Pittsburgh at Indiana

Saturday, October 6, 1951

Indiana beat Pittsburgh 13–⁠6. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Indiana led the series 7–⁠1.

AwayPittsburgh3–⁠7 in 1951
6
HomeIndiana2–⁠7 in 1951
13

FinalHigh 83°FAttendance 28,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Indiana Defeats Pitt, 1876, on Brilliant Runs BY Ha|fback Gedman

    Evening star, October 7, 1951, page 44

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    Indiana Defeats Pitt, 1876, on Brilliant Runs BY Ha|fback Gedman BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Oct. g. Indiana whipped Pittsburgh’s foot ball team. l3 to 6, today on two Itouchdowns by Halfback Eugene (Pat) Goldman. The Duquesne, pa, lad ran IS yards for one and caught a l6-yard pass from Quarterback Lou D’Achille for the Iother. A crowd of $4,000 fans saw the game under cloudy skies in Memortal Stadium. Smarting from last weeks 48–⁠6 loss to Notre Dame, Indiana roared back today with a fancy offensive combination starring Goldman ID’Achille and Halfback Bobby Robertson. | Pitt. beaten last week by Duke 1914. played heads-up ball and made the most of Hoosier fumbles but didn’t have the scoring punch to win. NV DId”S ITSG DIOOU. | Playing an Indiana squad show ing Is Pennsylyanians on its ros. ter, Pitt started out strong with a second quarter touchdown by Half back Bill Reynolds. Reynolds dashed II yards around end to top off a 58-yard Pitt march. 1t started when a Pitt tackle. Bill Gasparovic, recovered tumble by Goldman or the Pitt 42. | Paul Blanda’s kick for the point was wide. Indiana got right back into thu ball game. however. and was ir control the rest of the way. ! Goldman got off his electrifyine touchdown jaunt shortly aftel he had returned a Pitt punt tt the Indiana IL. S5-Yard Touchdown Run. ! He shot off tackle from thu Indiana Is, stumbled almost u a stop on the 80. accidentally giving his blockers time to gather and then hot-footed down thu sideline for an 85-yard trip ID’Achille’s kick was wide. 1t was Goldman again in the third period-this time on tn receiving end of a fast pass riflec by D’Achille, who had faded bach from the l6 to the Is to get il away into the end zone. D’Achille! kick was good this time. | Indiana went all the way to thu / Pittsburgh one-foot line in tn

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.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Indiana 58% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Indiana leads 7–⁠2 in nine meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1952Pittsburgh 28, Indiana 7
1951Indiana 13, Pittsburgh 6
1949Indiana 48, Pittsburgh 14
1948Pittsburgh 21, Indiana 14
1947Indiana 41, Pittsburgh 6
1946Indiana 20, Pittsburgh 6

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