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The West Virginia High School Football State Championships have been held since the early 1900s. The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission (WVSSAC) began its formal recognition of WV State Football Championships in 1937 [1] with the state's sports writers' vote. The WVSSAC began a class system, dividing larger and smaller schools ...
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 oldest of the rating systems, the National Sports News Service, was begun by Arthur H. "Art" Johlfs—who originally started naming champions informally in 1927 as a 21 year old high school coach and official, [2] but did so more formally starting in 1959 [3] after enlarging his network of supporting hobbyists [2] to receive reports from six separate areas of the country. [4]
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 ...
The MIAA released another tournament high school power rankings on Tuesday.
This is a list of high schools in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Locations are the communities in which they are located, with postal location in parentheses if different. Barbour County
Mater Dei, St. John Bosco and Corona Centennial are Nos. 1-3 for the Los Angeles Times' top 25 high school football rankings.
School City Conference Sport sponsorship Foot-ball Basketball Base-ball Soft-ball Soccer M W M W Marshall Thundering Herd: Marshall University: Huntington: Sun Belt: FBS: West Virginia Mountaineers: West Virginia University: Morgantown: Big 12: FBS [a