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Before Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, high school football was segregated just like the schools. About 45 colored schools existed in WV. More than 25 Black school football programs existed in West Virginia during segregation. In 1914, WV's Black leaders came together and formed what would become the West Virginia Athletic Union (WVAU ...
1916–1956: Colored School State Champions. Before the historic Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, schools, and football games, were segregated. African-Americans were forced to play in their own league. The West Virginia Athletic Union governed African-American athletics during this time. 1937–1946: Single-class system.
The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission (WVSSAC, but colloquially referred to as SSAC) is the main governing body of high school sports, cheerleading, and marching bands in West Virginia, United States. Beginning with the 2024-25 school year the Commission adopted a new system of four classes.
Dec. 21—Several West Virginia high school sports will move to a four-class system as the WVSSAC board of directors approved the measure Wednesday evening in Parkersburg. Four classifications ...
St Edward's Kyan Mason breaks free from Springfield defenders Tyrone Myers (13) and Teryon Holt (21) to score in the first half of the Division I state championship game, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, in ...
He was photographed with the team by DeLuze Studio in Charleston, West Virginia. [4] A crowd celebrating the state championship was photographed in front of the school. West was the first high school player in West Virginia history to score 900 points in a season. [5] The football team won several state championships. [6]
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The Harrison H. Kennedy Award, often known simply as the Kennedy Award, is a high school sports award named for the late Wheeling, West Virginia native Harry H. Kennedy.It is given annually to the West Virginia High School Football Player of the Year as voted on by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association.