Word: pitt
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...schoolboy and as a college freshman--he captained the latter team--Maras was moved to tackle on the varsity. In his junior year the Dukes beat Rose Bowl-bound Pitt, 7 to 0, and went on to trounce Mississippi State in the 1937 Orange Bowl. Maras was captain of the team the next season, and won the Samuel Weiss Award as outstanding scholar-athlete. After graduation in June, 1938, he signed with the professional Pittsburgh Steelers...
...Terrapins, ranked No. 2 by the writers. No. 3 by the coaches, its 17th in a row, over unbeaten Navy, 38-7; California, rated up with Maryland, a breather with Santa Clara, 27-7; the U.S.'s No. 4 team, Georgia Tech, over Auburn. 33-0; resurgent Pitt over Army, despite a furious fourth-quarter rally, 22-14; Minnesota, a 20-point underdog, an upset over fading Illinois, 13-7, to tie Purdue for the Big Ten lead...
...paradoxical that a physical shortcoming should disqualify him, because other physical gifts had brought him there in the first place. A 220-pounder, many colleges sought Schmitt after he had made a name for himself as a tackle at Carrick High School in Pittsburgh. Schmitt decided on. Pitt because it was closer to home and Jock Sutherland was producing great teams there...
...backfield coach named Josh Williams helping him. Schmitt never realized at the time that he would join the same Williams fourteen years later to try to pull Harvard football out of the doldrums. Nor did he realize that a star performer on the Duquesne team which upset Pitt in 1936, an end named Joe Maras, would also become an associate. "That Pitt-Duquesne game was really rugged," Schmitt recalls. "Joe once told me that the morning after the game, he couldn't get out of bed." The 1936 Pitt team, despite the loss, went on to play in the Rose...
...being able to watch him in practice," he says. After completing his procareer, Schmitt went on to become head coach at Sharon Hill (Pa.) High School, where he remained from 1941 to 1948, except for three years in the Navy during the war. He returned to Pitt as assistant line coach in 1948, and was appointed at Harvard...