GEO. W. OLINGER DENVER, COLORADO June 11, 1945 Mr. Forrest C. Allen c/o University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Rotarian Allen: It pleased me very much to receive your letter of June 6, and I thank you for it. I feel that it is a real compliment if any word that I have passed on to you had a value then or now. The lines which you quote have been a life-long conviction of mine and I have had many personal proofs that this formula works. The Highlander program has been a great adventure to me personally. All my life I have had a great passion for youth and out of this experience has come some of the finest friendships of my life. Years ago I founded the Highlander Boys! Organization whose member- ship today totals some 11,000, and about 7,000 of this number are in the armed forces. From the very beginning, it was my custom to enclose in every letter a card of some helpful thought or encourage- ment. The little packets sent represent a group of these cards, planted here and there in the hope that one or more of them occa- sionally may represent a stepping stone to victorious living. In closing, may I say that if you feel that any of the cards or any additional packets would be of practical value to any of your friends or boys, if you would send me their names and addresses, I would consider it a privilege to send them packets. The sunset picture to which you refer was one that I took at Hi Hume about 300 miles north of Vancouver in British Columbia-- a paradise for sunsets. For years I have had a lake about one- hundred miles from Denver and I am enclosing to you a little snap of it. If sometime this summer you would like to get away from the heat of Kansas into the cool of Colorado, why not come over and I will show you the most beautiful spot in our mountains-- Black Lake. Rotarily yours, GWo/dy Enc. June 6, 1945. \ Mr. George We cite. | . 2600 Sisteanth Ste, : Denver ll, Cole. Dear Rotewien Oling er: In writing to Gerald House, the wibenhdacs of our Lawrence Rotary Club, I recalled an incident about two weeks ago when I spoke to the thirty Jimior Rotarians at Russell, xansas. The Rotary Club thexe was giving them their amual banquet and they asked me to go out to speak to the boys. ., Prior to my going} I was rummaging through some old files of mine and produced the letter you had written mo on November 18, 1929, on my birthday. I used the socond paragraph of yow letter aga text. It reads as follows: "When I was a boy, there was a man who made a most vivid impression on my life and taught me then that the only things in life that we keep are the things that we give away; that the laws of life ask a tenth of ow earning power and a tenth of ourselves; that it is a bigger job to build a life than it is to build a business." . I do want to thank you so much for sending me the inspir-— ational cards which have just been received, They are lovely. The one that made the strongest impression on me was the one that did not have a printed word on it. It was Nature, with all of her beauties againes @ background of sparkling water and rolling clouds. ; Again thanking you for your kindness, I an Rotarily yours, Director of Physical Education, | PCA:AH | Varsity Basketball Coach. 1 Februar$ 1945 Dr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Dr. Allen: I ran into Lt. Bob Trump here in Boston, in fact he is on temporary duty with the same installation to which I am assigned. He happened to have a copg of your "Jayhawk Rebounds" with him and I really got a big kick out of finding out where a lot of the fellows I went through school with had ended up in the service. If it is possible I would like very much to be put on the mailing list. I was not active in athletics while I was in school but always followed the teams closely. The eastern papers evidently don't give much space to the Big Six sports and it is next to the real thing to be able to read your account of the highli#ghts of the games. From all appearances I am going to be one of those few guys who spend most of my thmhe fighting the war from this side of the water. Am at present assigned to the Post of Embarkation with no hopes for a change of scenery at least for some little time to come. I haven't heard anything of Bob (Allen) in some time now. He and I played a lot of golf gogether in the summer of '41 while I was attending summer school. I went into the army only a couple of months after that and lost track of him completely. My kindest regards to Mrs. Allen, E&@eanor, and the rest of the family. Yours sincerely, WILLIAM W. OLIVER, '41 Mailing address: Capt. William W. Oliver 1l Babcock Street Brookline, 46, Mass. March 27, 1946. LaJolla, Ses AFeNONA. Dear Burt: Thank you so such for your thoughtfulness in