Gene Corum

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Gene Corum

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
1961 West Virginia 4-6 2-1 4
1962 West Virginia 8-2 4-0 2
1963 West Virginia 4-6 3-1 2
1964 West Virginia 7-4 5-0 1 Liberty Bowl Utah L, 6-32
1965 West Virginia 6-4 4-0 1
At West Virginia: 29-30-2 18-4-1
Career: 29-30-2
     National Championship          Conference Title
#Rankings from final AP Poll of the season.

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Preceded by
Art Lewis
West Virginia Head Football Coach
19601965
Succeeded by
Jim Carlen