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<blockquote data-quote="Cuyahoga Falls Eers_rivals" data-source="post: 131697372" data-attributes="member: 1759980">Let the numbers do the talking about Spears, #1 coach in WVU history:I'll let the&nbsp; numbers speak for me.Pitt was 8-2 that season under Pop Warner, not too shabby a coach who has national youth football program named for him today.Washington &amp; Lee was 5-3-1, beat North Carolina State and tied WVU, 12-12.Rutgers was 5-4, beat Fordham (a power in those days) and LSU.Cincinnati was 1-7-1 under new coach George McLaren.Indiana was 1-4-2.Virginia was 4-4-1.WVU was the only team that Ohio University played that season. Washington &amp; Jefferson’s undefeated 1921 team, with a 450 student enrollment, and Coached by legendary Greasy Neale, used only 11 players for the entire game and tied California in the only scoreless game in Rose Bowl history, at Tournament Park in Pasadena. The Rose Bowl Stadium housed the Rose Bowl for the first time in 1923. Neale was 16-3-2 in his 2 seasons at W&amp;J, so the team lost only 3 games in 1922.So Coach Clarence “Doc” Spears team beat FIVE teams with winning seasons – despite playing 2 fewer games than WVU did in 1988 -- while Don Nehlen and the 1988 team that played Notre Dame for the national title beat TWO teams with winning seasons. Maybe more than 5 but I couldn't find records for the other opponents. Ohio State, not on the WVU schedule, was 3-4 that year.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cuyahoga Falls Eers_rivals, post: 131697372, member: 1759980"] Let the numbers do the talking about Spears, #1 coach in WVU history: I'll let the numbers speak for me. Pitt was 8-2 that season under Pop Warner, not too shabby a coach who has national youth football program named for him today. Washington & Lee was 5-3-1, beat North Carolina State and tied WVU, 12-12. Rutgers was 5-4, beat Fordham (a power in those days) and LSU. Cincinnati was 1-7-1 under new coach George McLaren. Indiana was 1-4-2. Virginia was 4-4-1. WVU was the only team that Ohio University played that season. Washington & Jefferson’s undefeated 1921 team, with a 450 student enrollment, and Coached by legendary Greasy Neale, used only 11 players for the entire game and tied California in the only scoreless game in Rose Bowl history, at Tournament Park in Pasadena. The Rose Bowl Stadium housed the Rose Bowl for the first time in 1923. Neale was 16-3-2 in his 2 seasons at W&J, so the team lost only 3 games in 1922. So Coach Clarence “Doc” Spears team beat FIVE teams with winning seasons – despite playing 2 fewer games than WVU did in 1988 -- while Don Nehlen and the 1988 team that played Notre Dame for the national title beat TWO teams with winning seasons. Maybe more than 5 but I couldn't find records for the other opponents. Ohio State, not on the WVU schedule, was 3-4 that year. [/QUOTE]

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