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The 1891 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1891 college football season. Led by Frederick Lincoln Emory in his first and only year as the Mountaineers’ head coach this was the first West Virginia Mountaineers football team. They lost the only game they played Washington & Jefferson 0–72 at the Show Lot in Morgantown West Virginia.