West Virginia at Pittsburgh

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  Evening star, October 10, 1943, page 27

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  Pitt, in lis Own Glass, Beats West Virginia By me ASSoClated freSS. PITTSBURGH. Oct. 9. - Clark Shaughnessv’ first Pittsburgh foot ball team demonstrated today that it can click behind the popular T formation in its own class by turning back a scrappy West Virginia eleven, 20 to 0. before a crowd of $4,000. 1t was the Panthers’ first victory OF the season The Panthers. sparked by couple of 17-year-olds in Quarterback Joe Mocha and Tommy Kalmanir, struck for their first touchdown in the Sec ond quarter and then made the triumph convincing one in the last period with two more scores, In addition the Panthers had an other 45-yard touchdown run nullifed in the last period by clipping penalty and we’re threatening again from the Mountaineer IA at the game whistle. Statistics gave Pitt 262 yards run ming, against 126 for West Virginia. First downs were 1871 in Pitts favor.

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  The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., October 10, 1943, page 9

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  Pittsburgh Defeats West Virginia Eleven, 200 PITTSBURGH, Oct. g. Up – Clark Shaughnessy’s first Univer sity of Pittsburgh football team demonstrated today that it car click behind the popular ‘T’ for nation in it’s own class by turning back a scrappy West Virginia Uni versity eleven, 20 to 0, before crowd of 10000.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, October 11, 1943, page 1 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL : SCORES ; The following are scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon: University OF Washington Al, Spokane Air Commandos IL. College of Pacific IL, California 6. Southern California 10, st. Mary’s Preflight 0. March Field At, UCLA Z. Notre Dame 35, Michigan ~. Colgate 0, Penn State 0. West Virginia 0. Pittsburgh 20. Dartmouth 8, Pennsylvania z. Yale 20. Columbia 7. Maryland 10, Richmond Army 6. Temple 0, Army 81. Iowa Preflight rs, Iowa 0. Tufts 8. Brown IS. Illinois IS, Wisconsin 7. Richmond l6, Virginia T. Ohio State 6, Great Lakes 10. Indiana 81, Nebraska 10. Camp Grant 0, Purdue 10. Carnegie Tech 10, Case SO. North Carolina State 0, Camp Davis ~. Kansas State IA, Missouri z. Navy IA, Duke 49, Cornell 80, Princeton O. Georgia Tech IS, Georgia Preflight z. Indiana 81, Nebraska 49, Texas 10, Oklahoma Z. / Tulane 80, Rice 0.

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.

Officially, 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 72 since this game.