The 1921 West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh football game was a

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game between the West Virginia Mountaineers and the Pittsburgh Panthers played on October 8, 1921. It was the 17th meeting of the

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, a rivalry game between the two programs. The game was played at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh won the game 21–13, after West Virginia's George Hill returned a kick-off for a touchdown on the final play of the game. The game was broadcast on radio station KDKA by Westinghouse engineer

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, and was that station's first live radio play-by-play broadcast of a

game.

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