congratu- lating me on the election as Governor of District 123, R. I. It 4s nice of you to think of me, and it was also good to receive a clipping giving Lt. Glenn Cumingham's opinion on his doubts as to liagg. : I notice that prices are higher than © cat's back in California. Well, e fellow who is better satisfied is the man who tries not to spend everything he mms got. When it shrinks he will - still have a little loft. * That rocket powder: is sania I would want more than 625,000 acres if they are going tp shoot that stuff around me. I would be clear on the outaide of all of it. It is mighty powerful because I have sean them shoot it, aid it is devastating. | Antiodpating your and Mrs. Ober's early return, and asking to be remembered kindly to her, I am Sincerely yours, : Director of Physical Education, PCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach. | Cunningham Doubts ‘Shadow’ Will Hit 4.12 By EDDIE GRIFFITH ) Gunder Hagg the Swedish shadow who { sped from farm boy to fireman to miracle | man of motion in three swift laps, declares he will run the indoor mile at the Knights of Co- lumbus games in Cleveland tomorrow night in 4.12 or less. And Navy Lt. Glenn Cunningham, holder of the world’s indoor mile record and now stationed at San Diego’s 11th Naval District, counters with: “T doubt it!” % Cunningham, who in 1938 on the boards of the # Dartmouth college track at Hanover, New Hamp-. ¢ shire, ran the 11 laps in 4:04.4 for a world’s record which has yet to be challenged, isn’t casting doubt on Gunder’s racing ability. “Tt’s just that I don’t think Hagg is in condi- tion for such an effort at this time,” the Kansas tor- nado explained. “In his three starts since arriving here, Hagg has appeared to be in very bad shape. If he was in fair condition when leaving Stockholm, I can’t understand how he could have tailed off so badly even counting the time it took for the ree ined A few simple exercises on shipboard would have kept him toned up.” Cunningham, it should be explained, is a stickler for conditioning. Although desk-bound much of the time by his duties as assistant physical and wel- } fare officer of the district, Glenn daily takes work- outs which tend to keep him close to the peak of condition. Switching- the.subject, we asked the “Miracle Man of the Mile” the difference between running indoor and outdoor miles—another factor which ere has proved difficult for Hage to under- stan LT. GLENN CUNNINGHAM “Indoor miles are run approximately two i doubts Hagg can do it. seconds slower than the same distance outdoors,” Seiciin he said. “This is due to the more am zm ah ae numerous turns and shorter straightaways inside. There are 11 laps to the mile, which means that 22 turns must be made, This tends to slow speeds and a run- ner must be able to pace himself with great accuracy. The long stretch runs and wide sweeping turns of outdoor tracks make for better times.” Glenn digressed to deny that he was paced when setting the on| world’s mark at Hanover. his “I was never paced in a race,” he emphasized. “I always fig- od|ured I knew more about my wind, timing and endurance than the pacer. At Hanover, knew within one-tenth of a_ second where I was all the time.” \\ This is indeed remarkable and| Sa N |helps explain the successes Cun-| Sa N jningham scored as a distance} yy, \ | runner. H The Hanover track had only 40-| **€ : yard straightaways and 40-yard| wh turns. wh Asked about the possibility of |j, P)| a flat four-minute mile, Glenn t promptly replied: eas ng} “It is more than a possibility. rec ie- |T would say it is a certainty. Times| the ad . : : for the distance are steadily being] on¢ ‘as| whittled down. And I don’t think ed) it will be long before such a mark} ym, is made.” to Cunningham ad mitted that on Hagg might grab the honors for} ay such a record, but still doubted} w the Shadow’s ’ ability to run in| \ 4.12 or less: tomorrow night. lea “That time requires a man tolin be at peak condition. I think] An Gunder has yet to reach thattype| 1 of physical well-being on this/tra trip.” tri cwSnvT Z March 16, 1945. Mr. Paul 0*Boynisk, Sport Desk, : The Kansas Oity Star, Kansas Gity, Mo. Dear Paul: | In our conversation regarding the game of basketball ‘we were convinced that it is impossible to officiate the - game proporly. I am sending you my ideas which I thought ‘ were slightly mddled in this morning's Kansas City TMmes. Observe these games from your standpoint and try to visualize the free throw change, which I think would be a : ewell idea. 1 Very sincerely yours, | Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH : Varsity Basketball Coach. Eno. : February 14, 1945. hanks for the Times clippings. It was niee of you te send - Than So tee Says feller, T an glad that you took wp colt. I would like Very sincerely yours, } Director of Physical Sducation, FAs All Varsity Basketball Coach. