Sep 15, 2023 3 min read

ON THIS DATE

Sept. 16

1960 – Bob Riggle runs for two scores and throws a touchdown pass to Ted Vactor as Wash High evens its record at 1-1 with an 18-0 victory over Connellsville.

1971 – Peters Township repeats as the team champion and Ringgold sophomore Melvin Boyd is the individual winner at the 6th Annual Washington County Coaches Cross County Meet. Boyd is the first underclassmen to win the individual title.

1972 – Jim Day’s one-yard touchdown runs with 7:27 left caps Wash High’s comeback from a 12-point deficit and defeats visiting New Brighton 24-20. Washington’s Guy Montecalvo rushes for 162 yards, including a 13-yard TD, on 33 carries.

1975 – Pittsburgh second baseman Rennie Stennett becomes the 20th player in the 20th century to collect seven hits in a game. The second baseman goes 7-for-7 with two doubles, a triple and five runs scored as the Pirates defeat the Chicago Cubs, 22-0, at Wrigley Field. Three of Stennett’s hits come off Canonsburg native Tom Dettore.

1978 – Waynesburg College, ranked No. 4 in the NAIA, uses two field goals by Kent Ewell and a three-yard TD pass from Larry Cernansky to Jon Culp to defeat California State, 12-0.

1994 – McGuffey, the top-ranked WPIAL football team in Class AAA, rolls up 550 total yards and scores touchdowns on four of its first seven offensive plays en route to a 41-21 victory over fourth-ranked Mt. Pleasant. Brett Shriver rushes for 178 yards and two touchdowns on only eight carries.

Sept. 17

1961 – Allen Green kicks a 27-yard field goal with one second remaining to give the Dallas Cowboys a 27-24 victory over the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers. It’s the Cowboys’ first win as a member of the NFL.

1965 – Bob Mavrich scores three touchdowns, including two in the fourth quarter, as Canon-McMillan High School defeats visiting Braddock, 20-7.

1973 – The Pittsburgh Triangles of the 16-team World Team Tennis, sign three-time Grand Slam champion Evonne Goolagong. The 22-year-old Goolagong has won singles titles at Wimbledon, the French Open and United States Open.

1982 – John Hairston rushes for 195 yards and two touchdowns as Trinity ends a 12-game losing streak with a 35-7 victory over Southmoreland at College Field.

1982 – Mapletown (1-1-1) ends a 20-game winless streak with a 12-7 victory over German Township. Ed Pekar throws two touchdown passes for the Maples.

1987 – Jaguar Spur, with driver Dick Stillings, wins The Little Brown Jug, the second leg of pacing Triple Crown, at the Delaware (Ohio) County Fairgrounds.

1991 – Waynesburg High School hires Jim Hoy as its boys basketball coach. Hoy spent the last two years as head coach at Freedom in Beaver County. He repalces Glenn Kyle, who resigned after 10 years with the Raiders to become an assistant at California University.

1996 – Jim Leyland informs the Pittsburgh Pirates that he will resign at the end of the season, his 11th as the team’s manager.

2011 – Pitt and Syracuse, both longtime members of the Big East Conference, apply for membership in the Atlantic Coast Conference.