{"id":926758,"date":"2026-06-23T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/926758\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:48:16","slug":"wvu-football-announces-game-for-former-qb-pat-whites-jersey-retirement-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/926758\/","title":{"rendered":"WVU football announces game for former QB Pat White&#8217;s jersey retirement ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MORGANTOWN \u2014 No. 5 will have his jersey retired on the 5th of September. West Virginia athletics announced it will retire legendary quarterback Pat White\u2019s No. 5 jersey on Sept. 5, 2026, at the 2026 football season-opener against Coastal Carolina. White\u2019s number was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominionpost.com\/2026\/06\/05\/wvu-athletics-to-retire-quarterback-pat-whites-no-5\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.dominionpost.com\/2026\/06\/05\/wvu-athletics-to-retire-quarterback-pat-whites-no-5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced to be retired on June 5.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WVU is also giving season ticket holders a commemorative ticket enclosed in an acrylic case, noting the date of his retirement ceremony. All season ticket holders who purchase or complete their purchase prior to Aug. 1 will receive the ticket, and it\u2019ll be shipped directly to their account with no additional charge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White will become the seventh WVU athlete in history to have his number retired, joining Bruce Bosley, Sam Huff, Hot Rod Hundley, Ira Errett Rodgers, Rod Thorn and Jerry West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORGANTOWN \u2014 No. 5 will have his jersey retired on the 5th of September. West Virginia athletics announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,73902,116205,14580,111882],"class_list":["post-926758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-number-retirement","tag-pat-white","tag-wvu-football","tag-wvu-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116800212437678039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}