The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-11-05
Game with Lafayette Team
November 8 in PennsyIya-
MIA Section to Be Great.
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PITTSBURUG, Nov. 5-Western
Pennsylvania has broken into the
football limelight this season as never
before. in her history. Competing
with the very best in the college foot
ball arena, the institutions OF this sec
ton have compelled the attention OF
the foremost football critics in the
country. First among these colleges
is the University OF Pittsburg which
Is enjoying just at present the banner
season Of its football history Before
complete arrangements had been made
for the coaching Of the team this year
a schedule harder than any previous
tone was arranged for the eleven.
Under the coaching of Joe Duff
former Princeton All-American tackle,
ably assisted by "Nobs" Harlan,
Princeton All5American half back, the
eleven this season have been making
gridiron history. After playing the
sredoubtable Navy team a scoreless tie
lat Annapolis, Duff's eleven over
whelmed West Virginia University and
astonished the whole football world
by handing decisive defeat to the
Carlisle Indians inst after that team
had conquered Cornell and was in the
midst of great winning streak. Fol
lowing up this feat the Pittsburg team
went one better from the standpoint
of college records by administering
an even more telling blow to the hopes
OF Al Sharpe's Cornell eleven the fol-
lowing Saturday This was the fourth
meeting between the two universities
on the gridiron and the first time that
Pittsburg has come out victor
In Captain Hube Wagner the Pitts
burg eleven has one of the brightest
stars in college football today III
was duo in, great part to the brilliant
performance sof this man att Tthacs
That Pistsburg was enabled to turn
tables.oD Cornell after the successive
defeats that she has suffered at The
hands of the Big Red team. Wagner
is one of the biggest and fastest ends
in the game today. He is most YER
satile PLAYER and has been used in
the backfeld with excellent results
when Pittsburg was short of material
in that department
Among the big colleges that Will APP
pear in Pittsburg this fall. perhaps
none is attracting more attention
than Lafayette which is played in
Pittsburg, November 8. Lafayette
has figured in the football ANNALS Of
the East for many years as one of the
important factors on the schedules of
the Big Four A worthy opponent.of
the best eleyens that have represents
ed the big eastern universities La
fayette has been victorious at times
over the premier football teams of
the country. Important as are the in
tersectional games staged yearly at
Pittsburg, an especial interest always
attaches to the advent of a new east
ern eleven in this district Lafayette
will bring to Pittsburg one of the
most formidable teams that has rep
resented that college in years. Fresh
from its experience with colleges that
figure most prominently in football
circles It will be most interesting to
compare the work of Easton eleven
with the Princeton style Coach Duff
Of Pittsburg has introduced this sea-
son.
The Gold and Blue eleven has
earned a reputation this year as one
of the best conditioned teams in the
field "A very evident cunning has di-
rected all the preparations of the
team in the games that have been
played. Pittsburg has simply outlast-
ed the best of her opponents and it is
this thing above all others that has
brought her through without a defeat,
With Washington and Jefferson and
State College to follow in short order
the outcome of the Lafayette game
will be watched with the greatest in
terest by western Pennsylvania foot
ball bugs
Out of town fans can secure tickets
for the Lafayette game by writing