Aviation, which made its initial bow at the University last year, progressed in fine manner – the team having been entered in the big intercollegiate meet.

On December 11 The Pittsburg Press reported:The announcement today by the University of Pittsburgh athletic authorities that a decision had been reached to have nothing further to do with Carnegie Tech in a sporting way was hardly unexpected.

[12] On September 7, 1920 Coach Warner and forty Panther football prospects arrived at Camp Hamilton for two and a half weeks of preseason training.

Former players - end Pat Herron, last year's captain Jimmie DeHart, guard Dale Seis and tackle Claude Thornhill - were on hand to assist Coach Warner.

[20] "Graduate Manager M. R. Glover, of the Covenantors, has been advertising this game extensively throughout western Pennsylvania, especially in the Beaver valley, and a crowd that will tax the capacity of the park is anticipated.

"[22] On game day, Harry Keck of The Gazette Times noted: "The Panther squad will leave for Beaver Falls in a body at 10:25 this morning, arriving before noon.

They are Harman, star tackle, who has an injured ankle; Anderson, halfback, who still is nursing hurts received in camp; and Dode Thomas, who is laid up with a cold.

"[23] The Gazette Times reported: "Glenn Warner's University of Pittsburgh eleven, minus his guidance, this afternoon inaugurated its 1920 football season by trimming Geneva College on the High School Field here, 47 to 0.

"[24] "The work of Herb McCracken stood out above that of his fellows in the few minutes he was in the game as he broke away from a scrimmage and ran 58 yards through a broken field for the first touchdown.

"[25] In addition to McCracken, Tom Davies scored two touchdowns and Mike Hartnett, John Anderson, Orville Hewitt and J. Franklin Byers each tallied one.

Substitutes appearing in the game for Pitt were Anderson, Bremen, Bowser, Byers, Clark, Clawson, Hartnett, Herkowitz, Horner, Kelly, Kramer, Laughran, Murdoch, Magarrall, Montieth, McCrory, Sacklowski, Simpson, Storer and Williams.

[26] Mountaineer coach Mont McIntire, in his fourth and final year at the helm, plus his 1920 squad arrived in Pittsburgh with a 1–0–1 record having tied Lehigh and beaten West Virginia Wesleyan.

Late in the quarter, "Davies punted to (Carl) Beck on West Virginia's 35-yard line, and he ran 65 yards for a touchdown through the whole Pitt team.

[32][30] The second road game for the Panthers was a train ride to Syracuse, NY to do battle with the strong Orangemen team that trampled them 24 to 3 the previous October.

[35] Harry Keck of The Gazette Times reported on the reception received at the train station when the Panthers arrived in Syracuse: "The most rabid 'welcome' a Pitt football team ever received on its jaunts to gridirons away from home greeted the Panther gridders when they set foot in Syracuse shortly after 9 o'clock tonight...A crowd of several thousand students and citizens had gathered at the depot long before the train pulled in and when Coach Glenn Warner and his huskies got out of their coach they were greeted with mingled cheers and jeers that echoed through the station shed.

In spite of threatening clouds with an early shower before the game began, close to 20,000 football lovers filed into the artistic Archbold Stadium to see Chick Meehan's big, fast eleven repeat the triumph of last year.

"[46] Coach Warner wrote in The Pittsburg Press: "To win Pitt must be on her toes every moment, and put up the hardest fight her players are capable of.

Twenty-two thousand persons witnessed the game and were treated to many a thrill and missed heartbeats as the close contest wore on until Pitt got the break that enabled it to turn threatening defeat into victory.

A succeeding punt by Flowers went only to the middle of the field and was run back by Red Byers, subbing for Davies at left halfback, to the 24-yard line.

Substitutes appearing in the game for Pitt were: John McCrory, Jack Sacklowski, Louis Markowitz, William Gourley, Fred Ewing, Frank Byers, Tom Holleran and Orville Hewitt.

The statement read:The break is due to a discovery on Pitt's part that three of the Georgia Tech stars had played more than four years of football allowed by the rules of first-class colleges and specified definitely in the articles of agreement between the two schools....We at once sent word to the team's manager that we desired a conference.

"[52] Prior to the game, Dean Friessell of the Dental School presented Coach Sutherland with a gold watch, a gift from his alma mater.

[54] "The game was played in the first real football weather of the year, and the tinge of autumn in the air helped to keep the fans on edge, but the contest was comparatively featureless.

Substitutes appearing in the game for Pitt were: R. M. Simpson, Adolph Herskowitz, Dode Thomas, Henry Magarrell, Mike Hartnett and John McLean.

[56] The last road game for the 1920 season was a train trip across the state to Philadelphia to do battle with the Penn Quakers, now led by ex-Georgia Tech coach John Heisman.

[59] Perry Lewis of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote: "The Penn football team lost another decision yesterday, but in losing proved itself to be greater than the University of Pittsburgh eleven, to which it succumbed by a score of 27 to 21.

Never did gridiron warriors representing the institution beyond the Schuylkill wage a more amazing and heartbreaking battle than that against Pitt on Franklin Field, and on no page in all the glorious football history of the Red and Blue is there recorded a more inspiring exhibition of fighting spirit than that displayed by the sons of Father Penn yesterday.

"[61] The Pitt Owl confirmed: "On November 6, Tommy Davies, Pittsburgh's wonder man, defeated the University of Pennsylvania in one of the most thrilling grid battles ever staged at Franklin Field.

[71] The State lineup boasted four 1920 All-American mentions: halfbacks - Charley Way and Hinkey Haines; and guards – Percy W. Griffiths and Harold Hess.

But, feeding up on smaller victims last fall, he went into his annual tussle with the Panther a rejuvenated jungle king, and tore the Warner-kept beast to pieces.