Sport: Pure Little Pitt

A team that had not won a game all season rose up and beat a team that had not lost a game all season. It was the greatest upset of 1941.

"Get your rose-colored glasses so they won't look so bad," bawled butchers in Pittsburgh's 70,000-seat stadium last week as a scant 27,000 football fans trickled in to watch Pitt play Fordham.

Sportswriters had already awarded this year's Panthers the booby prize of big-time college football: they had been beaten 6-to-0 by Purdue, 40-to-0 by Michigan, 39-to-0 by Minnesota, 27-to-7 by Duke 21-to-14 by Ohio...

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