WVU Football Trivia Names, places & events of Mountaineer Football
Who holds the school record for the longest field goal in WVU history, and what was the distance?
WOOOOODY! WOOOOODY! WOOOOODY!
On September 8, 1984, the Mountaineers thumped the Louisville Cardinals 30-6, and three of those points came on a 55-yard field goal by senior kicker Paul Woodside, a 1983 first team All-American from Falls Church, VA, who was rumored to be nearly legally blind. The kick remains to this day the longest WVU field goal in school history.
The single game attendance record at Mountaineer Field was set on what date and against which opponent?
On November 23, 1993 Mountaineer Field was packed full with the largest crowd of screaming (and a little cold) WVU fans ever
to watch a game there. When the Mountaineers defeated the Miami Hurricanes 17-14 enroute to a Big East Championship and
undefeated regular season, 70,222 fans were there to watch history in the making. Watch the clip below of Robert
Walker's 19 yard touchdown run that would be the game winner in one of the biggest wins in WVU football
history.
This sportscaster was an original anchorman on ESPN's Sportscenter, and he also did play-by-play and color commentary on the Mountaineer Sports Network's TV broadcasts of WVU football games in the mid 1980's. Who was he?
The late Tom Mees was an original anchorman on ESPN's Sportscenter when the network first aired in 1979. By the mid 1980's, Mees, through a working relationship with MSN's Mike Parsons, moonlighted by doing play-by-play and color commentary on Mountaineer Sports Network football broadcasts. But the workload on Mees became too great when ESPN was in the midst of its big expansion in the late 1980s, and he left the MSN broadcasts after the 1987 season. Mees tragically died in the summer of 1996 in a swimming pool accident at his home in Southington, Conn. Tony Caridi, now MSN’s radio play by play man, got his start in the business working in the broadcast booth with Mees.
The late Tom Mees was an original anchorman on ESPN's Sportscenter when the network first aired in 1979. By the mid 1980's, Mees, through a working relationship with MSN's Mike Parsons, moonlighted by doing play-by-play and color commentary on Mountaineer Sports Network football broadcasts. But the workload on Mees became too great when ESPN was in the midst of its big expansion in the late 1980s, and he left the MSN broadcasts after the 1987 season. Mees tragically died in the summer of 1996 in a swimming pool accident at his home in Southington, Conn. Tony Caridi, now MSN’s radio play by play man, got his start in the business working in the broadcast booth with Mees.
