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The PNC Park City Game series ended in Pitt's favor, four games to two, with the 2007 game canceled because of poor field conditions. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The final City Game baseball series was split with Pitt winning an April 14, 2010 game at Trees Field 21–9, [ 14 ] and Duquesne, oddly serving as the home team at Pitt's Trees Field ...
Dubbed the City Game, the inter-city rivalry pits the only two Division 1 basketball schools located within Pittsburgh's city limits. With their campuses located only three miles apart, it was the most intense basketball rivalry for both schools through the 1970s.
The City Game trophy on display in the Petersen Events Center. The Panthers also have a sustained rivalry with crosstown opponent Duquesne University in The City Game. Peaking in ferocity from 1977–1982 when both were members of the Eastern Eight Conference, the rivalry has diminished somewhat since Pitt's move to the Big East Conference in 1982.
Baseball, hockey, and the first professional American football game had been played in the city by 1892. Pittsburgh was first known as the "City of Champions" when the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Panthers football team, and Pittsburgh Steelers won multiple championships in the 1970s. [1]
PPG Paints Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Pittsburgh that serves as the home of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). It previously was the home of the Pittsburgh Power of the Arena Football League (AFL) from 2011 to 2014.
The Petersen Sports Complex (PSC) is a 12.32-acre (4.99 ha) sports complex on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.It houses Charles L. Cost Field, Vartabedian Field, and Ambrose Urbanic Field, the respective home practice and competition venues of the university's NCAA Division I varsity athletic baseball, softball, and men's and women's soccer teams.
Pittsburgh (/ ˈ p ɪ t s b ɜːr ɡ / PITS-burg) is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census.
Field pass for the November 11, 1933 Pitt versus Duquesne game Armistice Day November 11, 1933 football program for the Pitt versus Duquesne game. Pitt's first step to regain the "City Championship" took place on Armistice Day against Elmer Layden's Duquesne Dukes, who were undefeated and still smarting from the 33–0 drubbing administered by ...