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Message: [QUOTE="Orangeyes, post: 43639, member: 34"] [FONT=Helvetica]The 1918 college football season was nearly wiped out. The war had already deprived most schools of able-bodied veteran players, and freshmen dominated many rosters this season. On top of that, the Spanish flu pandemic led to the cancellation of a great many games nationwide, so that most schools played half a season or less, and some schools didn't play at all.[/FONT] [FONT=Helvetica][B][I][COLOR=#1d2b43][FONT=Verdana]November 23, 1918[/FONT][/COLOR][/I][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Helvetica][B][I][COLOR=#1d2b43][FONT=Verdana][IMG]http://members.cox.net/mbordelon4/PopWarner.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://members.cox.net/bngolden3/JohnHeisman.gif[/IMG][/FONT][/COLOR][/I][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Helvetica][B][I][COLOR=#1d2b43][FONT=Verdana]Pitt Coach Pop Warner & John Heisman coach of Georgia Tech[/FONT][/COLOR][/I][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Helvetica] [LIST] [*][COLOR=#1d2b43][FONT=Verdana]"PITTSBURGH, Pa. — The [B]Pittsburgh Panthers[/B] became officially the world's football champions this afternoon by defeating the celebrated [COLOR=#263765][B]Golden Tornado[/B][/COLOR] from [COLOR=#263765][B]Georgia Tech[/B][/COLOR], 32 to 0, in a game played for the benefit of the war work fund before a crowd that packed Forbes field and was estimated at fully 30,000. The Southern champions presented a comparatively green team, with only two veterans in the line-up, but their tremendous victories over all the enemies in their own territory this season had caused them to be heralded as nearly the peer of the famous [COLOR=#263765][B]Tornado[/B][/COLOR] of 1917, which had swept all before it, including the [Carlisle] [B]Indians[/B] and [B]Pennsylvania[/B]. The youngsteres simply were not equal to the task of coping with [B]Coach Warner[/B]'s powerful, experienced machine." [I]The Syracuse Herald[/I][/FONT][/COLOR] [/LIST] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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