Pittsburgh at Navy

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  Evening capital and Maryland gazette, Annapolis, Md., October 6, 1913, page 1

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  PITTSBURGH ELEVEN TARTAR FOR MIDDIES o,.,iro Football Game Of Season a ScoreIess Tie. VISITORS STRONG DEFENSE. Al They Uacorked Clever Variety ,tFsney Plays Navy Contingent Pleased. However, ... ....a of the University r..a.-a as opponent, the mid ....rr.r.5 their season OF foot ~r.. Saturday afternoon. and died ina .r0raless tie, after 48 Nh. Gafcest kind of play tennis could not have been ..s..1.g matched in point Of play snfn though Navy probably L Fu., advantage in weight. ~t.e tt. m.adies 0orced the fighting ,r most O. the first half, the visi- “-.L... th sailor lads on the de- -..... .#- t1a Greater part Of the m5 aa. though neither team BANS. threatened the others goal. rs. nai.es. however, felt Just .,.t.. shortly after the opening of t. .a..1I ha.. when the Pitts s,,tsrs with the advantage Of the .-5 and tae generally superior kick ,s. Amm5as over Alexander, kept ID. confined entirely in Navy terri .,r IN oaa instance they had pos .....oB OF the ball on Navy’s 20-yard n. where the locals recovered it on an -fBterc,pted forward pass by Nc gssy. and then punted out of dan ,s- A similar condition in favor .ftAa nilijes existed in the first s.s though aJ no time did the sailor ..5. have The leather inside of Pitts mgbs 25-yarl mark. The absence OF scoring or spectacusrrars left little OF the descriptive mHrite about. The longest run of ,1. game was Jhat by He’ll, a little ..oe who played “a brilliant game “a gmrt5rHack Tor Pittsburgh. In IN. second half. on % fake play, he u. srouni Navy left wing for 20 u5s Both teams had tries for field pas Brown. of Navy, tried three iom placement, while He’ll, of Pitts mrgh. sssayed two drop kicks, but thew We’re either blocked or were misa8b.e failures. twas apparent early in the game .ra, il was going TO be a tight bat te, with the strong probability of a r1scor5 result, but in spite Of that gch them kept battering at the ,ber’s line, and frequently brought be forward pass into play with the hope Of bcttering things. The team hajabcut equal success in this re- Fegt though q majority of the for Vari tosses were rank. Interest in ag game as marred to some extent, ‘latit was made to drag by the ireqgeacy with which the officials were called upon Go inhict penalties for holding OF uu-slde. jhe midiies suffered the loss of aeou. two yards 20 Pittsburgh’s one, betsase oi the infractions of rules. The sm.diles probably gained a few nor5 yards than their opponents by rushing. but the defensive play of i’s teams Was. on the whole, admiraoe The players generally were ‘tf’ 4” The fancy plays att 3mpted H3 succeeded in smsaring them lle readily The visitors uncorked a”rety Of good open plays, some which ne.ted gains. for 81 season-opener, however, @e Navy contingent was pleased WIN ihe wock of the middies. One “7s certain, the team has a s”eru. combination of forwards, o-‘ much IS yet TO be accomplished .as bacAdeld especially along ls ‘ne ,i developing speed in get -as away with the plays.

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  The Washington herald, Washington, D.C., October 5, 1913, page 32

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  PITTSBURGH ELEVEN DRAWS WITH MIDDIES One Penalty Costs Navy a Touch down-Lack of Practice Hurts Teams Chances. Annapolis, Md, Oct. 4-The University of Pittsburgh played the Navy to 4 standstin in the opening game of the season here today. the score being 0 to 0. The Navy team has only had a weeks practice and lacked any semblance of team work, and after the second period showed they were not in condition to burgh. Many of the midshipmen were nervous, and the Navy team was penal lied on several occasions, one of which cost them a touchdown. McReavey, Harrison. and Vail, the Navy backs, played the best game of the day, Harrison especially distinguishing himself by his consistent gaining while he was in the game.

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 5, 1913, page 1

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  NAVY TIES PITTSBURGH Middies Often Penalized in Scoreless Gridiron Battle. Annapolis, oct. Good football and scoreless tie marked to-days game be tyoene the elevens of the Naval Academy and the University OF Pittsburgh. which onened the season for the midshipmen. The visitors had a better variation OF plays. and their work indicated more thorough drilling. but individually the midshipmen were stronger, and they made more gains on straight line plays. The Navy coaches used a number OF second string men Tho lfne-un follows.

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  The Lake County times, Hammond, Ind., October 6, 1913, page 3 (results column)

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  SATURDAY FOOTBALL Chicago. 81: Indiana, Z. Northwestern. 10; Lake Forest, O.. Wisconsin, So; Lawrence, z. Minnesota, Is; Ames, 0. Purdue, &c; Wabash, 0. Michigan, IS; Case, o. Ohio State, SIS. Wesleyan. 0. Drake. 0; Coe. o. Kansas Z; william Jewell, o. Notre Dame. ST; Ohio Northern. O. De PAW. 90; Moore’s Hill. 8. Missouri SO; Drury, 0. Michigan Aggies, rs; Olivet, 0. Nebraska, 10; Washburn, 0. Cornell college, 81; Wesleyan, o. Vanderbilt, So; Maryville, o. Yale, o. Maine, o. Harvard. IA; Bates, 0. Cornell, 81; Oberlin. IL. Princeton, So; Fordham, o. Penn, 10; Lafayette. 0. Navy. 0; Pittsburg. 0. Carlisle, 81; Lehigh. 7. Dartmouth, So; Colby, 0. Penn State. As; Carnegie Q. l., o. Syracuse, IS; Hamilton, o. Colgate. I’ll; Amherst, 0. Army, “a; Stevens. 0. Wesleyan. 10; Bowdoin, Z.

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Pittsburgh leads 22–⁠15–⁠3 in 40 meetings, counting the 38 since this game.