Notre Dame at Pittsburgh

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 11, 1956, page 1

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  sALvATERRA SETS PACE Pitt Hands Notre Dame 5th StroiehtLoss Job PITTSBURGH, Nov. 10 (P- With Quarterback Corny Saliva terra scoring one touchdown and passing for another, Pitts bowl hopeful Panthers crushed Notre Dame, 26–⁠13. today to hand the Irish their fifth straight defeat their worst losing skein. The defeat was the sixth in seven games for the Irish, who are doomed for their poorest rec ord since they began playing football. In 1888, their worst year before this season, they had a 3-5-1 record. Notre Dame scored one touch down on a 50-yard run by Quarterback Paul Hornung in the second quarter and another on an 84-yard kickoff return by Bob Ward in the final period. The first Pitt touchdown came in the second period as Saliva terra climaxed a 72-yard drive by scampering IL yards around right end without a Notre Dame tackler touching him. With only 40 seconds of the first half renaming, the Panthers capped an 87-yard drive when Salvterra hit End Joe Walton on a 10-yard touchdown pass in the end zone. 1t was Walton’s sixth scoring pass of the year and put him within reach of his own Pitt record of eight touchdown passes last season. Late in the third period Pitt started a 91-yard drive which carried over into the fourth period with the ball on the Notre Dame seven. 1t took only two plays before Jim Theodore broke

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