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Bouncing back and forth between offense and defense, Rivers was a strong contributor throughout his career, but his ability to return punts was his most notable skill.

The peak of that came with his season when he racked up yards worth of punt returns. That is, of course, the best number in school history and is by far the highest total recorded since the year In fact, Rivers is one of only two players to put up even yards in a season in that time. With elite returners like Tavon Austin not even coming close enough to challenge this record, Vaughn Rivers looks to be at the top of this leaderboard for quite a while.

One of the greatest success stories of the late Mountaineer football assistant coach Donnie Young, Canute Curtis is one of the most dominating pass rushers West Virginia has ever seen. Nicknamed "the Amityville Horror," after his hometown and the famous film, Curtis became an elite talent at chasing down quarterbacks by the end of his career.

In his final season, he made a final mark on the gold and blue record books with 17 sacks, shattering Mike Fox's then-record of The only challenger Curtis has seen since then was Bruce Irvin, who tallied 14 in With the length of time that West Virginia used the stack defense, not many pass rushers were able to rack up a lot of sacks as pressure on the quarterback was not the focus of the scheme.

With Vic Koenning in place as defensive coordinator, that may come to change. However, with the record standing this long, and there being just 12 games in a season, Canute Curtis single-season sacks record is in a position to never be broken.

Ira Errett Rodgers was one of the first great athletes at West Virginia, earning consensus All-American honors in The highlight of that season was his performance against Ohio Wesleyan on November Both throwing and rushing for over yards, it was not his yardage that set records but his point totals.

Playing quarterback and returning kicks, he rushed for four touchdowns and brought a punt back for a fifth. With 30 points coming from his personal scoring and seven more on extra points, he put together a school record of 37 points that still stands today. With the rise of specialized kickers, it does not look likely that this record will ever be broken. It's not often that college teams put up 80 points in a game, but that's what happened in when West Virginia blew out now-Division III Geneva by a score of In that record-setting performance, one of the biggest beneficiaries was kicker Shocky Van Horn.

In his only season on the team, the native of Weston, West Virginia nailed 11 out of 13 extra point attempts, the most in a single game ever for the Mountaineers. Even more interestingly, that game accounted for 11 of Van Horn's career 16 points.

Playing in just five career games, he never kicked a field goal, collecting those solely on extra points. In one of strangest games in West Virginia football history, Shocky Van Horn set one of the strangest records that is not likely to be broken any time soon. WVU Womens Soccer. College Football. WVU Mens Soccer. Mountaineers In The Pros. Mountaineer Events. Between The Eers.

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