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...meet was a victory for the West Coast and its orange blossom climate; Southern California amassed 47 1/2 points, almost double that of the runner-up, Michigan State. The University of California was third with 22 1/2, Pitt 20 1/2, Manhattan 15, Harvard 12, Princeton 10 1/2. N. Y. U. 10, Rhode Island 9, and Columbia...
Dated May 17, 1768 and sent by way of Virginia's Acting Governor John Blair, Washington's letter sought from Gage a favor for some Virginian friends trading with Fort Pitt at the top of the Ohio Valley. They wanted Gage to promise not to make a boundary shift that would throw a block of Indian territory across their route between Fort Cumberland and Fort Pitt and give the market to the Pennsylvanians, who were trading over a more northern route. His request, said Washington, "can give no offense to the Indians, nor any one else, unless there...
...facts that: 1) Pittsburgh had been undefeated this season, 2) Notre Dame had defeated Navy and fearsome Minnesota, 3) Notre Dame had un ceremoniously dropped Pittsburgh from future football schedules, combined to make the Pitt-Notre Dame game the most important of the week. At the end of the third period Notre Dame, although consistently outplayed, had a 6-to-0 lead. In the fourth period the weary Notre Dame defense collapsed. Pittsburgh's Goldberg, Stebbins & Patrick swiftly marched to three touchdowns and Souchak unerringly kicked each extra point. Score...
...Jones danced in Roman collar and black hat. To 2.000 Duquesne students gathered to warm up for next day's football game with arch-rival University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy Professor Jones roared: "Duquesne's football players will be out there fighting because they love their school. The Pitt team will be out there fighting, too, but only for their weekly pay checks...
...while Pittsburgh's football-playing "scholarship boys" get their tuition and books free, plus $48.50 a month for board, room and clothes, subsidized Duquesne players are paid not only with free tuition, books, meals, rooms and clothing but $15 a month besides (from sporty alumni) for spending money. Pitt rooters, therefore, thought Father Jones had committed an unpardonable indiscretion and the Duquesne administration hastily apologized to Pittsburgh...