Jan 30, 2023 2 min read

ON THIS DATE

Feb. 1

1913 – Jim Thorpe, star of the 1912 Olympics, signs to play baseball with the New York Giants.

1968 – Vince Lombardi, who guided Green Bay to five NFL championships and two Super Bowl victories, resigns as the Packers’ head coach after nine seasons.

1979 – Rod Wheeler scores 24 points as Waynesburg College breaks open a close game late in the first half and cruises to a 93-71 victory over California State at College Gym.

1979 – Pitt gets 23 points and 13 rebounds from Sam Clancy and overcomes a five-point halftime deficit to beat Duquesne 89-83 before 10,205 at the Civic Arena. The Panthers score the game’s final eight points.

1980 – Fairchance-Georges, with West Virginia recruit Mike King, survives Carmichaels’ slow-down tactics and defeats the host Mikes, 25-17. Carmichaels holds the basketball for six-and-a-half minutes at one stretch during the third quarter.

1983 – Clyde Vaughn and Andre Williams each score 24 points as Pitt upsets fifth-ranked St. John’s, 72-71

1992 – Lara Thornton scores 24 points as California University’s women’s basketball team gives head coach Paul Flores his 100th win by upsetting Edinboro 86-82 at Hamer Hall. Edinboro enters the game ranked No. 17 in NCAA Division II.

1999 – Ralph Willard announces he will resign at the end of the season as Pitt’s basketball coach. Willard, in his fifth year with the Panthers, says media speculation about his job security and potential coaching replacements have damaged his ability to recruit.

2006 – The Pittsburgh Xplosion of the Continental Basketball Association crushes the Ohio Aviators 192-92.

2009 – Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh offense end a Super Bowl of incredible swings with a final-minute touchdown for a historic victory, 27-23, over the Arizona Cardinals. Santonio Holmes makes a brilliant 6-yard catch deep in the right corner of the end zone with 35 seconds remaining, lifting the Steelers to a record-setting sixth Super Bowl win.