The other day, Garrett Ford was walking into the grocery store in the Florida retirement community where he’s now living when a person wearing a West Virginia t-shirt approached him.
“Hey, you’re Garrett Ford! Pitt-West Virginia; 63-48!”
ALL wins over Pitt are memorable, but this particular West Virginia triumph has special meaning to those who were in Morgantown 50 years ago on October 3, 1965 to witness it; or, more likely, listening to Jack Fleming’s enthusiastic descriptions on the radio.
Unlike recent years when West Virginia had the upper hand in the Backyard Brawl, scheduled to resume in 2022, back in the mid-1960s when Ford was playing, getting any win over Pitt was cause for celebration.