Friday, November 13, 1942
DAILY NEBRASKAN
"De-emphasized" Pitt Panthers
Hold Edge Over Cornliuskers
By Henry Fishback.
Football's de-emphasized Pitta
burgh Panthers and Nebraska's
slightly de-emphasized Scarlet
gridiron machine meet in their an
nual traditional battle Saturday in
the Smoky City.
Pittsburgh Panthers once
mighty monarchs of the nation's
gridiron world in the days of Pop
Warner and Dr. John Bain Suther
land but de-emphasized by the
scholastic axe in recent years
will be embarking on their 15th
annual pigskin mission against the
Cornhuskers.
Prophesied as a tossup the cur
rent Pitt-N. U. traditional struggle
which still strikes fire into the
hearts of the arch combatants pits
together two injury-riddled, off
and on aggregations, currently
tarnished with defeat.
N. U. Wins Opener.
Nebraska's first great "big
time" triumph of the modern era
marked the beginning of the pig
skin series as the Scarlet led by
Harley, Swanson and Preston of
Fred Dawson's great Nebraska ag
gregation downed the "wonder
team" of Pop Warner. Hartley
passed to Swanson, 69 yards for
a T. D. on the last play of the
first half and Preston added a
field goal to the total in that
heralded Nebraska triumph of
1921.
Terrific battles followed in the
block of games from 1927 to 1941.
Pitt grabbed the sensational and
hard fought opener resisting a
Presnell-Howell sparked offensive
that rolled them back on their
heels in the second half. The final
score was 21-13. Nebraska didn't
attempt a single forward pass as
in a scoreless tie in 1928 Clair
Sloan fired one to Morgan one au
tumn later, for a touchdown that
wan't enough as Pitt won 12 tod 7.
Staunch Scarlet goal line stands
forced a scoreless tie in 1930 but
Pittsburgh's All American Warren
Heller tore up on the sod with
four touchdowns in a 40 to 0
slaughter the year after. Pitt's
barrage of passes and laterals with
Mike Nicksick the villian with five
touchdowns netted the Panthers a
6 to 0 win in 1933 and a 25 to 6
decision one year gone as a Bauer
to Tolman Cornhusker aerial
proved inadequate.
Patrick's touchdown was enough
In 1935 but the Panthers had to
sweep from behind to overcome a
Cornhusker margin produced by a
Francis to Cardwell aerial hit to
win 19 to 6 in 1936. Over 71,000
shirts for
officers
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fans saw. Husker Dodd on a 60
yard scoring run but Pitt triumph
13 to 7 in 1937 while Cassiano
managed a 19 to 0 Panther verdict
in 1938.
Fullbacks Shatter Pitt.
Nebraska's polished pair of
sophomore fullbacks, Hank Rohn
and Vike Francis split the Panther
line to give the Scarlet a 14 to 13
win in 1939 and break a seven
game Pitt domination of the se
ries and N. U. repeated in 1940
with Francis kicking a victory,
field goal after an early Harry
Hopp touchdown.
Special Delivery Jones carried
the mail for the Panthers in the
form of two last minute touch
downs racing 75 yards for one and
setting up another. Bradley scored
early in the second period for Nebraska.
Aerial Artists
Fire KU Fray
LAWRENCE, Nov. 6. For the
second straight year the Washing
ton University Bears of St. Louis
and the University of Kansas Jay
hawks will probably engage in a
pitcher's battle when the two
teams collide on the gridiron at
Lawrence this Saturday afternoon.
Last year it was "Riflin' Ralph"
Miller for Kansas and Wilson
"Bud" Schwenk for Washington
who provided the fans with an
aerial display which was dimmed
only slightly by the murky
weather. Schwenk completed nine
out of 18 passes that day and
went ahead to set three new sea
sonal records. .
During 1941 Schwenk attempted
the most passes, 234; completed
the most passes, 114; and gained
the most net yardage by passing,
1,457. His pass percentage com
pletion was .487 compared to
Miller's mark of .529 from 55 com
pleted passes out f 104 attempts.
This year the two overhead art
ists will be Ray Evans for the Jay
hawks and Lee Tevis for the
Bears. Only a sophomore, Tevis
has been the running and passing
spark which has gained three vic
tories for Coach "Kitty" Gorman's
young and inexperienced crew.
On the other hand, Evans has
been performing like the seasoned
and ail-American candidate that
he is. For five weeks he has led
the entire nation in the number of
passes he has completed. His
record now stands at 71 comple
tions out of 147 attempts for a
gain of 788 yards.
