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Show V Pitt Sours On Belated Grid Games ByTlDSON BAIEET PITTSBURGH, Dec. X Pin this in your bonnet, football fans, 'ths Panthers of Pitt will not play in the Rose bowl gam for a long time. As the aftermath to this week's lively controversy over whether Pitt would, or could, go west, unquestioned un-questioned sources on the campus say the athletic council will rule this winter against future grid squads competing in any postseason postsea-son games. Athletic Director James (Whitey) Hagan, who scored Pitt's only touchdown against Stanford In 1928 when the Panthers made their first coast jaunt, declined to comment on the probable plans of the council. coun-cil. But lie saidr "Of course, everybody has known for weeks 1'ltt officially didn't care very much about going go-ing In the Rose bowl, but we left the question entirely in the hands of the boys. "I was tickled pink that the vote was 16 to 19 against, instead of 16 to 15 for. We would not havt gone, provided we were invited, without unanimous agreement of the players. play-ers. The way the vote was reported report-ed keeps our policies in accord with the majority's wish." Pitt's swing away from postseason postsea-son competition after four trips to the Rose bowl and one charity contest con-test with its mighty little neighbor, Duquesne, fits in with the "Hagan plun" for toning down the Panther powerhouse. Next year Pitt will play ten games, but thereafter will schedule sched-ule only nine. The Panthers will meet no more "setups," choosing such foes in 19M as (Southern Methodist. Duke, Fordham, Nebraska, Ne-braska, Wisconsin and natural district rivals such as Duquesne, Carnegie Tech. Penn State, Temple Tem-ple and West Virginia. For the last several weeks of this season so much attention has been focussed on the Panthers' probable postseason intentions that the immediate im-mediate objective of their regularly scheduled engagements became somewhat obscured. Many of the players had formed ideas about a December jaunt before be-fore the schedule ended and coaches complained of the difficulty diffi-culty of keeping the squad pointed up week nfter week. All of this, it is indicated on reliable re-liable authority, has served to convince con-vince the Pitt athletic authorities! that their announced plans for' bringing sports into line with other activities of the university will best be served by clamping the lid on football at the end of November. |