Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Ohio State had a championship-calibre team. Last week unbeaten Ohio State's opponent was great Notre Dame, on its way back to the prestige and glory of days when its teams were coached by the late great Knute Rockne. This Notre Dame team had beaten Navy, Pitt, Wisconsin, Carnegie Tech, Kansas. Ohio State looked like the hardest jump in the country's hardest schedule. Day of the game, a ticket for one of the 81,000 seats in the Ohio State stadium was worth $20. The Ohio State band, often called best...
...Pitt is the only team that has beaten Notre Dame three years in a row since 1900. Notre Dame's Coach Elmer Layden waited anxiously last week until three minutes before the Pitt game ended. Then, with the score tied, a basketball star named Martin Joseph Peters kicked the field goal that won for Notre Dame...
...University of Pittsburgh one day last summer went three pedagogs, sent by the American Association of University Professors to investigate the dismissal from Pitt's faculty of Historian Ralph E. Turner (TIME, July 16). Pitt's Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman* said the dismissal was due to Dr. Turner's "sneering, sarcastic, flippant attitude toward religion." But all Pittsburgh believed it was because of Dr. Turner's loud liberalism...
Chancellor Bowman met the three pedagogs in the University Club. First thing he did was to take them outdoors and point to a beautiful Gothic skyscraper rising through the city's smoke from the University campus. That skyscraper is Pitt's Cathedral of Learning, whose exterior is done but whose interior awaits the raising of more millions. As the four men walked up the hill toward it, the pale, intense, esthetic Chancellor told his companions what the Cathedral means to him. It was his vision; it is his life work; it will be his monument. To build...
...minutes later, after a 40-yd. march to Pitt's 18-yd. line, Minnesota sprang the "Sunday play"-a double lateral pass followed by a forward. Lund to Tenner-that it had saved for just such a crisis. The touchdown won the game...