Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amateur football may be all right for the smaller schools, but not for really great institutions like Pitt," claimed one of 3,500 students who staged a two-hour walk-out to protest the resignation of Jock Sutherland...
Declaring that "in another ten years Yale might end up on the same field with Pitt and Notre Dame," the latest editorial proposed the pruning off of all intersectional games and the addition of at least two breathers...
...Most sportswriters agree that Pitt's Marshall Goldberg deserves the fullback position on this year's All-America. Shifted to the dirty work of blocking this fall (and thereby sacrificing the limelight). Goldberg made the Pitt attack powerful. contributed more than his share to the superb coordination of the "dream backfield." When he was on the sidelines with a leg injury four weeks ago Pitt lost its first game in two years (to Carnegie Tech). Last week it lost again-on a fluke to Duke. Although Duke won the game (7-to-0) on a lucky block...
Because of the wide publicity given Pitt's freshmen rebellion, football fans observed with special interest last week's game between Pitt and Penn State, For those who feared this may be the last of the great Pitt football teams under Coach Jock Sutherland (three of the famed "dream backfield" men are seniors) there was some solace in the brilliant performance of Halfback Dick Cassiano, lone junior of the harmonious quartet. Almost singlehanded, he scored three touchdowns, all on spectacular open-field runs that went a long way toward blasting an exceptionally good Penn State team...
Coach Jock Sutherland of Pittsburgh backed up this argument the other day when he was asked to name ten eastern teams which could win the majority of their games in the South. He called Carnegie Tech, Holy Cross, Pitt, Cornell, Dartmouth, Villanova, Harvard, Brown, Georgetown, and Army. Although he denied any special order, the order he named was by no means casual. Perhaps even at fifth, the Big Green was too high...