Notre Dame at Pittsburgh

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 5, 1947, page 42

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  NotreDaneR Rips Pitt, Nabs40 Game PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4.-The Notre Dame gridiron express ran late today, but Engineer Johnny Lujack’s S adroitness generated enough steam to bring the Fighting Irish home on schedule with a 40–⁠6 victory over a surprisingly tough band Of Pitt Panthers. 1t was Notre Danes first start and the 64 1888 shirt -sleeved fans on hand blinked in disbelief as the Panthers made things hotter than the 80-degree temperature for al most a full half. The Irish started off to do the expected by scoring in the first six minutes as Terry Brennan of Mil waukee plunged three yards for a touchdown TO climax a 57-yard march. But@from there on until the last few minutes of the half it strictly was a Pitt show. Irish Get Going. Pitt recovered a tumble with the second quarter half gone and went on to score, Sub Halfback Carl Depasqua running over from yards out. Notre Dame blocked a placement by Halfback Louis Cecconi which would. have given the Panthers a TT tie at that point. Lujack, the brain behind the Notre Dame T, took over from there and turned what might have been an upset into strictly no contest. He fired the first of three touch down passes to Sub End Douglas Waybright in a 10-yard scoring play which climaxed an 80-yard march as the half ended with the Irish leading, 1876. He continued to torment the sturdy Panthers in the second half aided by seemingly limitless Notre Dame manpoWer which combined with the unreasonable heat to wear down the Pitts. Lujack Hits Mark Again. With IL minutes and 40 seconds gone in the third period, Lujack heaved his second touchdown pass to Jim Martin from IS yards out. Lujack mixed passes with running plays beautifully to guide the Irish to first down on the Pitt SO as the fourth period opened. From here, End James Hart was his touchdown target. Coy McGee ran 20 yards for another Irish touchdown. Mike Swistowicz set up the next Irish score by intercepting desperate Pitt aerial on the Panther 80 and racing to the IS. A line play and a penalty left Notre Dame II yards out, but Lancaster Smith tore off that yardage in one bullish rush

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 5, 1947, page 1

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  LUJACK CLICKS g.. FOR IRISH, 4O-6 PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4 Up – The Notre Dame g%ridiron express ran late today but engineer Johnny Lujack’s adroitness generated enough steam to bring the fighting Irish home on schedule with a 40–⁠6 victory over a surprisingly tough band Of Pitt Panthers. 1t was Notre Danes first start and the 64,333 shirtsleeved fans on hand blinked in disbelief as the Panthers made things hotter than the 80-degree tenn perature for almost a full half. The Irish started off to do the expected by scoring in the first six minutes as Terry Brennan of Milwaukee plunged three yards for a touchdown in eli max to a 57-yard march. But from there on until the last few minutes Of the half, it was strictly a Pitt show. Pitt recovered a tumble with the second quarter half gone and went on to score, sub half back Carl DePasqua of Will Transport running over from seven yards out. Notre Dame blocked a place ment by halfback Louis Geo. conf of Donora, Pa, which would have given the Panthers a TT tie at that point. Lujack, the Connellsville, Pa, brain behind the Notre Dame ct” took over from there and turned what might have been an upset into strictly no contest. He fired the first of three touchdown passes to sub end Waybright of Saugus, Mass, in a 10-yard scoring play climaxed an 80-yard march as the half ended with the Irish leading 1876. Dame ....7 6 7 900 Pitt 6 0 o. 6

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 8, 1947, page 3

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  N0TRE DAME POLLS FIRST PLACE AGAIN NEW vC!C.x., Ct. 8.-lR-Notre Dame, overwhelming victor in it’s cnly start to date, was selected by a cross-section of the nations sports writers today as the No. l college football team in the coun- try, a position the Irish also en- joyed at the end Of the l947 sea son, g of them placed coach Frank Leahy’s South Bend crew first on their ballots and “A others ranked it second. Although the writers had only the 40–⁠6 triumph over Pitt on which to tase their appraisal of the l947 Notre Dame team the Irish were listed on l02 of the 103 ballots and was no lower than the sixth slot on any of them. Michigan, Big Nine favorite with two impressive triumphs under its belt, landed the No. ? position in the first of the seasons weekly

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Officially, Notre Dame leads 51–⁠21–⁠1; as played, 52–⁠21–⁠1 in 74 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.