Word: pitt
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...England Water Polo Tournament at Brown last weekend, Bucknell walked away with the honors, followed by Army, Pitt, Cornell, Yale Brown, Harvard and Massachusetts...
...Yankees, the counsel offered by Pitcher George ("Doc") Medich is probably even more worthwhile. Medich, a 19-game winner last season, doubles as a third-year medical student at Pitt. "A lot of guys ask me for advice," says Medich. "Last year Elliott Maddox had a bulge in his abdomen. I told him it might be a hernia or a ruptured pyramidalis" (a small rudimentary muscle). Medich's diagnosis was correct; Maddox had a hernia...
When the nation's stuffed sports fans waddled their way from the Thanksgiving table to their television sets, they were settling in for the third of a ten-course weekend football feast. Pitt and Penn State squared off at Pittsburgh's frigid Three Rivers Stadium* at the unlikely (but prime) hour of 9 p.m. The game time was arranged by ABC, which split almost $500,000 between the two schools to convince them that rescheduling the contest from a 1:30 p.m. start the previous Saturday made eminent sense. Penn State finally disposed of Pitt...
...contest had to be switched from Pitt Stadium, which has insufficient lighting to televise a night game...
...second day on the job, the new coach dropped in on the son of a steelworker in nearby Aliquippa. He went back ten more times in the next few months and finally talked Halfback Tony Dorsett into turning down some 100 other recruiters and coming to Pitt. Dorsett, who became the nation's first freshman All-America in 29 years, now says, "If it weren't for the coaching change, I wouldn't be here." That coup was just for openers. Capitalizing on the university's promise of a virtually blank check and his own folksy...