The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-09
Pitt tumble IS
CAUSE OF SCORE
BYSgTHEIRLANDS
West Virginia Has Good
Chance to Wallop Pitt in
Battle Next Saturday.
81 LARRY.
odth will be served.


jock Sutherland, alias Young
Pop Warner" outfoxed the "oId
man himself at Forbes Field Sat.
friday afternoon, ,and Lafayette
heat Pitt at Pitts own game by
tine count of . 10 0. while 1900
people looked on.
You ask me, How did Suthet.
land beat Warner at his own
rafne 3fyj
answer that the lone break Of
ihe game that resulted in touch
down was the recovery Of a Pitt
Tumble on the Pitt .30yard line by
lafayette player, from which
paint he ran unhindered to the
epst line where he neatly touched
tht bt down, and after which ne
Niis to1sly tackled by n Pitt
piayer II that isn't beating War
ne a. his own game, then tell ME
the story Of what is.
Lafayette was better on funda,
mental football. and when thu
break came they got It. Game ait.
q game, Since Warner came to
Plttsburgh, has been put on the
correct side OF the Pitt ledger, be.
cause the Warnerites followed tine
hail better than their opponents,
hut they missed fire Saturday and
the tables were. turned.
IN fairness to Lafayette 1t must
be said that they have a wonderful
team and that they outplayed Pitt.
satnrdaYs victory made the thir
,eenff consecutive one for Lafay.
ettes they not. having been defeat.
ed since Pitt downed them two
years ago on Forbes Field by a
score OF 43to D. Jock Sutherland
was a little worried over the posi-.
biiFty OF taking thirteen in row,
and When he WAS on the way to
Pittsbnrgh he found that he had err.
trained exactly. twenty-three play,
ers He,thought this was too much
Of iipodoo, and sent back to Eas.
ton for another substitute, so tha'
syhen the game was called twenty
foir players made up the Lafayette
One should not get the idea tina:
since Lafayette defeated Pitt that
al West Virginia has to do is 10
20 down to Pittsburgh and grab on
the game next Saturday. Pitt still
has q right fair football aggrega.
ton despite the fact that Captain
Tom Holleran will likely be OUT Of
tho game for some time with a
fractured wrist. Personally think
tlyat the Mountaineers have 50.5U
chance 70 win the argument next
Saturday. but it will take real Of
fensiye football, because when all
Is said and one, Pitt has a good de.
tense, Lafayette made many gains
with their double passes and end
runs, but had It not been for the
fatsl tumble the game would have
bean teadlocked..
That Pitt has a keen defense in
the pifiches was shown quite clear.
~ when just a few minutes after
tho opening Of the second half Win.
terbufn who made the fatal fun.
bip. made his first one, and La
fayette recovered. They rushed
tho ban To the seven yard line for
first down. Three plays took the
ball to the four yard line, and In
the shadow of their own goal line,
Pitt broke up the final play and
TOOK tie ban on downs. There
was no quitting, either, for in the
final quarter, Pitt launched her
greatest drive. A mixture OF
Tiny Hewitt at the line and for
ward passes melted the Pittites
over nifty yards, and they lost the
ban on downs by a foot or two on
the lafayette fourteen yard line,
when a Pitt man was tackled after
taking q forward pass. At this
iunctpre only SIX minutes Of play.
Ing time remained ana those Of US
IN the press box knew that the
gnme was over right then, for Jock
Sutherland passed out the tip to
play II safe and there was no great
rush IN getting OF the Lafayette
plays With less than two mlnutes
to play, Latayete pnnted and Pitt
took sha ban on her own twenty
fiflsfs n * 10