North Carolina and spent a year as a faculty member at UNC. He then accepted a fellowship to study neuroradiology at Wake Forest University, where he became a professor of radiology.
West Virginia University has produced 25 Rhodes Scholars throughout its history, and quarterback Danny Williams is the only one who came to Morgantown on an athletic scholarship.
This former Mountaineer is the only player in the history of college football to wear a jersey numbered 100. Who is he?
To commemorate the state of West Virginia's 100th birthday in 1963, St. Albans' Chuck Kinder, a punter and place kicker for the Mountaineers, became the first and only player in the history of college football to wear the jersey number '100'. Kinder lettered on coach Gene Corum's Mountaineer football teams in 1963 and 1965 and again in 1966 with new coach Jim Carlen. At Carlen's request, Kinder changed his number to '10' for the 1966 season. After college Kinder served in the United States Army, retiring with the rank of Lt. Colonel. In December of 2006, Charles "Chuck" Kinder retired once again, this time as Training Director in the West Virginia State Auditor's Office.
Who was the first WVU player to be named a consensus All-American and return to play for the Mountaineers the following year?
Named a consensus All-American in 2006 as a sophomore, superback Steve Slaton became the first Mountaineer to return for the following season after winning the award.
West Virginia has had 11 football players named as consensus All-Americans, and each one of the other 10 received the honor in his senior year.
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