Pittsburgh Skyline

This photo, taken in 1916, demonstrates the degree to which the Administration Building (on the right), sitting atop Boyd's Hill and crowned with its elaborate cupola, dominated the Pittsburgh skyline.

Football 1919

Collegiate football was played by very loose rules in the early 1900s. In 1903, so many "Hillmen" were injured in one game that President Father Hehir banished varsity football the next season. But students continued to field intramural teams. Shown here is a 1919 football team. Art Rooney, later to rise to the fame with the Pittsburgh Steelers, is in the second row, sixth man from the left. His brother Dan Rooney is in the same row, second from left.

Baseball Team 1922

Baseball, the star of Duquesne's crown before World War I, was scarcely played after 1918. Travel costs and a shrinking number of teams to play led the university to officially drop it from the sports program in 1926. Baseball did not return as an intercollegiate sport until 1948. This team reflects the Holy Ghost fathers' ideal mixture of spirituality and sports; out of these 13 players, 6 entered the priesthood. Middle row, first on the left, is Father Eugene McGuigan, first athletic director for Duquesne (1920-23). Father Mac coached baseball, football, and basketball. First row, on the right, is Samuel Weiss. Weiss attended Duquesne on one of President Hehir's "informal scholarship'; later, as Judge Weiss he generously supported the university.

WDUQ

Radio was popular on the Bluff almost from its beginnings, and inevitably, Duquesne had the first collegiate radio station in Pittsburgh, which was named, appropriately, WDUQ. Establishing the new radio station meant installing two radio studios on the second floor of Old Main.

The self-named "Voice of Education in Pittsburgh" soon became the voice of Duquesne, and an outlet for everything from quiz shows to football games.



 

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