_ struck. in those,early minutes :of- the

é 5 : 6.

the, Oklahomans off their feet. Kansast attack was devastating. She was ploying

far over her head. There was fury in her charge and it scemed that she was fast
paving her road to glory and to another Big Six crown. Bill ‘cohnson, Ted: O'Leary,

..» Lee Page, Elmer Schaake, ‘and Dick Viells ripped and crashed through the Oklahoma
“defense, which was giving all it had.to stem this withering assault that had

piled up a 20 to 6 lead-at the half.

At the end-of the half, radio reports announced that Kansas State had

“won at Manhattan, So the ‘next 30 minutes would seo Kansas ond Oklahoma fighting

for an, undisputed crown--with Kansas enjoying.a 14-point leads

So long as thera are playing minutes ‘left, Oklahoma is never defeated.
Undaunted by their handicap, ‘the Oklahome Sooners swore that they wovld still

_make a game out-of it. «as Oklahoma unleashed an attack wii.ch whittled down the
one-sided Kansas advantage, silence fell ovér the confident Kansas crowd. Okle-

home had scored 10-points in the first 4 ‘minutes “of the last half, without >

Kansas tallying. © Score, Kansas* 20-“Cklahoma 16.

So the championship still remained disputed. But the tornado which
, game had devastated too much territory to

be regainéd quickly, ‘It was only the psychis stimulus generated by the rare
circumstances precoding this game that-stayed the desperate assaults of these
superb and fighting Oklahomans. Unfortunately for thom, they met Kansas on a
night when a sensational climax to a season's play heightened Kansas' fighting
morales ; oe . : oe

Kerisad won in a driving finish 31-27, After the game, Bill:said, “Doc,
I can still-hear the droning of that plane in my cars." To this I replied,
“ts there any wonder, Bill? After your two charging rides? °One into the clouds

‘and the other to Victory.”

I was wondering, too, although I didn't say it, if, over and above all

_.. the din and. confusion of ‘that great. crowd and over and above that persistent
droning of the plane in-his ears, Bill, at times during ‘the gome, had not seen

a stalwart though agéd pioneer moving with hin-from place to place and whisper~
Tg thet.o1) Wes "Woaes Oe pba ¢? foot AL _—

PD J. Alan Coogan was a student reperter at K.U. for the Kansas City Jeurnal-Post

at that time. Early in the day he hadconfidentially wired Bill Johnson at his

“home asking if he were going to fly up.’ Alan was planning a scoop on the cther

papers, as the air was charged with rumors. Fortunately, Bill. ‘had the presence

..of mind'to reply in the negative. Later, as a newspaper man, Alan Coogan scooped

the entire newspaper: world in the Huey Long assassincotion. “He was on the spot

when the firing took places He is now:Direector in Brazil of the United Press
Associations. == ~ —oenee itd pie ronns

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__... These stimulating athletic activities of college days are always en-
shrined in the hearts of loyal Jayhowker alwmi, just as*aye the heroic and
valorovs acts of our fighting men of the armed forces imperishably enshrined
in the hearts of. our countrymen. And, just to think, five or six years ago our
people said that ‘our youth cre too soft. ‘They dre not tough etough. What a
metamorphosis! Our youth have proved that thoy can take it, and they can dish
it out! This is’ evidenced by “the letters that I receive in every mail from our
boys aver there,.and over, there. MiFogols Bs evo fued sok etd

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Big Otto Sehnellbacher, Box 711, Amarillo, Texas, is in the B-29 train-

“ing, and ‘says that he has still about two’nonths to go ‘befcre he flies west and

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