| Show PITT DRAWS BIG BO CROWDS TO CONTESTS Warner Varner Not Likely to Re Rc- Return Re- Re turn Cavanaugh Is Free Agent n By EVANS CLEVELAND Dec flee 9 9 Dame Rumor has been mighty unfair to 10 the University or of o Pittsburg foot Coot foot Ball jail ball team of late particularly as a to attendance It lias has been boen freely treely circulated that rut i nt been drawing very well this season duo to the tact that the team his met with Ith varying suc success suc- suc success cess While Pittsburg was defeated hy by Lafayette and Carnegie Tech It In Inurn turn urn defeated West Vest Virginia and Penn State Sti lc and played 1 a a Do scoreless tie with Washington and Jefferson The last named teams ar are bitter rivals rl of ot Pitt and success agaInst them such as a tho Pant Panthers hero attained the past season In Itself maJ es everything that has hae gone before all right richt West Virginia was bellen 7 17 Penn State was wa trimmed 6 24 24 white while Washington and Jefferson vas as h held ld to a scoreless tie I mn TITE REAL L FACTS P Had a very Interesting chat the theother theother other day with K E B Davis ls radu at ate ale of athletics at Uni Uni- University University of or J No one Is Ismore 11 Ismore I more puzzled than ho lie at tire ru rumors ru- ru rumors mors relative to Pitts Pitt's slim sl slat Ilm at- at at attendance also the ballyhoo for tor tilt the m return ot of Glenn Glonn Warner Varner as coach Pitt has played to pee peo- people pi pIe during the tho I past pact season se- se seriously se so seriously doubt It If more than th two or oi r three other teams team have hav played to toa toa tc a a greater aggregate total It has ha appeared in print that tha t only 2000 p people ople attended our oui C tC game with Carnegie Tech That Tha ThaS t was a real blunder on some om ones one's one S part tor for the paid 1 attendance that tha t day was close t to the mark Our smallest smalle t crowd of ot the tile yea r was with Westminster wIllie a our biggest was the state stat S aS game which drew drev close to Certainly those figures do not no noi C make it appear as ns It If the toot ball i tans fans of or were Quitting or 1 the Panthers as re reported SUTHERLANDS SUTHERLAND'S RECORDS RECORD In these days ot of high S Coot football ball when a university having havin I Ia a 0 big bic hi stadium tails rails 1 to dra draw the th 3 crow crowds lis there Is always a II 1 for a t a change chango In coaches Coach Sutherland who succeed succeed- e ed Glenn Glean Warner arner and who absorb absorb- absorbed absorbed I ed cd his football under that learned I gentleman has been heen doing doluS a ver er I good job of ot it at Pitt One Ona year a ago o ho he went I tile the season sason with only on one ons defeat that at it the hands of or Lafayette where he hf formerly ly coached He lIe decisively Cly defeated Pitts Pitt's Pitt S three greatest rivals rl Penn State West est Virginia and and Washington and am an I Jefferson Incidentally the Warner arner stuff 1 I Is S timed ill timed ill since It- It ItIs It Is understood 1 ho hi S has signed with Stanford for tor ti e S Smore moro more years year Speaking of coaches one on ot of o the greatest In the country Major rank Frank Cavanaugh Is a tree free agent Any bl big collete e looking for tor a real coach need go to no further than Cavanaugh For eight years ears lie he Ii has turned out great grent teams at Boston college For two I successive years he beat great reat Yalo Yale teams and ond was then dropped from the Blue schedule coaching has lias been confined to Dartmouth his alma mater Holy HolyCross Cross and Boston eel eel- college leio col-leio lege He H has always been a big success Last year he ht was w s alt all but signed to lead Columbia after the th dell deal for tor Knut nute Rockne tell fell through Cavanaugh Ca is a a forceful character I who develops real men inca as well welt as great athletes n |
