WVU Sports Hall of Fame

Inducted: 2001

Written by Shelly Poe

The late Russ Meredith was a four-year football letterman, playing for WVU during the 1917 and the 1920-22 seasons.

Playing tackle on both offense and defense, he served as team captain in 1922, the same year he was named All-America by the New York World. In the East-West Bowl that year against Gonzaga (WVU’s first-ever bowl game), Meredith returned a fumble 80 yards for a touchdown.

A Fairmont, W.Va., native, Meredith later played with the NFL’s Louisville Brecks and Cleveland Bulldogs and coached at East Fairmont High, Marshall, WVU and Salem.

A member of the W.Va. state legislature during the 1930s, Meredith was the owner of an International Harvester dealership and Meredith Trucking Co. He died in 1989.