West Virginia at Pittsburgh

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  The daily monitor leader, Mount Clemens, Mich., September 28, 1944, page 1

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  PiH.Men Challenge Noire Dame Might Fighting Irish Moy Hove Fight on Hands PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28-(P, - Those fightin’ Irish from Notre Dame may shake down a lot of thunder from the sky when they meet Pitt here Sat urday, but there will be a coupie of dozen youngsters on the field and another contingent among the anticipated crowd of 10000 that will have to be con- WINGED. Football fever hit the Uni versity of Pittsburgh campus again this week as it hasn’t since the days of Jock Sutherland, “Biggy” Goldberg, etc, back when the Panthers were up al the top of intercollegiate foot. ball. Even that gloomy master of the Information, Clark Shaughmessy, eXuded a bit of conf dence-in left-handed way as his charges went through a hard scrimmage session yesterday. The T-master, although he wouldn’t come out with a vic tory prediction, did say: Il think they’ll give a good account of themselves” He was reerring to the teen age club that last week knocked over West Virginia, 26–⁠13. AL though they came up with a flock of errors that cost them several touchdoWns. -.--..-.-----....-

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, September 24, 1944, page 13 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL SCORES Great Lakes 7. Purdue 18. Pittsburgh 26. West Virginia 13. Denison 20, Ohio Wesleyan g. Worcester p. II, Rensselaer, p. 0. Villanova 13, Scranton Z. Bucknell IA, Muhlenberg 0. Rochester II, Union Z. Miami 13, Oberlin Z. Illinois 26, Indiana Is. Iowa Seahswks 10, Minnesota ID Duke 81, Richmond 7. Coast Guard 40, Tufts Z. Arkansas Z, Missouri 6. Bald.-Wal. ID, Bow. Green 6. Harvard 43, Bates 6. Atlantic City 3, Swarthmore O. Wake Forest Z, n. Carolina 0. Fairfield AAF 0. Cal. Ram. 0. Bunker Hill 33. w. Mich. Z Maryville %, Warrensburg 6. Okla. A. NJ. Al, w. Texas 6. + Warren Z, Colorado 6. Wichita q. Rockhurst O. Texas Ann 80, Bryan AAF 0. Clemson 81, Presbyterian O. Colorado College 81, Washburn o st. Thomas u, st. Olaf o. Washington II, Willamette 0. I’d Air Force rs, Whitman Col O. s. Carolina AZ, Newberry 0. UCLA -, use Is. California 81, St. Mary’s 7.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, September 25, 1944, page 2 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL SCORES !. Following are the final scores of principal football games played over the weekend: Pittsburgh, 26; West Virginia, 13 Great Lakes, 27; Purdue, Is. Illinois, 26, Indiana, Is. Arkansas, T; Missouri, 6. Atlantic City Naval Air Station, }; Swarthmore, o. Bucknell, IA; Muhlenburg, 0. Denison, 40; Ohio Wesleyan, G. Second Air Force, 78; Whitman, 0. Iowa Navy, 19; Minnesota, 13. Oklahoma A & M, 41; West Texas, G. Duke, 6l; Richmond, T. Wake Forest, ‘; North Carolina Michigan, 14; Marquette, 0. Colorado College, CT; Washburn, Texas A & M, 39; Bryan Air field, O. University of Washington, 3l; Willamette, O. UCLA, l3; use, l3; tied. California, 31; St. Mary’s, T. Green Bay Packers, 42; Chicago Bears, 28 Cleveland Rams, 30; Pittsburgh Chicago Combination, 23 Portland Rockets, 39; Oakland Hornets, O. Los Angeles Mustangs, 20; Los Angeles Wildcats, ‘.

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 71 since this game.