Camp Lee at Pittsburgh

• 

  Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, December 2, 1917, page 27

  Read the text

  CAMP LEE SOLDIERS ARE DEFEATED BY PITTSBURGH City University Eleven Overcomes Stubborn Resistance of National Army Team and Wins, 80 to o. FORWARD PASS OVER GOAL Invaders Lose Only Chance to Score In Opening Quarter, When Receiver OF Throw Fails to Catch Ball-Stars of Contest. tSEecial to The Times-Dispatch.1 PITTSBURGH. PA. December L. The University Of Pittsburgh triumphed over the grid stars OF the Three Hundred and Twentieth Infantry from Camp Lee on Forbes Field this afternoon by a 30-to-0 score. Individual stars in the soldier line , up failed to stop the Pitt tanks. which moved down all opposition Tho re- , suit was forecasted. but the soldiers ] put up a stubborn resistance in the face OF overwhelming odds. Many OF tho Pitt starts, suffering / from injuries received in the Thanks giving Day game with Pennsylvania but Coach Warmers substitutes showed they were equal to the occasion by jumping into the fray and holding the soldiers In check. Johovics and Jones were the bright stars OF the game and. there were many who showed individual worth. but agaist the machine their efforts were unavailing. Captain Marshall several times started rally. but his mates could not gather sufficient strength to push him through. The team lacked CO. ordination Ia it’s attack. while it failed to break up end runs of Pitt. Even at the line. PIT showed supe-ior strength and time after time hammered it’s way through for the nee essary ground. The soldiers lost their only chance to score in the first period. Pitt had kicked off. and. the soldics failing to get In the required distance, were forced TO kick. Stancy kicked to Pitier on Pitts thirty -iive-yard line. Pitier fumbled. Two downs ndvanced the ball couple OF yards and forward pass over the goal line was incomplete. Then the soldiers lost the ball. Pitt worked the ball down the field for Il touchdown. By strange coin cidence. Pitt missed every attempt at u goal in the i’ve tries that were az forded.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Pittsburgh leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.