2017 is the 75th anniversary of Ohio State's first national championship season. To honor the achievement, this series will post articles from the Columbus Citizen Journal on the day they ran in 1942.

When the Buckeyes football team charges out on the field to meet the Pitt Panthers on Saturday afternoon it'll be meeting a team that has pointed for this game all season and which will really be out for blood.

"We're due for a good game some time this year," said Coach Charley Bowser earlier this week, "So we might as well have it this Saturday." And the squad took him at his word. The workouts in the Pitt camp this week have been carried on with more fire and enthusiasm than at any other time this season.

"Wild Bill" Dutton, the wheelhorse of the Pitt team is showing better form than he has all season, and that's saying a lot.

Against six opponents so far, Pitt has averaged 227 yards per game, a total of 1362 yards. Dutton has personally accounted for 812 yards of that total, 322 yards on 19 completed passes in 52 attempts, and the other 490 yards in 137 trips with the ball, for an average of 3.58 yards per try.

If Ohio State stops Dutton, the Buckeyes should stop Pitt.

Star Kicker

But that's not all. In addition, Dutton has done the kicking and has an average of over 37 yards per punt, counting two blocked kicks and several that have traveled over the goal line. He has booted a couple of quick-kicks that traveled over 70 yards.

Yeah, but can Dutton do this?

Pitt will be somewhat hampered for this week by injuries to three of the usual starters. Joe Salvucci and Bill Kyle, the right end and right tackle respectively, will be out of action, while Tony Dimatteo has a pulled leg muscle and had not returned to his right halfback position for the workout last night. Johnny Baker will be at right tackle, Marty Rosepink will start at end, and Jackie Stetler will fill in at the halfback position.

Weak Against Passes

The chief defensive weakness of the Pitt team appears to be against passes. Since the Minnesota game, the season's opener for the Panthers, only one team has cored by running the ball and that was Duke. The last five opponents have had to use passes, pass interceptions, or running back kickoffs to score their points. One team went all the way with a kickoff. Carnegie Tech racked up its lone score on a pass interception, and all the others have had to take to the airways to score.

Should be a big day for end Bob Shaw as he is the only Buckeye to record a receiving touchdown to this point of the '42 season.

Meantime, the Bucks were waiting and ready for the invasion Coach Paul Brown gave a final check to both his offense and defense last night as the team worked through a light rain blown across the practice field by a sharp, chill wind.

The entire team showed the snap and pep which it displayed in early-season games but which appeared lost just before the trek to Wisconsin. Despite the conflict with the elements, the workout was quick and good.

The probable starting lineups:

Probable Starting Lineups

OHIO STATE			POS.			PITTSBURGH
DON STEINBERG			LE			MIKE SOTAK
DON McCAFFERTY			LT			JACK DURLAHAN
HAL DEAN			LG			BILL DILLON
BILL VICKROY			C			GEORGE ALLSHOUSE
LIN HOUSTON			RG			VINCE ANTOBELLI
BOB SHAW			RE			MARTY ROSEPINK
GEORGE LYNN			QB			WALTER WEST
PAUL SARRINGHAUS			LH			BILL DUTTON
LES HORVATH			RH			JACKIE STETLER
GENE FEKETE			FB			FRANK SAKTA

While it seems there has been a lot of squawking about football officiating this fall, it is doubtful if there has been any more than the usual amount.

The "we wuz robbed" motif seems to be almost as much a part of football as of baseball and boxing.

It's too bad that has to be true.

Theoretically one of the purposes of college athletic competition is to teach sportsmanship. Sportsmanship involves losing like a gentleman as well as winning like one.

Every time one team wins another has to lose. If the loser constantly blames his defeat onto errors on the part of the officials the net result is falling far short of the ideal of sportsmanship. 

Friendly golf play seems to come as close to the ideal of sportsmanship as any athletic competition.

There are no referees or umpires or field judges in friendly golf. A golfer calls his own score. It's part of the code that the opponent doesn't question that score.

Of course if an opponent consistently undercalls his score a golfer will know it. An experienced golfer can go back over the play on a hole and account every stroke made by each member of the foursome.

If a golfer undercalls once or twice in a round he's given the benefit of the doubt. But if it happens often the remedy is applied.

No charges are made. There are no public arguments. The offending golfer just finds it hard to find playing companions. Perhaps he wonders why. Perhaps he knows. 

Of course you couldn't apply that system to the actual playing of a football game. There are too many involuntary and unconscious rule violations to play the game without officials.

But I believe it could apply to the relationship between competing schools. If an opposing school consistently puts a roughing, ruleshading team on the field the remedy is there and easily applicable. Just quit playing that school.

Ohio State is more fortunate than most schools in that  respect. With football drawing in Columbus as it does Ohio State schedule-makers can take their choice in picking opponents and get the cream of the crop.

Schools in smaller towns like Purdue, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin can't do that. They have to go where they can draw crowds if there is enough in the athletic treasury to keep athletics going. 

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