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA, NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS Ja nuary 30 : 1945, Dear Phog, Thanks very much for your kind note of January 26th in regard to my new appointment. I appreciated your thoughtful- ness. Recent events have certainly borne you out in the matter of gamblers and Eastern basketball. You may already have seen the New York Times story in which you are mentioned but I want to be sure so [I am sending it on. Harriet and I still revember with great pleasure our evening at the Country Club with the Allens, and Mother. We enjoyed every bit of it. You will be intere sted to know that I took up golf late this summer and got a real bad case of "golf fever", Anyway next time I come out there I am looking forward to a few rounds with you over the Lawrence Country Club where I played the game many years ago. You've never really scen a "hook", Phog, until you've seen mine ! Give our very best to lhirs. Allen. Fraternally yours foul tf Oru OKLAHOMA FOOTBALL 1942 Sept. 26 . Okla. Aggies at Stillwater. Oct o2 oe SS eos Tulsa at Tulsa. Gert as Texas at Dallas. Oct. 17 .-. ... Kansas at Lawrence. Oct.. 24... . Nebraska at Norman. Oct. 31... . Iowa State at Ames. Nov. 7. . Kansas State at Norman. Nov. 14. Missouri at Norman. (Homecoming) Nov. 21 .. Temple at Philadelphia. *Dec. 5 William and Mary at Norman. *semi-centennial game. | ve wey came gies te RTHUR. EDSoN ASSocea TED ernéss, (KAUBAS Crt, eee” (Star Lee) for former Sooner athletes in the services onlye Oct. 3, 1944 NORMAN NAS ZOOMERS 28, OKIAHOMA 14 STATISTICS....earned first downs: Zoomers 9, Sooners 7e Net yards gained tushings Zoomers 241, Sooners 119, Forward passing: Zoomers completed 2 of 5 for 45 yards, Sooners completed 3 of 16 for 60 yardse Interceptions: Zoomers 3 for 70 yards e Punt returns: Zoomers 3 for 21, Sooners 2 for 456 Kickoff returns: Zoomers 2 for 46, Sooners 3 for 113~ Blocked punts: by Zoomers le Total yards: Zoomers 435, Sooners 349¢ Fumbles -that cost possession of ball: Zoomers 1, Sooners Oe Penalty yardage: Zoomers 100, Sooners 67. BRIEF PLAY-BY-PLAY... efirst quarter..eseLebow, Sooner tailback, brought kickoff back 48 yards to Sooner 46, then Sooners marched 52 yards to a touchdown in 10 plays, most of them weakside bucks by Lebow and spins by Billy Wright, our Lubbock, Texe freshman, One pass on the march, Lebow hitting Red Dinkins for 11 to the Zoom 18. Lebow scored the touchdown on a drive over guarde Wooten kicked goal,, Sooners 7,, ZoomerSe Homer Sparkman, our 148+pound blocking back, turned their line-backer nicely on this drives. Then the Zooms went inte actions Sitko and Eshmont can run behind that 203epound linee They smashed back 50 yards with only a clipping penalty stopping them. Lebow punted. Tommy Meason, our Ardmore freshman, interferred, giving them ball on our 41, and Sitko, Great “akes' star last year, slashed around end 41 yards to a touchdown-and Miller kicked goole 77. Theywent ahead 10+7 in the second quarter when Lebow's quick kick was partially blocked and Miller hit a nice field goal into the wind from22 yards off. In the third quarter our pass~- ing game boomeranged all over the field. Williams, their center, intercepted Meason toss and they marched 44 yards toa touchdown which Welsh scorede Miller missede Zoomers 16, Sooners 7. A little later Lebow overshot his receiver and Eshmont intercepted the ball and ran 60 yards down the sideline for mother touche He was opening and shutting like a jackrabbite Miller missede Zoomers 22, Sooners Te At this point Snorter took out our fagged first team and put the subs ing saving his varsity for the college schedule. The Zooms caught our freshman safety out of position and Herron pegged 50 yards to OtBrion who was behind everybody and s cored - easily. No goale Zooms 28, Sooners 7e Then our second team backfield of Meason, Basil Sharp, Bobby: Estep and Louis Dollarhide scored with three minutes lefte Ester -prought back Cox's punt back 39 yards to the Zoom 18(it is mow late in fourth per- iod) and on next play Dollarhide swept his weakside end for 18 yards and a touchdow standing. Den Weir, Kerrville, Tox, freshman, goalede Zooms 28, Sooners 14 HURT eeeeDinkims, our starting left end, cramped a nerve in his shoulder..ee.firchie Bradley, our second team wingback, smashed a knee but it isn't swollen and he may play later, although probably not in next gamee THE LOW DOWN seeethey were too big, too experienced and too goodeeeeFour former "pro" players in their club, Eshmont(New York Giants), Guards Clem Stralka(Washing-= ton Redskins) and Roy Stuart(Detroit Lions) and