Pittsburgh at Navy

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  Evening star, October 11, 1914, page 61

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  TRIMMING FOR NAVY Pittsburgh University Out plays Middies, 13 to 6. HOT CONTEST AL THE. WAY Smoky City Foot Ball Men Play an Open Game, With a Varied Attack. ANNAPOLIS, Nd, October 10.-Fulfilling all expectations, the Navy Pittsburgh University foot ball game here today developed into one of the hottest contests seen on the local grid iron for long time, and the boys from the Smoky city emerged from tie fray victors by Is to 6. Conquerors of Cornell last Saturday, the Pittsburghers invaded the, Middies’ lair with every confidence in their ability, and they found that it was not by any means misplaced. Playing much open foot ball, with a varied attack and a stubborn defense. the Pennsylvamans were able to master every situation of the game with the exception of Mitchell and Capt. Overesch. that gave the Middies their touchdown. Pittsburgh drew first blood in the opening quarter Of the game. And | while a, forward toss was almost entirely responsible for the Middies’ sin gle touchdown tally, SO it. was that two similar plays largely contributed to Pittsburgh’s initial score. Starting on with a rapid-fre attack. with a line shift that almost completely bewildered the Middies, Pittsburgh easily outplayed Navy In the first half. Pitts first score came just after Williamson made fizzle of a try for field goal from the 45-yard mark. Navy Immediately punt ed the ball outside on her own 35-yard line. In the first scrimmage Miller cir cled Navys right for Is yards. Pitts burgh made a mighty assault on Navy’s | line. which yielded and yards at a clip, and Williamson finally ployed through for a touchdown. hastings kicked goal. Just prior to this the Middles got within the visitors 15-yard line, and a score seemed imminent, but they lost the ball on a tumble. There was no more scoring in the first half. although. Pittsburgh maintained a slight advantage. Warm Second Half. The second half opened with both teams fighting hard. and the Middies gained ground more readily by line plunges and short tackle plays. NAVY carried the ball from midfleld to Pitts i burgh’s 30-yard mark Here the Wis itors braced. and it was at this juno ture that Mitchell essayed a beautiful captain was on dead run, and, turn ing, caught the fast-sailing pieskin under his left arm. He was directly in front of the goal line when brought t0 earth. In the fall he went across TIE mark. The punt out for a try at goal was a failure. Three minutes after this Pittsburgh blocked Blodeett’s at tempted punt on Navy’s 2O-yard line. Peck recovering the leather and can, tering across for a score. HASTINGS tried for goal from difficult angle. bEt the. ball hit the bar and fell beneath. Williams, Miller, Heron and Peck were shining lights for PITTSBURGH. The lineup and summary:

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  The sun, New York [N.Y.], October 11, 1914, page 21

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  PITTSBURG HUMBLES NAVY IN HOT BATTLE Makes Good Use Of Open Play to Get Two TOuchdOwns to One by Middies. ALEXANDER IN TOO LATE ANNAPOLIS, Oct. lo-In “A fnely contested football game played here this afternoon the eleven Of the University OF Pittsburg won from the Mldshipmen by l3 to 8. Both teams used varied attack and gained much ground. hut honors were slightly though distinctly with the visitors. Both made good use of the for ward pass and both had backs who could make steady gains by means Of line plunges. but Pittsburg excelled in the fast running game Alexander was put IN the Nays backheld during the latter part OF the game, and was by far the most successful runner with the ball that the Midshipmen used, hut throughout the game Williamson and DC Hart did some efficient sprinting for the visitors The Navy started with Failing, Blod- Fett and Harrison, all weighing upward OF $50 pounds, In tho backiie’d, and at tempted TO overpower the Pittsburg line, In the first Ave minutes Of the game they were successful. but Blodgetts tumble on the 10 yard line gave tho ball to the enemy and williamson made mighty punt down the fleld. Later In the quarter a short forward pass from Williamson 70 Heron put the ball one yard from the Nayy’s goal line and Williamson carried Il over. Hastings kicked the goal. II was claimed that Pittsburg had been allowed an extra down Just before. Both scored In the third quarter Oyeresch by a tremendous EFFORT caught a long pass from Mitchell Just over the line. The kickout was missed. Toward the close OF the period Peck. with tho help OF some colleagues, blocked Bod getts punt. He recovered the ball ny a desperate leap and carried It for a touch down. The goal was missed. The second and nnal quarters were deadlocked. The 1t,aa

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  Omaha daily bee, Omaha [Neb.], October 11, 1914, page 37

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  Pittsburgh Lads Hand Navy Eleven Severe Trimming ANNAPOLIS, Md, oct 1O.-Navy’s foot ball team was given a 10 to defeat at the hands of Pittsburgh university here today, the visitors geeting revenge for their defeat of last year. Navy missed the only chance II had to Kick goal and Pittsburgh lost one chance Lineup:

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Pittsburgh leads 22–⁠15–⁠3 in 40 meetings, counting the 37 since this game.