Penn State at Pittsburgh

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  Evening star, November 24, 1946, page 36

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  |pif Saves Grid Face with 14–⁠7 Triumph |0ver Penn State / PITTSBURGH. Nov. 49,. Pitts. |burgh salvaged Its most important game out OF dismal football seasor today as 1t whipped It’s 55-year-olc rival. Penn State, 14–⁠7. 1t was the third triumph in nine starts for Pitt and spoiled whatever hopes the Nittany Lions had OF 3 bowl bid. A crowd close to 500O( saw Penn State beaten the seconc time in eight games. The Panthers struck for their frs, touchdown midway of the seconc period after thwarting Penn State drive on the Pitt 2 and before the period was over they turned back another Nittany Lions bid inside the 5. Interception Of a pass by Louis Cecconi and Bill Bruno started Pitt on its first touchdown drive that carried “a yards. Bill Abraham reeled of II yards and Carl Depasqua to Cecconi pass added 80 to help get to Penn States 4. On third down, Abraham went of tackle standing up and Bill Coury kicked the first Of his two extra points. Starting on their 16 in the third period, Pitt got Is yards with a Bob Lesidbet to Bill McPeak pass Depasqua and Bruno did the remainder Of the heavy work before the quarter ended with the bali on Penn States “a. AS the final session started. Cecconi joined Depasqua in moving the pigskin to the Z from where the former hit Leo Skladany in the end zone with pass. Penn State began rolling midway of the fourth period with Elwood Petchel sparkling a 60-yard drive ended as Bob WeitZel plunged owe, from a foot out. The extra point was added by Ed Czekaj.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 24, 1946, page 1

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  FOOTBALL SHORTS PANTHERs SALVAGE GAME PITTSBURGH, Nov. 23.-R- The University of Pittsburgh Pant hers salyaged their most important game out of a dismal season today as they whipped their SO year old rival, Penn State, by a 14–⁠7 margin.

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, Penn State leads 53–⁠43–⁠4; as played, 52–⁠43–⁠4 in the 99 games on file; the official count covers all 100 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.