Pittsburgh at West Virginia

Saturday, October 19, 1963

No. 3 Pittsburgh beat West Virginia 13–⁠10. It was their 56th meeting; after it, Pittsburgh led the series 38–⁠10–⁠1 in the games on file.

Away3Pittsburgh9–⁠1 in 1963
13
HomeWest Virginia4–⁠6 in 1963
10

FinalHigh 80°F, low 45°FAttendance 31,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Weekend Football

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 21, 1963, page 7 (results column)

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    Weekend Football Victory cheers are going up in college football for Wisconsin,, H. linois and Mississippi, but they are singing the blues for Georgia Tech. Second Wisconsin re- mained unbeaten and ran it’s win ming streak to four games by edg- ing Iowa 10 to ‘. Seventh-ranked Illinois beat Minnesota 16 to 6 after recovering four Minnesota fumbles. Mississippi, ranked fiji h, trounced winless Tulane 21 to c. Navy downed Virginia Military 2l to l2, with the help of Wierd touchdown in the second period. Northwestern whipped Miami of Ohio 37 to 6. Third-ranked Pitt had to com from behind to beat upset minded West Virginia 13 to 10. Eig th-ranked Georgia Tech Was an upset victim, losing to unde- icatcd Auburn 29 to 21. Nore Dame won it’s second straight game, beating UCLA 27 to I2. A touchdown pass and a touchdown run by Ron Digravio led Purdue to a g to 12 decision oyer M chigan. Michigan State scored three touchdoWns in the second half and beat Indiana 20–⁠3. Nebraska won it’s second straight game in the Big Eight, beating Kansas State 28 to 6. Sophomore quarterback Scotty Glacken threw four touchdown passes and led Duke to a 35 to 30 victory over Clemson.

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)

West Virginia 51% to win. Pittsburgh won as Elo’s underdog.

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 52 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025West Virginia 31, Pittsburgh 24
2024Pittsburgh 38, West Virginia 34
2023West Virginia 17, Pittsburgh 6
2022Pittsburgh 38, West Virginia 31
2011West Virginia 21, Pittsburgh 20
2010West Virginia 35, Pittsburgh 10

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