This number of completed
passes is more than all but two
passers completed during the 1941
season when Schwenk was on top
followed by Owen Price of Texas
Mines with 94 completions. An
other national record which is be
ing endangered by Evans is the
number of passes intercepted by
an individual. In seven games
Evans has intercepted eight passes
and the national record is 11
passes intercepted by Jim Tarbox
of Texas Tech in 1938.
Glen Cunningham
Saves IS Meet
AMES, la., Nov. 9. Glenn Cun
ningham and the Cornell college
cross country team came to the
rpsrue Fridav when Drake univer
sity cancelled its scheduled dual
with the Iowa State team.
Cunningham, Cornell director of
athletics who is directing the team
today in the absence of Coach
Ralph Scott, completed arrange
ments with Cyclone Coach George
Bretnall by telephone.
Millard Easton, Drake coach,
exDlained the cancellation in a let
ter Friday by saying a mixup in
the Bulldog schedule wouia nave
comDflled his team to race Grin-
nell on Friday and Iowa State
Saturday.
The utronir Cornell team, cham
pions of the Midwest conference,
is lead by Howard Orms and Dave
Clutterham. Clutterham rates as
one of the finest distance men
ever to run in Iowa. During most
of the present season ne nas Deen
combating illness and injury but
still is rated near the head of the
list in Iowa Cross country.
Juniors, Seniors
Have Yearbook
Pictures Taken
Nov. 17 ha been set as the
deadline for juniors and seniors
to have their pictures taken for
the Cornhusker, according to
Bill McBrlde, managing editor.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 12
Pitt Panther coaching staff con
tinued to make changes today as
the Smokey City cjub swung into
its final practice routine prior to
the Saturday joust with Ore Ne
braska Cornhuskers.
Injuries continued to bother the
staff and may keep the club from
swinging back into winning stride
following last week's disastrous
loss to Ohio State.
Dutton Counted On
In the backfield Bin Dutton ap
pears the only available ball-toter
to handle the tailback assignment
Tony DiMatteo is laid up with
his bad Jeg and Jack Statler still
limps on a spraintd ankle.
Statler normally performs at
the wingback station, but has
been able to run, so Lou Chelko
was advanced to the starting
combination. This shift was neces
sitated by Angelo Carlaccini's bad
ankle. Behind Walt West at the
quarterback post is Ed Slavin,
sophomore who replaces injured
Bobby Smith as second string signal-barker.
Johnny Baker still holds his
right tackle Job, though previously-injured
Joe Salvucci is now
recovered. Bill Kyle, top blocking
end, and Marty Roscpink, a hard
hitter, are alternating at the right
end post. Frank Mattioli has the
call at left guard ahead of vet
Bill Dillion.
Pitt Patting Attack
Remainder of the lineup re
mains stationary with Jack Duri
shan at left tackle, Mike Sotack
at left end, Jim Clowes at center
and Vince Antonelli, who has
started every game thus far, at
right guard.
Main strategy against the
Huskers will be to mix Bill Dut
ton's passes with his running.
Dutton has contributed over half
of the Pitt offensive yardage thus
far and has tossed nearly all of
the passes. With Statler and Di
Matteo on the shelf, Pitt will
place all hope on Mr. Dutton.
YWCA Staff Leaders
Meet in Ellen Smitli
YW staff leaders will meet at
Ellen Smith at 12:30 today for
lunch.
Husker Players
Plan to Offset
1941 Pitt Win
Mentor Glen Presnell and his
Husker grid cripples spent a
peaceful evening in Chicago last
night and were looking forward
to tomorrow's clash with the Pitt
Panthers today.
Despite the crippled condition
of the squad, the gridders are de
termined to. erase all memory of
Pitt's narrow squeeze last year.
Hot and Cold.
Hot and cold Pitt record fea
tures a 20-7 win over potent
Southern Methodist, a 7-6 defeat
by the powerful Great Lakes club,
and a 7-19 loss to Indiana. Ohio
State won, 59-19, over the Pan
thers last week and Minnesota
triumphed 50-7 two weeks pre
vious. Presnell indicated last night
that he intends to start Mary
Athey, Ki Eisenhart, Roy Long
and Fred Metheny in the Husker
backfield. Long and Metheny are
still a bit below par as a result of
the beating they took against Mir
zou. Chances are that Dale Bradley
and At Zikmund, vet backfield
performers, will gain a nod at the
tiller but only In relief duty.
With Bobby Cooper still nursing
his sore shoulder, soph Harold
Hungerford may see action as
Fred Metheny's quarterback un
derstudy. The Huskers will arrive In the
Smokey City tomorrow morning
for the battle.
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