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Word: pitt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governor had a specific game in mind: Georgia Tech had contracted to play the University of Pittsburgh in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2. Pitt has been selling its block of tickets on a desegregated basis, and Bobby Grier, a Pitt reserve fullback, is a Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Armageddon to Go | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Many Southern leaders and editorialists scornfully denounced Griffin's action. George Harris, president of the Georgia Tech student body, sent a telegram to the Pitt student body, apologizing for Griffin's action: "We are looking forward to seeing your entire team and student body at the Sugar Bowl." A spokesman for the governor indicated that he was having some second thoughts about the Sugar Bowl game. One of Georgia Tech's regents predicted that the board would back Griffin and adopt for future seasons a rule against playing under unsegregated conditions. But the 1956 Sugar Bowl game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Armageddon to Go | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...undefeated Sooners ran a run-of-the-mill offense against Oklahoma A. & M. and plowed the Aggies under 53-0. ¶ Georgia Tech's speedy backfield ran rings around outmanned Georgia as the Rambling Wrecks wrecked their traditional rivals 21-3 to earn an invitation to meet Pitt in the Sugar Bowl. ¶ Unimpressed by the fact that the Vanderbilt Commodores had come to town with their best team in 15 years. Tennessee's Volunteers made Coach Bowden Wyatt's first season in Knoxville a success by turning back the visitors 20-14 and souring their last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...pair of untamed Pitt Panther ends, John Paluck and Joe Walton, spent the afternoon in the West Virginia backfield and helped send the Mountaineers home on the short end of a 26-7 score, West Virginia's first defeat of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...Using two different teams and alternating them each quarter, Oklahoma Coach Bud Wilkinson successfully held off the best Pitt football team in years, extended the country's longest winning streak to 21 games as his Sooners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red Blaik's Blues | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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