eleven. The Daily Post described the scene:"In what was probably the most spectacular mud-fest ever witnessed at Forbes Field, the University of Pittsburgh football team wallowed through four long, slimy periods yesterday afternoon to a decisive victory over Fred Crolius's Villa Nova eleven...The light rain that was falling when the game commenced became a downpour before the play had progressed very far, and in spite of the fact that the Pitt players changed uniforms between halves, there was not a man on the field that could have been recognized by any but his best friends after the first two or three scrimmages." The game started out as a punting duel, until Villanova halfback Forst fumbled a punt and Pitt recovered on the Nova forty-five-yard line. Roy Kernohan was "sent through center for eleven yards." William Connelly, who got the start at quarterback, "plowed through the same opening" and bulled his way into the end zone dragging Wildcat quarterback Skelton with him. Connelly was injured on the play and replaced by Tillie Dewar. Ralph Galvin converted the point after and Pitt led 6 to 0. Dewar returned the kick off sixty yards to the Villanova forty-eight-yard line. The Pitt offense moved the ball but turned it over on an onside kick on the eight-yard line. Villanova punted and Ralph Galvin missed a thirty-eight yard field goal attempt to end the first quarter. Early in the second quarter, Henry Blair blocked a Villanova punt and Perry Graves, "who was in the right spot, picked it up and ran the distance for a touchdown." Galvin converted the goal after and Pitt led 12 to 0 at half time. The punting duel dominated the second half. Both coaches made numerous substitutions. "Galvin and Curley of Villanova were detected exchanging punches and were sent from the game." Dewar missed a field goal and made one that was nullified due to a penalty. Pitt hung on and won 12–0. Pitt and Villanova would not play again until 1998. The Pitt lineup for the game against Villanova was Perry Graves (left end), Henry Blair and Enoch Pratt (left tackle), William Leahy (left guard), Ralph Galvin and John Cummins (center), Wayne Smith and George Gehlert (right guard), James Stevenson (right tackle), Hube Wagner and Bowman Ashe (right end), William Connelly and Tillie Dewar (quarterback), George Brown and S.V. Dillon (left halfback), Charles Quailey (right halfback), and Roy Kernohan