Also, Alfred R. Hamilton, noted longtime supporter of the Pitt football program, offered the use of his farm in Windber, PA to the team for the month of September as a training facility.

During his tenure, he was instrumental in negotiating the deal with Barney Dreyfuss to play the home games at Forbes Field; he instituted mail order ticket procedures; he managed the payment of the part time employees needed for the games; he set up a schedule of teams that fans wanted to see play; and the athletic department went from being in debt to having a surplus.

"[17][18] The Pitt Athletic Committee met on April 9 and announced that they hired 1911 Princeton All-American lineman Joseph Duff as coach for the 1913 season.

Reporter L. G. Boggs of The Pittsburgh Press penned: "Pitt's football warriors opened the season at D. C. & A. C. Park, Wilkinsburg, yesterday by defeating the Ohio Northern University eleven 67–6.

[3][29][30] Mr. Boggs of The Pittsburg Press added:"One thing in evidence throughout the entire game, was that the Pitt men were tackling far better than they did last season.

The Pitt team secured a sleeper car and boarded the train early (9 p.m.) on Thursday evening "in order to give them the benefit of the extra slumber."

[38] "It was not made public what Duff said to the men during the interim between the halves but it must have had the tabasco tinge to it, for the Pittites went into the game hot and heavy from the start.

The Owl Yearbook stated: "On October eighteenth, the Carlisle Indians invaded Pittsburgh and met the surprise of their lives at the hands of the Wagner tribesmen.

Wagner never stopped, never hesitated, but gave a bound and a leap like a deer taking fright and was on his way towards the Cornell goal line 55 yards away....

The Post-Gazette noted: "But the ball did not stay within the grasp of the Cornell star's hand: it slipped through and before he could bend his back to recover, Wagner, picked it up and was away like a greyhound.

He lofted the ball 30-yards downfield to Sturgis," and the versatile Bucknell end gathered it in and ran 45-yards for a touchdown, after which he failed to kick goal.

"Notwithstanding the fact that Duff read the riot act to the bunch during the interim between the halves, the Gold and Blue was unable to make headway against the visitors in the final periods.

Al Hamilton (Athletic Committee Member) remarked to L. G. Boggs of The Pittsburgh Press after the game: "It was a case of overconfidence.

[58] After a week of strenuous practice Coach Duff decided to move Leo Collins to fullback and Fred Ammons to end for the Lafayette game.

Richard Guy of The Gazette Times wrote: "Pitt showed the real come back spirit in football yesterday afternoon at Forbes Field by beating the Lafayette representatives in a hard-fought contest by 13 points to 0.

game a week hence hanging on the horizon a mass of dark storm clouds, the good ship Pitt navigated safely the reefs labeled Lafayette on the schedule chart, and the blue and gold mariners now make everything shipshape for the coming blow, conscious that they have steered an excellent course through troubled waters, with only one wreck to their credit.

When it was found that no horsepower scrapers were available, Director Miller took the question up with President Allen of the senate and it was decided to utilize the fiery loyalty of the students in the crisis at hand.

At 2:30 the skeptics who had predicted the impossibility of the scheme began to depart in disgust, for the steadily increasing green space gave promise of the speedy conclusion of the operation.

From the sideline the soup line came and went, refreshed...The gravity of the football situation at the University of Pittsburgh is pretty well illustrated by the desperate methods that were taken yesterday in order to give the team the benefit of out-of-door practice.

[66] The Red and Black, led by second-year head coach Bob Folwell, came into the game with a 6–0–1 record, heir only blemish being a scoreless tie with Yale.

"[70] Ralph S. Davis of The Pittsburg Press reported: "In the presence of 25,000 wildly enthusiastic fans, the largest throng that ever witnessed a gridiron contest in Pittsburg, Washington & Jefferson yesterday won the football championship of western Pennsylvania defeating the University of Pittsburgh by the decisive score of 19–6...The gridiron warriors battled on a field actually ankle-deep in slimy, sticky mud.

The Pitt defense stiffened, but "on fourth down the rotund Patterson (W. & J. tackle) dropped back to the 28-yard line and, Goodwin assisting, kicked a goal from placement."

Hube Wagner mused: "I had dreams of leading my eleven to victory against Washington and Jefferson in the next to last game of my college career.

"[78]Pitt starting halfback Robert Peck needed to take an examination on Thursday morning to "bring his scholarship record up to par.

"[81] Florent Gibson of The Post offered his insight:"One point-one measly, little unit representing a touchdown goal, gentlemen, may on ordinary occasions seem to be a trifle not worth troubling about.

But, infinitesimally small as it may be, 'twas enough to make all the difference in the world when Pitt met State in the closing struggle of the year at Forbes Field yesterday.

"[82] According to The Philadelphia Inquirer: "The first period was productive of nothing more than short gains and long punts, the work of (Guy) Williamson and (John) Clark being of great value to their teams.

The fleet little halfback raised Pitt's total to 7, the winning number, by booting the ball directly over the bar from the 20-yard line at a difficult angle.

The best of feeling prevailed between the opposing rooters.."[86] The Gazette Times reported: "Between halves the Pitt students formed into a serpentine parade and marched around the field four abreast.

), William Hollenback (Penn State), John B. Streit (Princeton), George B. Underwood (N.Y. Press), Glenn S. Warner (Carlisle) and J.M.