George W. Shusler of The Pittsburg Press was impressed: "Glenn Warner's 11-cylinder steam roller, otherwise known as the Pitt football team, steamed all over Forbes Field yesterday afternoon, with the result that Syracuse University's football team was crushed to the tune of 28 to 0. The game was fairly full of spectacular playing and each score was the result of splendid teamwork on the part of the Panther players. You have to hand it to "Pop" Warner, for no matter how tough the opposition, the Pitt team appears just right, as good as they have to be and pointed to the minute. For a coach to have a world-beating eleven robbed of a flock of stars by graduation and enlistment and turn in and build up with green material, build it up to a point that it can just about take the measure of any team that it is stacked up against, is worthy of all the commendation possible."
