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| Gene Corum |
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| Title |
Head coach |
| Sport |
Football |
| Career highlights |
| Overall |
29–30–2 |
| Bowls |
0-1 |
| Championships |
| Southern Conference (1964, 1965) |
| Awards |
| West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame (1984) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) |
| 1960-1965 |
West Virginia |
Gene Corum (born May 29, 1921) was the head football coach for West Virginia University from 1960 to 1965. His record there was 29-30-2. Despite going 0-8-2 in his first season, he went 8-2 in 1962.
Corum was a lineman for the West Virginia Mountaineers in the 1940s, graduating in 1948. He was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.
[edit] Coaching record
| Year |
Team |
Overall |
Conference |
Standing |
Bowl Game |
Bowl Opponent |
Outcome |
Rank#
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| West Virginia (Southern) (1960 — 1965) |
| 1960 |
West Virginia |
0-8-2 |
0-2-1 |
9 |
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| 1961 |
West Virginia |
4-6 |
2-1 |
4 |
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| 1962 |
West Virginia |
8-2 |
4-0 |
2 |
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| 1963 |
West Virginia |
4-6 |
3-1 |
2 |
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| 1964 |
West Virginia |
7-4 |
5-0 |
1 |
Liberty Bowl |
Utah |
L, 6-32 |
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| 1965 |
West Virginia |
6-4 |
4-0 |
1 |
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| At West Virginia: |
29-30-2 |
18-4-1 |
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| Career: |
29-30-2 |
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| National Championship Conference Title |
| #Rankings from final AP Poll of the season. |
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