On July 1, 2013, then-WVU athletic director Oliver Luck announced that the sport would be reinstated in the 2015–16 school year.

[12] Below are the national team titles that were not bestowed by the NCAA: West Virginia athletes have won 38 individual and relay national championships: The West Virginia Rugby Football Club was established in 1974, and is the oldest established club sport at WVU.

[14] In the fall of 2013, WVU won the Keystone Conference and qualified for the American Collegiate Rugby Championship, where they lost to Kutztown in the quarterfinals.

In the spring of 2014, WVU reached the D1-AA national playoffs, where they defeated Princeton 41–24, but lost in the quarterfinals 34–14 to San Diego.

[19] The Mountaineer was adopted in 1890 as the official school mascot and unofficially began appearing at sporting events in 1936.

The new Mountaineer receives a scholarship, a tailor-made buckskin suit with coonskin hat, and a period rifle and powder horn for discharging when appropriate and safe.

Designed by sports artist John Martin, The "Flying WV" is the most widely used logo in West Virginia athletics.

It debuted in 1980 as a part of a football uniform redesign by Coach Don Nehlen, and was adopted as the official logo for the university in 1983.

was composed by WVU alumni Earl Miller and Ed McWhorther in 1915 with lyrics by Fred B. Deem.

The Mountaineer mascot carries a period Musket and powder horn for firing a shot to signal the opening of several athletic events.

The Mountaineer points the gun into the air with one arm and fires a blank shot, a signal to the crowd to begin cheering at home football and basketball games.

The outline of the state moves down the field during the playing of "Hail West Virginia", and the shape inverts to face the student side of the stadium when the crowd begins the "Let's Go...Mountaineers" chant.

After the announcer at Milan Puskar Stadium says, "First down, West Virginia," the fans lower and raise their arms three times while simultaneously yelling the initials "WVU".

In 1955, Fred Schaus and Alex Mumford devised the idea of rolling out an elaborate gold and blue carpet for Mountaineer basketball players to use when taking the court for pre-game warm-ups.

[28] In a letter to WVU, then UConn head football coach Randy Edsall wrote: "The response that you gave our team before and after the game was tremendous and greatly appreciated.

"[29] Some WVU fans, primarily in the student sections, have developed a reputation for unruly behavior, being compared to "soccer hooligans" by GQ magazine.

[30] The tradition of igniting furniture continues to this day, including the celebration after the WVU basketball team won the Big East title.

Fires have sometimes occurred in response to non-sporting events, such as following the announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed.