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IDNO:: 017880
Title:: WVU Basketball Players Clyde Green, Captain Leland Byrd, Fred Schaus, and Bill Zickel, West Virginia University
Date:: ca. 1947- 1948

IDNO:: 017881
Title:: WVU Basketball Players Tom Leverte, Jimmy Walthall, Eddie Beach, and Bobby Carroll, West Virginia University
Date:: ca. 1947- 1948

IDNO:: 017882
Title:: WVU Basketball Coach Lee Patton
Description:: The late Lee Patton was an outstanding WVU basketball coach from 1946-50. A Carbon, Texas, native, Patton led the Mountaineers to a 91-26 overall record during his tenure for a .778 winning percentage, still the second best in school history. Patton led West Virginia to two straight NIT berths in 1946 and 1947. Under his direction, WVU posted a school-record 57-game home winning streak that ended in the final home game of the 1949 season against Pitt.

IDNO:: 017883
Title:: WVU Basketball Player Leland Byrd
Date:: ca. 1945- 1946
Description:: Portrait of All American Leland 'Lefty' Byrd, member of the West Virginia University Basketball Team.

IDNO:: 017884
Title:: WVU Basketball Player Maurice Robinson, West Virginia University
Date:: ca. 1975-1976
Description:: Autographed photograph of Maurice 'Mo' Robinson, a member of the West Virginia University Basketball Team.

IDNO:: 017885
Title:: WVU Basketball Player Russell Chapman, West Virginia University
Date:: ca. 1975-1976
Description:: Portrait of Russell Chapman, a forward of the West Virginia University Basketball Team.

IDNO:: 017886
Title:: WVU Basketball Player Ernie Hall
Date:: ca. 1975-1976
Description:: Autographed photograph of Ernie Hall, guard of the West Virginia University Basketball Team.

IDNO:: 017906
Title:: WVU Basketball Team Plays its Last Game in Mountaineer Fieldhouse vs. Pitt
Date:: 1970/03/03
Description:: 'Pitt 92, West Virginia 87; March 3, 1970; The final game in historic Mountaineer Field House found West Virginia losing to Pitt, 92-87, but finishing a 42 year span with an overall record of 347-77 in the Beechurst Avenue barn. Two stars who played in the Field House when it first opened in 1928 were honored at halftime--Dr. Marshall (Little Sleepy) Glenn, former West Virginia athlete and coach, and Charley Hyatt, then All-American basketball star at Pitt. Athletic Director Robert N. (Red) Brown presented plaques to Hyatt, Glenn, T. Edward Davis (who coached Salem College in the first Field House game in 1928), and Mickey Furfari who accepted Walter L. (Bill) Hart, columnist and former editor and sports editor of the Morgantown Dominion News. A speech by Brown on Field House highlights was the feature of the special halftime ceremony.'