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ON THIS DATE
Jan. 11
1961 – Two free throws in the closing seconds by by Ernie Chadderton – his only points of the game – give Waynesburg College a 61-60 victory over visiting California State.
1970 – The AFL wins its second straight Super Bowl as the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 behind Len Dawson’s superb quarterbacking and Jan Stenerud’s three field goals.
1979 – Charleroi High School girls basketball player Debbie Fallenstein scores 21 points, including her 1,000th career point, in the Cougars’ 76-63 victory over Uniontown.
1980 – Ray Natili scores 40 points, leading Immaculate Conception to a 98-40 rout of South Park. Natili makes 14 of 18 shots from the field and 12 of 16 free throws.
1987 – John Elway drives Denver 98 yards for a game-tying touchdown, a five-yard pass to Mark Jackson with 31 seconds left, to force overtime in the Broncos’ 23-20 playoff victory over the Cleveland Browns.
1993 – Trinity High School’s wrestling team dominates Brownsville 67-6 to give Hillers coach John Abajace his 200th career victory.
1996 – Penn State defeats Minnesota 76-61 in the inaugural basketball game at the Bryce Jordan Center.
1999 – Ed Woods is hired as head football coach at his alma mater, Beth-Center High School.
1999 – McDonald native Marty Schottenheimer resigns as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. Schottenheimer’s .636 winning percentage is the best in Chiefs history.
2010 – Johnna McGivern makes a tiebreaking jump shot in overtime and Beka Bellhy makes two crucial free throws as Fort Cherry remains undefeated in Section 2-A girls basketball with a 42-41 win over Chartiers-Houston.
2013 – Seth Petras scores six of his 15 points in the third overtime, helping Canon-McMillan to an 82-77 win over Mt. Lebanon in a Section 4-AAAA basketball game. Brett Haney leads the Big Macs with a game-high 25 points.
2015 – Green Bay rallies from an 8-point deficit as Aaron Rodgers throws two second-half touchdowns to beat Dallas 26-21 in an NFC divisional-round playoff. The Packers, helped immensely by a video reversal with 4:06 remaining, go undefeated at Lambeau Field this season. Dez Bryant’s leaping catch at the Packers 1 on fourth-and-2 is reversed by referee Gene Steratore after Green Bay challenges. Instead of first-and-goal for Dallas, the ball goes to the Packers.