The 1924 West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcats football team represented West Virginia Wesleyan College as an independent during the

1924 college football season The 1924 college football season was the year of the Four Horsemen as the Notre Dame team, coached by Knute Rockne, won all of its games, including the Rose Bowl, to be acclaimed as the best team in the nation. Notre Dame and Stanford were bot ...

. In their fourth and final season under head coach Bob Higgins, the Bobcats compiled a 9–2 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 182 to 78. On September 27. West Virginia Wesleyan was defeated by the West Virginia Mountaineers in the first game played at the new

Mountaineer Field Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium is an American football stadium in Morgantown, West Virginia, on the campus of West Virginia University. It opened in 1980 and serves as the home field for the West Virginia Mountaineers football team. T ...

The Bobcats were invited to the

1925 Dixie Classic The 1925 Dixie Classic was the second held out of three in total. It featured the SMU Mustangs and the West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcats. Background SMU had a 19-game unbeaten streak prior to this game, starting with a tie against TCU on December 7 ...

, their first and only

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appearance in program history, where they defeated SMU, 9 to 7.

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