big seven tournament
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SOONER SCOREBOARD
Record to date: W21L3 3; 6k 65 Baylor 55 3; h7 Rice 62;
69 Vanderbilt 76; 89 Ohio State 68; 69 Arkansas 59
Returning lettermen - (i) - “a Abbey, f; 4eRoy Bacher,c;
Bob Burr, g; Jimuy Peck, g
finish
(1955 Big Seven £kiakah - 7th , l- a gamess 3-18
Previous tournament see - 19.6 he 19K 7— yes 39L.8—=

[sts 1949 - 2na; 1950- oo 1951- fens 1952= Sens 1953- Qnd;-1955-
pth w25 B12 Pet . 556 Ante a

Remaining pre-tournament games = Dec. 20 Okla homa A & M at

Norman; Dece 23 Illinois at Urbana

First round opponent + Colorado, 7:30 pem. Tue sd ay
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Klahoma, the tvadttawat upset team of the Big Seven
tournament, again is poised in a prime position to bring off a form
reversal when the tenth annual affair opens fusudayvx a four-day run
Tuesday in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium

The Sooners, re-grouping under Doyle barrack, an in-
tenseHss young coach fxumvarwho played for arch-rival Oklahoma A & M,
are palired against Colorado in the meet's tipoff game at 7:30 pete
Tuesday.

Colorado is the team Oklahome ambushed, ¥¥3Vivx 73-71,
in an overtime first-roander last yeare The significance of thig
conquest can be best understood by this two-edged fact.... CU went on
to win the conference while Oklahoma was dead last atxlie®@1x 1-11, The
upset of the Herd was one of only three games the Sooners won last year
in their final season under Bruce Drake.

In 1949 OU toppled Kansas State, sms and eventual
eonference tri-champion in the £xtix league season following, 56*§@ This

two was a first-round affair, Only last last second 6081 by the Wildcats: