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Gene Corum was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at West Virginia University from 1960 to 1965, compiling a record of 29–30–2. Corum played college football as a guard at West Virginia in the 1940s and graduated in 1948. He was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.
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