My Fellow Pitt Fans – I’m going to try to post up one of these “look back” articles, with an embedded audio recording of a dramatic reading of some articles and other media bits, on a weekly basis. If you have ever heard of, or read, the really good coffee table book “The Pitt Football Vault” then you know that is is just full of every detail imaginable pertaining to our football history and traditions. It was written by the Post-Gazette’s Sam Sciullo Jr and covers from the 1890s through the 2007 season.
What I’ll try to do is start at the beginning of our program’s history and do one or two pieces on each decade, interspersed with other biographical pieces on some of our superstar players….