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Thought I'd post here, something I placed on Wikipedia several years ago, about another victory over WVU.  Though, despite what you might think, I wasn't there, I actually did have some passing acquaintance with a man who was -- Charles G. O'Bleness.  And, I should point out that in those days, TD were only counted as five points, not six points.  Here's the Wikipedia clip: 

The 1897 season, which produced the best record of any of the 19th Century campaigns, started with two straight losses—to Marietta College and Cincinnati. The team then reeled off seven straight with victories over Muskingum College, Dennison College, Ohio Medical University, West Virginia University, Otterbein College, Marietta College, and Ohio Deaf and Dumb Institute. The home 12-0 victory over WVU inspired a poem that appeared in The Athens Messenger and Herald newspaper.

And they came and they were conquer'd
With swift dispatch and ease,
And they felt that twinging sorrow which
In vain they could appease
Thought not that woe awaited them
Across Ohio's stream.
And like the poet found that things
Aren't ever what they seem.

And they came from fair Virginia
The place of Morgantown.
Where swift Monogahela flows
Past mountains looking down:
Proud and boasting came they hither
To wrestle for the goals
Which they found almost as quickly
As disembodied souls.

Badly battered left they homeward
In vain could they conceal
The awful havoc of their bucks
'Gainst O.U.'s pointed steel:
And they left here sad but wiser
Of many manly tricks,
For the gridiron here is hot
As Athens politics.

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