Evening star., 1954-10-17
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Stadium on a sunny afternoon
before 31,151 fans. who rooted
the Panthers to their first vic
tory. Navy had won its previous
three games and was a two
touchdown favorite.
Pitt, coached today by its
athletic director, Tom Hamilton,
a former Navy coach subbing for
the i'll Red Dawson, had lost it's
first three games by wide mar
gins. But the aroused Panthers
utilized massive strength and a
couple of Navy fumbles to eX-
tend their personal string over
the. Middies to six games.
Navy Wages Last-Ditch Fight.
Navy's small, scrappy squad
made a dramatic effort that had
the crowd standing in the last
minute of play. Physically the
Panthers chopped up the Mid
dies. End Ronnie Beagle suf-
fered a torn mouth, Quarterback
George Welsh had the skin
scraped off his nose and other
Navy players carried evidence of
the pounding they took.
TRAILING, 2f-12. with 10 minutes
to go, the Middies, who had just
fumbled touchdown to the
Panthers, got down to the busi-
ness Of trying to pull it out.
They took the next kickoff and
scored on a drive of go yards
and a few minutes later regained
control on a Pitt tumble and
moved down to the Pitt %.
Welsh's fourth-down pass failed
and Pitt took over with 40 Sec
onds left. Navy got in two more
plays from scrimmage after a
Pitt punt, but the gun sounded
as Dick Guest took a behind
the-lineS pass from Welsh and
was downed on the Navy 38.
Extra Points Win for Pitt.
Ambrose (Amby) Bagamery, a
sophomore halfback, provided
Pitt with its winning margin. He
kicked all three extra points,
giving the Panthers a perfect
record in that department. Gene
Steratore made good on the
previous two attempts against
Southern California and Min
nesota.
George Textor tried Navy's
first kick, but the ball was de-
f1ected by Pitt lineman and fell
short. Quarterback Dick Echard
was short on the next one. Tex
tor made good on the final try,
but at that stage there was
nothing extra special about the
extra point.
Navy, which had handled Will
liam and Mary, Dartmouth and
Stanford with comparative ease,
kicked of, but had a touchdown
before Pitt touched the ball. An
unintentional on-sides kick was
taken by Beagle on the Pitt As.
With Bog Craig and Joe Gattuso
reeling off gains ranging from
one to ID yards, the Middies shot
frame Joe Hyland cut this to
down field for a touchdown at
3:01 of the quarter.
A few minutes later Navy was
bidding for another score, but
the Panthers held. Textor set
up this bid by intercepting Cor
nelius Salvaterra's pass on the
Pitt 81 and returning three yards
Craig. John Weaver and Gattuso
carried to a first down on the
10. With a backfield-in-motion
penalty helping, the Panthers
held for downs on the 5 and then
proceeded to go 95 yards for a
touchdown. Henry Ford, Bib
Grier and Salvaterra all ran, but
the biggest gain-54 yards
came on a pass from Salvaterra
to Fred Glatz. Salvaterra scored
on a one-yard sneak. \
Glatz recovered an Echard
tumble on the Navy 81 to set
up Pitts next score in the second
quarter. Salvaterra passed to
Bob McQuaide for IA yards and
then uncorked one to Ford for
% yards and the touchdown.
Late in the second quarter
Bill HepWorth intercepted a pass
by Pete Neft on the Pitt 81 and
returned 1t to the "a. Echard
pitched one to Jack Garrow. who
made q magnificent catch In thu
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