Conter Rex Williams(N.Y. Yankees) - yeeThe surprise of the game was the way they smothered our passes with their 5-man lineeeeee couldn't peg the ball away from their three line-backers, especially Williams, the middle onee.»eThey out-eweighed our light wartime club 16 pounds to th: man and after horsing them out of the way on our opening touchdown drive, our kids got awfully wearye.e.We ought to look much better against college tcamSe THIS WERKee.el¥e meet Homer Norton's Texas Aggics 8 p.me Taft stadium, Oklahoma City, October Teesetoxas Aggies are goode..sThey beat Bryan Arny hir Field 39-0 and Texas Tech 27=l4¢eeseeThey are a T formation team and Mac, who scouted them, says they are fast and their line charges hardesge.Two radio stations will broadcast: KOMA of Oklahoma City with Al Donaldson at mike(1,510 kylocycles) and Humble Yil company of Toxas with Ves Box at mike(try KRLD, Dallas, 1,080 kylos). KTUL of Tulsa will pick up KOMA's broddecast, So long for this times for former Sooner athletes in the sorvice, only. Octe 10, 1944, OKLAHOMA 21, TEXAS AGGIES 14 Crowd--filled Taft stadium in Oklahoma Gity full and slopped over..eeBill figgers it about 15,000 and Uncle Billy doesn't miss it fareeee3oth sides, the entire south horseshoe, wooden bleachers in north end all filled.....eThen they sat around the playing field six deepese.it was our first game in Oklahoma CityeeseseDale is taking four home games there this year, Texas Ags, Texe Christian, Okla. Ags and Nobeeee fhe idea is to take foothall to the population centers in time of war, giving war plant populations a chace to see them and obviating the need for transportation, WEATHER=-Coole About 65. Clear, reat night for game. Summary--TA led first dovms, 15-14...0kla, most rushing yurdage, 220 to 141.,.TA most rorwurd passing yardage, 131 to 5l...iWo hit 4 of 6 however, Lebow pegging them &lle..We intercepted one pass for 4 YoSeesethsy out-punted us, 47 to 50eeeethey had most yards kick-runbecks, 141 to 63.eeneither tcam lost the bail on a fumble.,ewe were penalized 51, they 26, First quarter--Okluhoma drove 74 yerds to touchdown on the ground with Lebow, Louis Dollarhide and Charley lieard ruming cleverly behind the blocking of our strongside blocking shield, Red Dinkins, Harley, Tigurt and “arley Smalley, the Alabama boy...-eLebow barrelled over on fourth down for thetouciteeseDub Wooten, who never placekicked a conversion before in his life wmtil this full, hit the goal kick, Second quarter..eWe rolled 75 yards to a second touchdown, this one in six plays, all TUS, WO paSsSeeeeThe thrill play was a G2eyurd reverse by Charley Heard who was bumped out on their Seyard line....Lebow took three bucks and went over on fourth downesesWooten did his stuff..eeilo led here 14-0 und Snorter put ina whole second texmeseeiIn four plays foxas.A.and M had a touch, Cashion passing to Spires for 44 vurds and six pointsee..abruham goaledes.e}467..-,Snorter rushcd his tired start:-rs buck to put out the firese.eThird quarterseeeeorton cut loose with his tomadic rushing offensive and they. marched 80 yards to the tying touches.,Our line fell apart like it had been laid open by aswiftly-yanked zipper....Yutes, Southwest conference leading scorer, made it....Abrahan goaledeeeeon our first team, tooeece Many thought we were througheeeeSwell rally by Vadetseseeefourth quarter--They kicked t> us and back we came along "The Lebow Road"....'Jithout surrendering the ball we marched 69 yards in 13 plays to the winning touch....Lebow scored ite.-.Boy how he wis drivingeseelle can buck with tho besteeeeHe threw throe passes along the route vais time, shot-gunning two to Wooten and one to Dollarhide, last year's sub from Tdabel.eeeOQld automatic Wooten did his stuff....2l-l4...."Jere those babies licked? ooselicck nNOeeseethey ripped us to shreds trying to score in final moments but Homer Sparkman, our 148-pound blocking back, saved two touchs, once with a peach ofa tackle in open field, once by slapping down a td pass....ut the finish Heard tossed his red helmet 30 feet into the air and our boys huddled, like highschoolers, right out in the middle of the field and gave 15 rahs for Texas A and Llgeeedl unusual tribute, for collegions, to a great fighting tcameseethe game was rough, hard but Cle@nesectionte idoucrief, of Dallus, their tackle(what « hoss} We ran away from hin all night and still he got us) and captuin and Dub, our cap, were buddies at Chi- cago this summer in allestar gumoeeesthey kept their boys in linesseseelt looks like a great serieSee.ethe crowd ate it UPeeesthey return to Norman in 1945-46-47-48 for four more EameSeeeehurry back, you footballers, we are going to need plenty of help against those babiese.esthcy play for K8CPSeeeefine team, fine coaches. This woek..e.texus at Dallus...e45-year oli rivaleys.e.eBill Cross says the crowd wilT “go -30,000....not bad for wartine ulthoush still way off the crest crowd of 44,791 in 1941 when they shellacked us 40—Tecee 3ible had two cripples, Layne, his new tailback, and Plylem, his 260-lb,. tackle...she held them both out of last week's defeat to powerful Randolph Field but they are ready for us..eele have Bob Mayfield, our fine center, limping while Red Dinmins has a charloy horse us hard as steel.... may not play...