Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh's Eleven...
...notice with considerable disgust that in your football discussions in TIME for Nov. 16 you state that "a blocked kick in the last quarter gave Pittsburgh's sloppy team a victory after it had been badly outplayed all afternoon by Washington and Jefferson." Such a view scarcely coincides with my view of the affair...
That the day's work was of no fluke origin it might be noted that the next week the University of Pittsburgh sadly humiliated Old Penn, conquerors of Yale and of a host of other football aggregations of more than passing merit...
...affront the people of Pittsburgh with such unsightly aspersions as you cast on the Pitt Panthers after such noted and praiseworthy accomplishments ? We of the Pittsburgh district like our Pirates, our Panthers and our pugilists-point with pride to their accomplishments in the realm of sport, and distinctly view with alarm any attempt on TIME'S part to minimize Pitt's position in the football world...
...Pittsburgh at the leading hotel, an "Anti-Prohibition Enlightenment Dinner" was held by the local branch of the National Association against Prohibition. Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland, discussed a bill he will present 1) to repeal the Volstead Act; 2) to have each state define for itself "intoxicating liquors" referred to in the 18th Amendment, and enforce its own laws on the subject; 3) to have the Federal Government punish any person guilty of transporting into any state liquor more potent than therein allowed, the punishment to be ten years' imprisonment...