Duke at Pittsburgh

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  Evening star, October 26, 1941, page 44

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  First Tally of Season Is SoIoce To Pitt, Beaten by Duke, Ut Early in the third period, the Blue Devils drove from their own IS for a touchdown, in Is plays, Siegfried going over from the Pitt half-yard line. Pitts woes were redoubled at this stage when Quarterback Walter West fumbled a nat zone pass and Capt. Bob Barnett, Duke center, recovered on the Panther rs. Left End James Smith, on an end around, raced to the Pitt and on the next play Davis circled left end for a touchdown. On the third play after the following kickoff, Right End Bob CAN’T partly blocked Joe Connell’s punt and Barnett recovered on the Pitt 80. The Blue Devils worked their way to the 6 and on the third play of the fourth quarter Davis passed to Lach for the touchdown. Thoroughly beaten, the Panthers inserted Bill Dutton, whose running sparked . 65-yard drive for the Pantheff score.

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 26, 1941, page 1

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  Painters Score As Duke Romps PITTSBURGH. Oct 2a.-p..lsa. PITTSBURGH. Oct 2a--Duke.s Blue Devils today swamped the Pitt Panthers. 81 TO Z. but the big news here was that the here tofore pointless Panthers made their first tally. the first points scored in four games. In every quarter except the second. the Blue Devils rode wild over the Panthers TO hang up a tally. They scored twice in the third quarter. But in the last quarter the Panthers not only held the North Carolina team TO one touchdown, but finally got started under the impetus of some fast legwork by Weston Bill Dutton. who kad rid den the bench the first three quarters OF the game. BY periods: Duke IL II Pittsburgh = 7

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  Imperial Valley press, California, October 26, 1941, page 1 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL RESULTS Notre Dame 40; Illinois IA. Kansas l3: Iowa State 0. Wisconsin 27; Indiana 25. Purdue 7; Iowa 6. Mich State 80; Wayne 6. Alabama 27; Georgia IA. Northeastern IA; UpSala 7. Mich State 80. Wayne 0. Pitt 7: Duke 27 Yale o. Dartmouth T. Hobart 0; Wash jeff 7. Bowdoin 6; Colby Ia. Penn So; Maryland 6. Holy Cross l3: NYU 0, Cornell 2l: Colgate 3 Michigan 0; Minnesota :. Harvard 0; Navy 0. Army l3; Columbia 0. California Freshman 26; use Freshmen. 0. Wake Forest 13; No. Caro-. 0. Fordham 28, TCU a. Penn State 40; Lehigh 6. Boston College IA; Georgetown s Syracuse 40 Rutgers 7. Bates l3; Maine g. Johns Hopkins 0; HaVerford 38.

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Pittsburgh leads 17–⁠10 in 27 meetings, counting the 21 since this game.