Pittsburgh at West Virginia
Saturday, October 2, 1937 Share
Pittsburgh beat West Virginia 20–0. It was their 33rd meeting; after it, Pittsburgh led the series 22–3–1 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 80°F, low 40°FAttendance 18,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 3, 1937, page 1 (results column)
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Nebraska’s thrilling l4–9 VIC tory over Minnesota featured a sensation-studded sports world yesterday, which found Maryland the only loser among local COL leges, the Terps dropping bit terly fought 1921 game to Penn sylvania. Hal Price Headley’s Menow established world record in winning the forty-eighth run ming of the rich Belmont Futurity for 2-year-olds at Belmont Park, covering the 6h furlongs in 1:151s to clip Us seconds of the mark made by Pompoon last year. In the local foot ball realm. Catholic University defeated Loyola OF the South, 40; Georgetown swamped Shenandoah, $50, and American Uni versity trounced Bridgewater Col lege, 1870. Other leading scores: Washington, Z; Southern Cali fornia, 0. oregon, 7; Stanford. 6. Texas Christian, T. Arkansas, 7. Ohio State, 13; Purdue, 0. Princeton, %; Virginia, 0. Army, 81; Clemson, 6. Texas A. and NJ, a.. Manhattan, 7 Navy, 80; Citadel, 0. Pittsburgh, 20; West Virginia, 0. Cornell, 40; Colgate, 7. Other sports news will be found On Pages B-8 to Is.

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 4, 1937, page 4 (results column)
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SCORES OF GRID GAMES The following are final scores O principal football games played las Saturday afternoon: Oregon State 6; California 24 Washington T: Southern Califor. mia O. Stanford 6; Oregon T. Idaho 0: Washington State 13. Texas IA; Manhattan ‘. Pittsburgh 20; West Virginia 0. Yale p; Maine 0. Georgia 13 South Carolina T. Michigan State 19; Michigan A. Northwestern 33; Iowa State 0. Illinois o; DePaul 0, tie. Colorado IA; Missouri State 6. Minnesota g; Nebraska IA. Springfield 0; Harvard 54 Amherst T; Dartmouth 31. Purdue o; Ohio State 13. Maryland 21; Pennsylvania 28. Drake 0; Notre Dame 21 Virginia O; Princeton r3. Colgate ‘; Cornell 20 SUNDAY GAME Gonzaga 0; St Mary’s O. tie.
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.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Pittsburgh 70% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Pittsburgh–West Virginia gameOfficially, Pittsburgh leads 63–42–3; as played, 61–37–3 in the 101 games on file; the official count covers all 108 meetings, counting the 75 since this game.
Around this game
Pittsburgh
- Next gamevs. DuquesneOct. 9, 1937
- SeasonPittsburgh in 1937
- ProgramPittsburgh history and records
West Virginia
- Next gamevs. Washington and LeeOct. 9, 1937
- SeasonWest Virginia in 1937
- ProgramWest Virginia history and records

