Early agate
ON THIS DATE
Nov. 22
1941 – Jefferson Township, under coach Ben Parker, defeats South Huntingdon 32-12 in the championship game of the Mid-Mon Valley Conference at Charleroi. The Jeffs score touchdowns on each of their first two offensive plays.
1942 – Pittsburgh defeats the Chicago Cardinals 19-3 to clinch the Steelers’ first winning season in team history.
1959 – Quarterback Bobby Layne leads a six-play, 83-yard scoring drive that ends with his 17-yard touchdown pass to Gern Nagler with 40 seconds left as the Pittsburgh Steelers win 21-20 at Cleveland, knocking the Browns out of first place in the NFL’s Eastern Conference.
1972 – The Pittsburgh Penguins set an NHL record by getting five goals from five different players in a span of 2:07 in a 10-4 victory over the St. Louis Blues.
1975 – Steve Geise runs 29 yards for the game-winning touchdown with 8:18 left in the game and Pitt’s Carson Long misses three field-goal tries in the final five minutes as Sugar Bowl-bound Penn State defeats Pitt 7-6 at Three Rivers Stadium.
1980 – Former California State College national wrestling champion Bill DePaoli wins his first international title by pinning Mark Jodoin to win the 126-pound title at the Canadian Open in Toronto.
1986 – Dana Zajicek scores 27 points, including two pivotal three-point field goals late in the game, as California University edges Shippensburg 81-75 in the debut of Vulcans coach Jim Boone.
1988 – On his 22nd birthday, Waynesburg College’s Darrin Walls scores 28 points in an 86-77 victory over West Virginia State to become the Yellow Jackets’ all-time scoring leader.
2003 – Bridgewater (Va.) overcomes a 17-point halftime deficit to defeat visiting Waynesburg 28-24 in the Yellow Jackets’ first NCAA Division III football playoff game. Waynesburg’s Jeff Dumm completes 21 of 47 passes for 295 yards and two scores but his incomplete pass on fourth-and-goal ends the game.