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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 ...
Program for November 16, 1929 Pitt vs. Carnegie Tech game. On November 16, 54,000 spectators flocked to Pitt Stadium for the sixteenth edition of the "City Game". [17] Pitt led the overall series with Carnegie Tech 11–4, but the Tartans had won four of the past six, including the previous year's 6 to 0 battle in the mud. [84]
Pitt and Duquesne have played the annual City Game since 1932. Duquesne was the city's first team to appear in a Final Four (1940), obtain a number one AP Poll ranking (1954), [58] and to win a post-season national title, the 1955 National Invitation Tournament on its second straight trip to the NIT title
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.
Program for November 9 game versus Carnegie Tech Ticket stub for November 9 game versus Carnegie Tech. The annual “City Game” between the Panthers and their Forbes Street neighbor Carnegie Tech took place on November 9. The Tartans were coached by Eddie Baker, a former Pitt player and assistant coach for 6 years (1931–1936) under Jock ...
On November 29, the (2–6) Pitt Panthers were matched against the (1–6) Carnegie Tech Tartans in the final game of the season for both schools. Pitt led the once heralded "City Game" series 21–5–1. [79] Tartan coach Eddie Baker's squad numbered only 23 and his best running back, Virgil Cantini, was injured and would not play. [80]
The city game with Carnegie Tech took on added significance, as Tech's coaching staff was now made up of former Pitt players and coaches. Head coach Bill Kern and his assistants Edward Baker, Joe Skladany and Frank Kutz all played for Sutherland at Pitt. Bill Kern was on Jock's coaching staff for 7 years (the last three as his main assistant).
1930 Pitt Panther mascot. Coach Sutherland needed to replace eleven members of the 1929 squad. Five regulars, Albert DiMeolo, Ray Montgomery, Joe Donchess, Toby Uansa and Tom Parkinson, received All-America honors, [15] while the six substitutes – Markley Barnes, James Rooney, Felix Wilps, Arthur Corson, William Loehr and Charles Edwards – all played substantial minutes during the season.