"[14] The Pitt Weekly reported: "The 1916 football season was not only a remarkable one in point of games won, but was also attended with great financial success, according to the Graduate Manager of Athletics.

This will more than take care of the development of non-profit producing sports, such as baseball, basketball, track, tennis, swimming and wrestling, and the Athletic Council will go into the 1917 football season with a nice balance.

Owing to the adoption of the One-Year Residence Rule and the fact that Freshman teams will be equipped and provided with coaches in all branches of athletics in future, these expenses will be materially increased.

"[18] In mid-May The Pittsburgh Post noted: "In the list of men who have signed up for the hospital corps of the university appear the names of Hastings, DeHart, Sies, McLaren, Seidel, Morrow and several other of the well-known athletes on the Pitt teams.

[20] On September 9, 1917 The Gazette Times noted: "The University of Pittsburgh football squad headed by Coach Glenn S. Warner and Captain Cliff Carlson, will leave tomorrow for Camp Hamilton, Windber, and the following day the first practice of the 1917 season will be held in the mountain retreat.

"[2] The Pittsburg Press noted: "Each team went into the game with a wholesome respect for the other's ability, and, while it was generally conceded that Pitt had the better chance of victory, West Virginia surprised everybody by coming back in the second half.

"[32] The University of Pittsburgh Athletic Council published a sixty-four page Eighth Annual Football Yearbook as a game day program that sold for fifteen cents.

"[37] The Pittsburg Press was impressed with the outcome: "The University of Pittsburgh football team opened its home season yesterday at Forbes Field by defeating the Bethany College eleven, 40 to 0.

"[39] Florent Gibson of The Pittsburgh Sunday Post was not impressed: "The Pitt football team looks like a lump of dough in the half-way stage between the mixing and the kneading out into pans.

This formless, amorphous condition was far more in evidence yesterday than it was a week ago down in Morgantown, and to carry the figure of speech to its logical conclusion, the pessimistically inclined have some grounds for wondering if "Pop" Warner, master-baker, will ever turn out a fine assortment of crispy brown loaves – not loafers – bearing his well known trademark.

"[42] Sunday morning Mr. Gibson was humbled: "It is with mixed feelings, dear readers, that we chronicle the Pitt-Lehigh game that was long and tiresome in the happening at Forbes Field yesterday afternoon.

That "Souse Beslem" bunch performed like somnambulists or hypnotic subjects in a trance and let the Blue and Gold warriors run around, over, under and through them, as someone once remarked, to the tune of six touchdowns and five goals therefrom, or 41 points in all.

[5][44] Ralph S. Davis of The Pittsburgh Press set the stage: "Forbes Field is the scene of real "major league" football today, the attraction being the gridiron battle between the Pitt Panthers and the big Orange team from Syracuse University.

"[48] "Due credit must be given an unknown and unhonored sub, (Carl) Miksch, for his quick presence of mind and deft scooping of the ball, like a bear gathering honey.

The 1917 Penn team, led by second year coach Bob Folwell, boasted five All-Americans: end-Heinie Miller; tackle-Joseph Strauss; guard-Herbert Dieter; center-Lud Wray and fullback-Joseph Berry.

Two touchdowns to one – 14 to 6 in this case – was the Pitt victory margin, earned in a hot and grueling battle on a dusty field, before 18,000 folks, with the temperature too high for comfort to either spectators or players.

"[56] The 1919 Pitt Owl Yearbook recapped the action: "The annual game with the University of Pennsylvania was played at Franklin Field and proved to be one of the real surprises of the season.

McLaren's terrific line plunging enabled Pitt to get within scoring distance just after the second half started and a forward pass, McCarter to Carlson, brought the first tally.

"[57] The Pittsburgh Post revealed the statistics: "Pitt had the upper hand in almost every department of the game, the sole exception being in total ground gained by forward pass.

[60] Ralph S. Davis of The Pittsburg Press set the tone: "In the local football realm today brings a sort of lull before the big storm of the season.

The Pitt Panthers, after their decisive victory over Old Penn a week ago, tackle the Westminster College eleven as a stepping stone to the Western Pennsylvania championship classic next Saturday with Washington and Jefferson.

The 1917 Red and Black eleven had four All-Americans on the roster: ends – Fred Heyman and Elmer "Bird" Carroll; halfback – L. William “Scrubby” McCreight and tackle – Pete Henry.

"[75] Richard Guy of The Gazette Times summed up the game thusly: "The University of Pittsburgh was four touchdowns better than Carnegie Institute of Technology in their annual football match yesterday afternoon at Forbes Field.

[76] On November 29, third year coach Dick Harlow brought his 5—3 Penn State Lions to Forbes Field for the annual Thanksgiving Day scuffle with the Pitt Panthers.

I believe the boys all realize they have a battle on their hands today, however, and will fight as they did against W. & J. Captain Carlson's absence from the game is regrettable, but I figure that young Allshouse will look after that position all right.

Substitutes appearing in the game for Pitt were Fred Henry, H. Clifford Carlson, Roscoe Gougler, Clyde Mitchell, William Miller, and Vance Allshouse.

[11] "The 1917 football season passes into history today, and as an attractive get-away event the patrons of the great college sport in Western Pennsylvania can avail themselves of a game out of the ordinary at Forbes Field.

"[84] The Philadelphia Inquirer reported: "The University of Pittsburgh second string men easily defeated a team of ex-college stars, representing the 320th Infantry of Camp Lee at Forbes Field this afternoon 30 to 0.

After subtracting expenses, including a war tax on tickets, "those in charge of the soldier's fund last night received a check for $4,341, to be added to the sum which is being raised for the army camp.

[90] "George McLaren, the sturdy fullback, was unanimously chosen captain of the University of Pittsburgh football team for next year at an informal dinner given the squad at the Schenley last evening.