+KOMA(1,520) uni KTUL(1,430) and several Texas stations will carry it. page Zy Octe 10, 1944 CROSSCOUNTRYeeeaJake's boys won their 2emile opener apainst the Purcell Gunners here between halves of the Zoom gume@eeeeVicklund, our “ig Six outdoor mile and 2= mile chanp, won it by 100 yards in 10:33.5..Eldon Ferguson, Tulsa freshman, a Bill Lantz boy who las} yeur won the state highschool crosscountry run and also the cluss A mile and half-mile, finished second with only a week's training(he enrolled laté).e.eedack Osborn of Tulsa third.,...Ivan Evans our freshman from Putnam City, the state HS +40 champ last two years, was fourthee.thoeir first man fifthe..eHow- ever our youngsters took it on chin 30-25 in close races at Taft stadium between pee texas aggie football game Saturday night October TeeeeVicklund won in 10:22, following Hampton six laps, then out-finishing him by 40 yardseeeeOsborn fourth, Ferguson seventh, Winston Hudson of Healdton, state HS class B 880 king, was eighth and Evans tenth...ei/e may run Texus -ggies a return co at 3 or 4 miles “at College Station lateree.ewo run Purcell Gunners a return race this week ut Purcell (big Naval gunnery school down there, about 6 miles east of Lexincton)...eIt's 5 miles.... Our twosmile team is real younge.e..Vickluni 19, Ferguson 18, Evans 18, Hudson 17 and Osborn the dean at 20eeeeVic and Usborn in Nuvy unit here, Ferguson end Evens are army Air Force reserves expecting call dailys..eiudson below military agee BASKETBALLeeeeSruce has bezun i eeeothey work ut nizhteeeed lettermen dack, all pecwecSseeeDon Buelow of | nid, Jack Landon, OC Capitol Hill and Ed Lindenberg ooeetie huve one fine oie, Bill Whaley, who played last year at Pepperdine col- lege in California....iie'sM little toosseethe rest is pretty green material but Bruce has 60 odd boys working. JUNIOR VaARSITYeeeetThe only all-victorious team on the campuSeeseusing T formation and couched by three llavy chiefs, Ben tankersley, ifose Yims and Swede Johnson, they have beaten Purcell 25-12, Holdenville 19-0, and last Friday night at ada they took Hast Central 14=6.e.e.eche Jayveecs are fizhtersee.ewith six minutes to play at Ada they trailed 0-6.%..Then they got kinda mad, so mad that Joss Sweeting, their guard, even scored a touchdown on a special play that could be called"Sweeting's Sweet- heart."see. this week they play Henryetta HS, also all-vic, at 4enryettas..e.Our Jvs are nearly all Uavy unit boys assigned heres... they play all their games on the road which means they have to be a touch and a half better than their opponents to gét a draweeeeiiobody has even tied them yeteeseeThey scat from the T and also from a plain vanilla single wingeeeeThey ure young, light kids, averaging, perhaps, 19 anid about 155 or 160 pounds...eThey rim up against all sorts of obstacles on their trips, such as weird officiating, unfriendly crowds, tire trouble, etc, but they like to play, and hoWe'ece: : CHA*Feeesifyrle Yreathousc, wounded on Guam, is back at Pearl Harbor resting upeees tie was shot throuzh legs but in Hawaii wus trying to play footballeseeeAl Horwitz, our 155 1b. rassler several years ago, hus a 30-day “ee from the Havy in the India theater and is visiting his wife at Dallase...He is a Loot JGeoe-S/set, Skeet Harnage, our Cherokee Indian broadjumper, is back in the wen after 50 missions, 3014 combat hourseeseeiie has 4 Silver Star, Distin;uwished Flying Crosse..ePresiden- tid taeeee) citation, asiutic Pacific Theater rood conduct meduleeesecni. Loocey Ken "Crow “op" Farris, our 8ig Six broad jump champ(4 times), now in marine quarter- mastery, furpished the above dopes.e.skeet won t talk although he did tell Ken, "Ain't these medals a mess? ‘hen I pin them all.on, they look like somebody spilled fruit salad on my shirt."