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ON THIS DATE
Oct. 7
1916 – Georgia Tech beats Cumberland 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in history.
1950 – The Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns meet for the first time. The Browns win, 30-17, at Forbes Field.
1954 – Tom Peterson caps a 40-yard drive midway through the fourth quarter with a 16-yard run around right end as undefeated and untied Avella High School wins at Hickory, 6-0.
1981 – Trinity defeats Peters Township 6-2 in boys soccer. Trinity’s Mike Ault scores three goals, bringing his season total to 57, which breaks the WPIAL record.
1985 – Chuck Tanner is fired after nine seasons as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1988 – Bentworth’s John Stout completes a an 18-yard pass to Ray Stein, who laterals to Brian Belski, who covers the final 25 yards for a touchdown late in the first half and the Bearcats defeat previously undefeated McGuffey 7-6 in a Century Conference game.
2005 – West Greene’s Cody Miller rushes for 312 yards and four touchdowns on 35 carries, and throws a 7-yard touchdown pass, as the Pioneers defeat Frazier, 42-33.
2011 – Nick Santoyo catches a 10-yard touchdown pass from Tyler Bowman, and Tom Seddon boots the extra point, to give Jefferson-Morgan a 42-41 overtime victory over Carmichaels.
2012 – Shaun Suisham kicks a 34-yard field goal as time expires, giving the Pittsburgh Steelers a 16-14 win over Philadelphia.
2013 – Michael Wacha takes a no-hitter into the eighth inning and the St. Louis Cardinals avoid elimination and even the National League Division Series with a 2-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game 4 at PNC Park.
2015 – Jake Arrieta allowed four hits in nine dominant innings and the Chicago Cubs rolled to a 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL wild-card game.
Oct. 8
1932 – Rab Currie of Monessen runs 45 yards with a lateral to the Penn State one-yard line late in the fourth quarter, setting up Waynesburg College’s game-winning touchdown as the Yellow Jackets defeat host Penn State 7-6. It’s the second win in two years for Waynesburg over Penn State.
1969 – Fort Cherry High School’s golf team becomes the first undefeated and untied sports team in school history as it finishes the regular season with a win over Avella. The Rangers’ Brad Danjou shoots 72 and sets a course record for Meadowbrook Golf Club with a 32 on the back nine.
1970 – The Trinity Area School Board promotes Gaynor Stoner to head varsity boys basketball coach. Stoner had been the Hillers’ assistant coach for one year.
1976 – Craig Conklin scores on a 48-yard run on the game’s opening possession and undefeated Waynesburg thwarts two second-half scoring threats from visiting Chartiers-Houston to blank the Bucs, 8-0.
1979 – Franco Harris scores on a 17-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, and Rocky Bleier rambles 70 yards for a score in the fourth quarter as the Pittsburgh Steelers take sole possession of first place in the AFC Central Division with a 51-35 victory at Cleveland.
1982 – The Hartford Whalers’ Blaine Stoughton is suspended for eight games by the NHL for cross-checking the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Paul Baxter in the face.
1999 – Fort Cherry High School’s Mike Vernillo becomes the WPIAL’s all-time rushing leader by gaining 195 yards, including touchdowns of 10 and 48 yards, in the Rangers’ 43-6 win at Cornell. Vernillo finishes the game with 6,616 career yards to pass Penn Trafford’s Matt Gavrish.
2001 – Burgettstown’s David Vallina makes a six-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff to defeat Upper St. Clair’s Mark Cimarolli and win his second straight WPIAL golf championship at Cedarbrook Golf Course.