Pittsburgh at Washington

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  The Daily Alaska empire, October 2, 1939, page 5

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  U. WASHINGTON BEATEN BADLY BY PITTSBURGH Partners 0ut-Maneuver Dazzle and 0ufplay Husky Eleven SEATTLE, Oct. 3. = Pittsburghs Partners, who travelled 2,600 miles to Seattle by plane, took to the air last Saturday afternoon, complet- ing l2 of IS passes for an easy 27 to victory over the University of Washington Huskies in an intersec- tional football opener before crowd of 25,000. Coach Phelan said Chuck Bechtol, regular Husky quarterback, broke his left arm below the elbow in the first half but played for a while with his injury before leaving the game. The Huskies were out-maneuver- ed, dazzled and thoroughly out played by the eastern squad.

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  The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 2, 1939, page 1

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  FOOTBALL SCORES New York University 7-Col- gate 6 Thurman Army Is Purdue 0-.Notre Dame 3 Pittsburg 27-Washington 6 Oregon State 12-Standard 0 Montant State 6-Standard 0 Oregon 7-Southern California ‘.

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 4–⁠1 in five meetings, counting the three since this game.