....the university is rapidly being converted back to a peacetime basiSeeeeCur army contingent dwindled from 1,000 to 200, scores of dis- charged veterans are here, the university is desperate for (1)money for an adequate faculty, and (2)housing space for students....fith 2 big naval units on each side of town and rent high, few people want to rent room to studentsess.The football team hasn't been able to get its new uniforms delivered and played first two games in old ragzed stuff that looked as bad as Norman high's practice stuff..eeJust 2x»fore the’ Zoom game Red Dinkins was leading culisthenics....the new girls pep club, 90 gals, was drilling nearby,....s Red led a vigorous"jumping jack,"the seat of his | old pants fell out,...Sarge durne! him up....PS new stuff cot here for Texus gume . for former Sooner athletes in the service, only. Octe 17, 1944 TEXAS 20, OKLAHOMA 0 BROKE OUR SCORING STRING....This game marked the first time in 17 consecutive games dating back to the 1942 season that Vklahoma failed to score. The last time was Oct. 27, 1942 when Nebraska beat us 7-0 at Norman. Since then we scored in 17 consecutive games STATISTICS....We held them to three first downs and only 74 net yards gained ruming eeeefirst downs went 5-3 Oklahoma, rushing yardage 117-74 Oklahoma, they out-passed us and how,hitting 8 of 15 for 132 while we hit 6 of 17 for 40 and they intercepted 46.eeour kicm runbacks were 6 for 87 yards, theirs 5 for 87, fumbles that cost loss of ball, Vklahoma 2, Texas 1, penalties Oklahoma 46, Texas 25. PLAY-BY-PLAYeeeein first quarter marched to their half=foot line where they held us. Lebow hit Burgert and Wooten with pusses and himself ran 16 yards to the texas six for a first down. However here our backfield was in motion and we wore penalized mhm where it hurt. Lebow hit Sparkie with a pass that carried to the one-foot line, but on fourth down they moved Wetz, their 285-pound tackle and Plyler, their 235-pound tackle, into the defensive guards and even Lebow couldn't dent all that blubber, Texas then scored just beforo tho quartor ended when Lame, their tailback, took a lateral from Fischer, ran wide, then suddonly fadod and pegged to Bechtol in the end zone, our defensive half sucking in N fatallye Luyne goalod. There was no more scoring or even threatening gestures made until the fourth quarter. Here Texas again found our pass defense wide open. Maxie Bell pegged a flatter to Leroy An- derson who zipped down imthe sideline 40 yards to scoree:, No goale Luter Layne hurled to Wayne Bennett, a long one downthe middle, and Bonnett was all alone in the end zone as he caught the bull, Billy Andrews, their 4-fdot ll-inch water boy, came in but instead of drop-kicking the extra point,.he threw it to Layne. 20-0. THE LOW DOWNeessOur pass defense leaked woefully....Their throwers stood up all day behind that 2ll-pound line, waiting until the receivers had eluded our SOCONdATYesee Some of our players thought Lebow scored on our first march,...our tackling was sloppy ee«-.on Anderson's run down the Sideline, three of our boys had cuts at him....Their line wes too big to move much.on running and their pass defense was very cleverly set for us....It wus . Texas team that looked impotent on offense save for those clutch passes old Dana dreamed up for us. JUNIOR VARSITY....our Jvs, who didn't win a game in either 1942 or 1943, are a going thing this fall..,.they are all-victarious to date, having beaten Purcell HS 25-12, Holdenville HS 19-0, East Ventral 14-6 and all-victorious Henryetta last Friday night 27-O+eeethey are nearly ull light navy boys but do a swell job...sthey play Coach Payl Young's “rdmore HS Tigers Friday night October 20 to close their seasons CROSSCOUNTRYeese.Jdake's kids beat the “avul Gunnery School of Purcell in a five-mile race, 35 to 20....Vicklund first in 30:12....Ivan Evans, tho state 440 champ, second ~ followed by Jack Osborn and Eldon “erguson of lulsa..eseewe go to Colloge Station, Tex. | Saturday October 21 for a return meet with the lexus egies to be run between halves of the Texas agghes-Texas Christian football games NEW ADDRESSES JUST RECEIVED:(not on list we recently mailed you); Lt. Hugh Ford, 0-404451, Btry C, 104 FA 4tn., APO 27, San Francisco, Calif. Major Ab D.Welker, PMG school, Ft. Sam Houston, Tex. Major Harold E.Fleetwood, 0-314620, HQ 802 FA Btne, APO 403, % Postmuster, New York, Pfc Dave Wallace, 38395769, Cannon Co., 347th Inf.,APO 448, % Postmaster, New York. Lt... Dick Reich, 7th Inf, Tr. Bne, Inf. Trna regel rm. command, FMF,Camp Lejuene,N.C. Lt. Lendell E.(Juck) Steele, 0529087, 140 Bn T.D.7.P.. Hgs, North Camp Hood, Toxuse Major William R,(Bob) Clark, 0-305707, 276th armed FA Bn., APO 403, % PM, New York. Capt. Walter(Waddie) Young, Gen. Del., Herington Air Base, Herington, Kans. Pvt. L.V.Birge, 38711710, 3508 AAF Bn, Sect, P, 1906, Truax field, Madison, Wis Lt. Ueorge “tbbons, 01184838, Hq 42° fa Grays,’ aPO 403, % PM, Now’ York city, we for former Sooner athletes in the Service, only. Oct. 24, 1944 OKLAHOMA 68, KANSAS STATE 0. STATISTICS ««.