[14] The Athletic Department added two former Pitt players to the organization - Pat Herron was named assistant coach and Dr. J. Huber Wagner was appointed team physician.

Walter Ritchie, 1904 Pitt quarterback, and Lone Star Dietz, the famous Carlisle Indian (1909-1912), assisted Coach Warner the opening week of camp.

"The Westerners played good football against Penn State last fall and with new coach Fred Dawson are expected to put up a stern battle here.

All in all, local fans should see some tip-top football in the home games, and there is no reason why the season should not be one of the biggest ever, so far as crowds go, as well as one of the most successful playing campaigns in the Panthers history.

The Westinghouse Co. has made wonderful strides in the wireless field ion broadcasting information, entertainments and athletics the past year.

Last winter, when the Pitt basketball team played at Motor Square Garden, the results were received as far north as Toronto, Can., as far west as Nebraska, as far south as the Gulf of Mexico, and east to the Atlantic coast.

They then hopped aboard the P.& R. Railroad car and arrived in Allentown around 9:30 a.m. A worried Coach Warner held practice at the Lehigh Valley Country Club Friday afternoon.

"[31] The Morning Call in Allentown reported: "The bell on old South College rang out the tidings of Lafayette's greatest football triumph in the last decade yesterday afternoon when the Maroon team crushed mighty Pitt by the score of 6–0.

Fifteen thousand fans jammed historic March Stadium to witness the battle between these two gridiron juggernauts which was decided by a lone touchdown by 'Bots' Brunner in the first quarter of play."

Substitutes appearing in the game for Pitt were Fred Peters, Tom Davies, Leon Kelly, Nick Colonna and J. Charles Winterburn.

[35] The New York Times praised the Mountaineers: "The West Virginia University football team showed a very much improved style of attack built up under the tuition of Fatty Spears when they lined up against Glenn Warner's Pittsburgh Panthers at Forbes Field today and, although the visitors were beaten by the score of 21–13, they gave one of the best exhibitions of straight football and spectacular plays ever seen in this city.

Substitutes appearing in the game for Pitt were John Miller, Edmund Fredette, James Clark, Nick Shuler, Mike Hartrnett and Charles Williams.

[6] As noted above Harold W. Arlin, a Westinghouse engineer, broadcast this game over the KDKA radio station from his box seat at Forbes Field.

[39] "However, it is said that three or four of the Ohioan's best players were not available for that contest...Boyd Chambers has a lot of good material, but he has been working slowly with it, pointing his team especially for the Pitt encounter.

[42][44] The 1921 Syracuse eleven led by second year coach Chick Meehan visited Forbes Field for the second time in the series short history.

The second team played the fourth stanza and after a sustained drive Nick Colonna was "pushed over from the one" and Tom Holleran kicked the goal to end the scoring.

The Quakers' record was 4–0–1,[53] but coach Heisman sequestered his players at Whitemarsh Country Club for secret practice time on Thursday and Friday to prepare for the Pittsburgh eleven.

[55] "The Pitt team is in good condition and Warner is confident that his men are properly keyed up, and will exhibit the same fighting spirit they showed against Syracuse.

"[56] The Philadelphia Inquirer reported: "The first big game on Penn's football schedule ended in a Red and Blue disaster on Franklin Field yesterday, when the huskies from the University of Pittsburgh rode rough-shod to a 28 to 0 victory.

The Red and Blue warriors fought gallantly, but they were outclassed...Pitt's powerful line-smashing backs bowled over the Quakers as though they were pygmies, and there seemed no way in which the flashy Davies and Anderson could be checked in their dashes around the ends.

[10] "Fit physically to the point of perfection," the Nebraska Cornhuskers arrived in the Smokey City to meet the Pitt Panthers for the first time on the gridiron.

[58] First year coach Fred Dawson's team had a 3–1 record, the only blemish being a 7 to 0 loss to 1920 National Champ Notre Dame, and the Huskers had outscored their opposition 140–7.

"[62] Cy Sherman of The Lincoln Sunday Star gloated: "Touted as the 'wonder' team of the eastern realm by virtue of recent triumphs over Syracuse and Penn, the Panthers met their masters in the mighty Cornhuskers, who outplayed, outmaneuvered and outfought the proteges of Coach Glenn Warner whipping them by a much more decisive margin than is indicated by the final count of 10 to 0."

"While W. & J. will be the 'underdog' in the annual clash, the supporters of the Presidents will be at Forbes Field in the same numbers as in former years filled with the hope that their favorites will be able to arise to the occasion and surprise Warner and his band of Panthers.

[70] Max E. Hannum of The Pittsburgh Press reported: "W. & J. tasted Panther meat for the first time in seven years yesterday afternoon at Forbes Field, and the Blue and Gold was trailed in the mud by the score of 7 to 0.

"[73] Pitt had just lost two straight games for the first time under head coach Glenn Warner and Penn State was unbeaten and possibly a victory away from an Eastern or National title.

Tackle Leon Kelly, fullback Nick Colonna, guard Fred Peters and end Lloyd Jordan were in the starting lineup.

Perry Lewis of The Philadelphia Inquirer waxed poetic: "The lion of Nittany Mountain, roving the country, seeking whom it might devour, stalked into the rain-soaked lair of the Panther of Pater Pitt this Thanksgiving Day.

Penn State was unable to score, and so was Pitt, but that grim battle, fought in mire ankle deep, will never be forgotten by the 34,000 football mad fans who braved the elements to seek a seat in the jammed stands.

The following were awarded varsity football letters: Tom Davies, Jack Sack, John McLean, John Anderson, Lloyd Jordan, John Clark, Charles Winterburn, Mike Hartnett, Charles Bowser, Herb Stein, Frank Williams, Orville Hewitt, Leon Kelly, Edmund Fredette, Charles Williams, Harvey Hartman, Harry Seidelson, Tom Holleran, Fred Ewing, Fred Peters, Nick Shuler and Nick Colonna and Manager Laurence Klinestiver.