On this date
Aug. 29
1954 – After three consecutive losses in exhibition games, Joe Bach resigns as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He is replaced by Walt Kiesling.
1980 – Quarterback Rick Zabrida scores two touchdowns and Ed Woods rushes for 146 yards as Beth-Center defeats Carmichaels, 13-0, in the season-opening high school football game.
1986 – Bob Strope passes for 186 yards and two scores, and Boyd Wass runs for 114 yards and one touchdown, as McGuffey opens the high school football season with a 27-13 victory over Apollo-Ridge.
1991 – California University’s summer-long search for an athletic director ends with the hiring of Dr. Thomas Pucci, who spent the last four years as AD at South Carolina-Spartanburg. Pucci also was the men’s tennis coach at the University of Arkansas for 10 years.
1995 – Pittsburgh’s Paul Wagner, leading the National League in losses, comes within one strike of pitching perhaps the most unlikely no-hitter in major league history, finishing with a one-hitter as the Pirates beat the Colorado Rockies, 4-0, at Three Rivers Stadium. Only Andres Galarraga’s slow-rolling single on a 3-2, two-out pitch in the ninth inning keeps the league’s least successful starter from baseball immortality.
2012 – The NFL announces that it will use replacement officials for its season-opening week of games. The NFL’s Referee’s Association has been locked out since June.