Word: pitt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Army's Black Knights were supposed to have a tough time handling the powerful invaders from Pitt. They did−for half the game. After that they got rolling and wrecked the Panthers...
...taken a dreadful chance in scheduling a tough first-game opponent had been nourished in Pittsburgh for weeks. The last team even to tie Oklahoma (42 games ago in 1953), the Panthers were said to have the stuff that makes for upsets. But even before the kickoff in Pitt Stadium, Pitt knew better. Sportswriters watched Oklahoma at practice, raced to their typewriters and passed the word. Wrote the Sun-Telegraph's George Kiseda: "The Sooners ran through everything as though they were qualifying for the Olympic 100-meter-dash final. On straight-T pitchouts, their quarterbacks did not just...
Alternating four powerful teams, any one of which seemed capable of handling Pitt, Oklahoma's Coach Bud Wilkinson saw his boys roll for 310 yds. on the ground, connect for three touchdown passes and top off the scoring with a 13-yd. touchdown dash by Right Half Clendon Thomas. "We have a heck of a lot of polishing to do," said modest Oklahoma Co-Captain Don Stiller, just as if he had not noticed the final 26-0 score. The remark made almost as much sense as Coach Wilkinson's pre-game prediction: "Frankly...
Beneath statues of the Duke of Wellington, William Pitt the Younger and of himself, 82-year-old Sir Winston Churchill, wearing white tie and tails, the blue ribbon of the Garter across his chest, looked and sounded the proud and unyielding Englishman as he spoke out last week in London's 500-year-old Guildhall. His audience was 550 American and British lawyers and their wives, his theme was that "justice knows no frontiers," and his warning was that "justice is not being achieved" in the U.N. Assembly...
Paul Striker, Joe Noble, captain Bob Foster, and Bob Gilmor will be the lone Crimson entrants in the annual NCAA wrestling tournament which begins at Pitt this evening...