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Standout WVU End Paul Bischoff Passes Away
January 12, 2021 12:11 PM | Football
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Paul Bischoff, a former record-setting end for West Virginia University in the early 1950s, died Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Chippewa Township, Pennsylvania.
He was a three-year letterman for the Mountaineers from 1950-52, catching a then-school-record 96 passes for 1,349 yards while playing for legendary coach Art "Pappy" Lewis.
The Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, native caught a career-best 35 passes for 581 yards and three touchdowns as a sophomore in 1950 and added 31 receptions for 402 yards and three scores during his senior year in 1952 when West Virginia won seven games and upset 18th-ranked Pitt 16-0 in Pittsburgh.
Bischoff snared four passes for 53 yards in that game, including a 16-yard touchdown from Fred Wyant in the second quarter to give the Mountaineers a 7-0 lead.
Bischoff earned second team All-Southern Conference honors following his senior season.
Pittsburgh Press sports editor Chester Smith listed Bischoff as one of the four ends on his all-time West Virginia University football team he selected in 1960.
Bischoff was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and was elected student body president while at WVU. He played briefly in the Canadian Football League before returning to his native Beaver Falls to teach and coach at Beaver High and Geneva College. He later served as manager of the Chippewa Township Sanitary Authority.
Bischoff, 90, was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame in 2001, the College of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences Hall of Fame in 2013 and was an inaugural member of the WVU Legends Society in 2016.
He is also a member of the Beaver Falls, Beaver County and Pennsylvania state halls of fame.
He was a three-year letterman for the Mountaineers from 1950-52, catching a then-school-record 96 passes for 1,349 yards while playing for legendary coach Art "Pappy" Lewis.
The Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, native caught a career-best 35 passes for 581 yards and three touchdowns as a sophomore in 1950 and added 31 receptions for 402 yards and three scores during his senior year in 1952 when West Virginia won seven games and upset 18th-ranked Pitt 16-0 in Pittsburgh.
Bischoff snared four passes for 53 yards in that game, including a 16-yard touchdown from Fred Wyant in the second quarter to give the Mountaineers a 7-0 lead.
Bischoff earned second team All-Southern Conference honors following his senior season.
Pittsburgh Press sports editor Chester Smith listed Bischoff as one of the four ends on his all-time West Virginia University football team he selected in 1960.
Bischoff was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and was elected student body president while at WVU. He played briefly in the Canadian Football League before returning to his native Beaver Falls to teach and coach at Beaver High and Geneva College. He later served as manager of the Chippewa Township Sanitary Authority.
Bischoff, 90, was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame in 2001, the College of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences Hall of Fame in 2013 and was an inaugural member of the WVU Legends Society in 2016.
He is also a member of the Beaver Falls, Beaver County and Pennsylvania state halls of fame.
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