-Harned first downs, Oklahoma 17-7. Net yards gained rushing, Oklahoma - 404-52, Forward passing, Oklahoma hit 4 of 7 for 63, KS hit 6 of 18 for 50, Inter~ ceptions, Oklahoma grabbed 4 for 158 yards, KS none. Punt returns, Oklahoma 4 for 75, KS 1 for 25, Kickoff returns, Oklahoma 1 for 46, KS 9 for 148. Blocked punts, Oklahoma 1(Ed Parker, tackle). Total yards, Oklahoma 744-275. Fumbles that cost loss of ball, Oklahoma 2-1, Penalty yardage, Oklahoma 87-21. PLAY~BY=PLAY+.s.ere's how touchdovms were scored: Homer Sparkman over on qb sneak, Basil Sharp bucked two yards, Homer Sparkman repeated on qb sneak(we ran most of time off T formation), Tommy Meason, Ardmore freshman, swept end for 7, Bobby Estep reversed for 26 with Bob Stover throwing key block, Basil Sharp, Pawnee freshman, ran 51 with lateral, Estep weaved 22 on reverse, Meason bored off tackle for 6, Johnny West intercepted Ungles' pass and came back 82 yards to score(our longest interception run since QB Eddie Johnson cane back 94 against Uriahoma Aggies here in 1923), West passed to Johnny Austin for 10. Dub Wocten, our end who never before placekicked anything but kickoffs(for Amarillo, Texas high) booted 8 of 10 conver-~ sions, giving him 12 of 14 so far this season, THE LOWDOWN..»-.eKansas State has no navy unit and very little good civilian talent. They deserve plenty of credit for even putting a team on the field in these times. They also had two or three boys crippled and lost others as the battle aged. Snor-= ter played our first team only 17 minutes, turning the game over to the reserves, many of them all-state high school boys 17. Hungry to play, these kids ate up the Wildcats, BEST-LOOKING KANSAS STATERS....sDana Atkins, 2 17-year old 142-pound halfback, was a slippery runner who averaged nearly three yards against us with very little blocking in front of him. Elliott caught three passes for 30 yards ageinst us. Bill Ungles, their qb, was busiest, running 13 times for net gains of minus 5 yards, shooting seven passes, suffering a blocked punt and returning four kickoffs for 70. WHAT SOONERS PLAYED....Starters: Burgert and Wooten, ends; Bill Hallett and Harley, tackles; Don Tillman and Tigart, guards, Mayfield, center; +ebow, Sparkman, Heard and Sharp, backs, “eserves: Ends Bob Gambrell of OC, Bob Stover of Enid, Jim Marr of OC, Johnny Austin of Pauls Valley, Bill Magness of Coalgate, Tackles Millard Cummings of inid, Albert Stover of Weatherford, Hd Parker of Midland, Fla., Vilheln Schneider of Willows, Calif, Darold Reckl ing of Lincoln, Neb.; Guards Steve Sawyer of Tulsa, Elvin Yeckson of Eureka, Calif., Roff *“enworthy, L.P,.Brown of Duncan, Centers Al Vogel of Texarkana, texas and Bill Snyder of Ridge Farm, Ill.; Backs Dick Peddycoart of OC, Gane Captain bob Estep of Phillips, Texas, Tom Meason of Ardmore, Don Weir of Kerrville, Texas, Harry Paramore of Duncan, Laddie Harp of Fairview, Max Culver of Muskogee, Jom Wright of Lubbock, Texas, Jom Vest of OC, and Bob Williams of Weatherford. Snorter swept the bench clean. Dinkins, with a "charley," and Smalley with a twisted ankle, didn't play. NEW ADDRESSES «ee eCapt. W.C.Hetheringten, Cc. B, 20th BNn,, 5th Repl. Regie, AGF. Re D.No. 1, Fort George G,Meade, Md. and Lt. ReHMeKinney, Marianna Arny Air Field, Marianna, Fla, NOTES....Lt«(jg) Dick Smethers is back on « 40-day leave from Alaskan duty, will be transferred to mine sweeping schocl at “crktowm, Va. He and his wife saw the K-State game....Lt.( jg) Al Horwitz, who has been in action India theater, is also home on leave and with his wife saw the Texas game....Lt. Gordon Clarke who has been in SW Pacific theater, wes home on short leave and saw K*State games.ecces basketball has started....Bruce may get Shorty Hines, who played last year at South- western, Texas university(where he was in Navy V-12)....Hines has been given a discharge....Jake's 2-milers lost 30-25 to Texas Aggies at College Station Oct. 2l. for former Sooner athletes in the service, only. Oct. 31, 1944. ae OKLAHOMA 34, TEXAS CHRISTIAN 19 THE LOWDOWN. e.+.eOklahoma won with a fourth quarter punch after TCU rallied thrill- ingly to score three touchdowns in the third quarter....the score thenws 21-19 Uklahoma..eeHowever Bob Mayfield, our center, and Elvin Jackson, our sub guard, in- tercepted TCU passes in the fourth quarter and we drove to a touchdown off each interceptionse..eThe game was a little weird in that we outshone them a bit in their Speciality, forward-passing, scoring two touchdows uerially on them and intercepting three of theirs to set up the game-winning touchdowns, while they outran us slight- lyeeeeDutch Meyer, their coach, gambled, using virtually an eight-man line to choke our running....However this left his secondary thin and Lebow soon began passing through it....The return to action of Red Dinkins, our left end(out three weeks with a balky "charley") definitely helpedeseeeRcd is a rough boye PLAY-BY-PLAYeeeefirst quartey: Dinkins, our game captain, celebrating his first game singe Gctober 7, blocked Jackson's punt so solidly that the ball bounded back across the goal, Dinkins following and covering it for a touchdown. ». Wooten Zoaledesees=-O0 -eeeesocond quarter: Wooten partially blocked Mason s punt and TCU was penalized 15 for protesting the referesc's decision to give Oklahoma the ball, which left us hold- ing it on their sevene...Lebow passed in the left fla$ to Heard for the td,.und Dub godledeceel4-O.eeethird quarter: led by Joe Kucera, thoir tailback who played last year at Rice but was moved by the Navy to TCU, the Frogs came out on fire....receiv- ing our kickoff, they marched 78 yards to score with Merle Gibson, their fine pass- catching end, stealing behind our defense to take a long 43-yard pass f rom Kucera and scoreseeeMullins missed go abe.esl4-6....0klahoma then received the kickoff and scored in six plays, Lebow firing a long pass over their safety to Wooten....Wooten goaledec-c2l=Geeeelhey received the kickoff and marched 70 to another touch, Kucera again pitching to Gibson in the end zone who made a wonderful catch with Sooners all aroundeseeFlowers missed godlesee2l-12...elthree pluys later they scored again when we kicked out short after being penalized to our one, and Kucera bootlegged 32 yards . to pay dirteseeliullins goaledesee2l=-19.eeefourth quarter; Lebow punted 50 yards to put them back on their 11 and when Aucera tried u pass, Mayfield intercepted it and ran 18 yards to their six....efrom there Lebow churned over standing on a weakside bucke sesWooten dideses.23-19,eeelie@ neurly scored again, Basil Sharp, our freshman:full from Shawnee, going 33 yards on a ripping buck with the TCU safety tagging him by one foot to prevent an 86-yard td. rune.e..They stopped us, Lebow punted, they had to pass and this time Jackson jumped into the uir and intercepted Harly's deflection to give us the ball on their RMMNNMM 45...eLebow cutback for 13, Sharp biffed tackle for 4, Bobby Estep, our 138-pound wingback from Phillips, toxas, ran 28 to a touch standing on a weakside reverse with Wooten blocking their end...eWooten missed goal after hitting 8 in rowWeeesie has booted 16 of 19 this year, 842 percont...eO0n the next to the last play of the game Estep nearly scored again....sHe intercepted a pass and returned it down the sideline, weaving end dodging, 50 yards, swan-diving over thir the go&l.ee,However officials ruled he had stepped out on the Frog 13 and with one play left we didn't have time to scoreseesesed4-196 SUMMARY..eeFirst downs earned, texas Christian 8-7...enet yurds rushed, Texas Chris- tian, 162-158....forward passing, TCU hit Smmfichimimx 10 of 18 for 109, Oklahoma 7 of 16 for 954.eePass interceptions, Yklahom, 3 for 55 yards, TCU 1 for 18...eall kick returns, Oklahoma 5 for 108, TCU 7 for 77...eetotal yards, Vkluhoma 447-366..0+ fumbles that lost ball, Oklahoma 1....epenalties, Vklahoma, 55-50. SHORTS.e...Snorter used only 7 subs, Ends Preach Burgert, Jim Marr, Tackle Millard Cummings, Guards Steve Sawyer and Elvin Jackson, Center Al Vogel and Back Tom Meason,. Mayfield, our center, played a wonderful game. He had tleyer's short pass game all figured out, grabbing the Frog receivers before they could tum after catching the balleeesAlthough the Frog bullecarriers came to him every conceivable way, full steam, cutting and slowed up from missed tackles, Mayfield wrapped tem up in hig big aYMSeeeeHe wis sure firesee lait stadium nourly full, 12,314...However it wasn t as big as the 15,415 that suw us nose Texus Aggies there three weeks agos for former Sooner athletes in the service, only. Nov. 7, 1944 OKliiHOMA 12, IOWA STATE 7 THE LOWDOWNee.elowa State was cleverly-coached and highly keyed before its home crowd on Homecoming Day, but Oklahoma might have won by an even greater margin if Derald Lebow hadn't bumped his head on the ground while scoring the first touch- downe Groggy, Lebow came out and played no more until the last six minutes, With- out him(for nearly three quarters) we were like a pugilist who has broken a hand and has to fight on the defensivessssolt was closeseeesThey lacked only one foot scoring a second touchdown when we gave them the ball on a fumble on our foureyard line in the fourth quarter....We held them for down SseeeeJohnny West, third string tailback who came in for Lebow, played a swell game, driving us to the winning toun- down on a 65-yard march in the second quarter and kicking the ball a mile after we held for downs, but we always click better with Lebow who calls the signak, Homer Sparkman, blocking back, had to call them when Lebow was hurt....eHe didn't do badly, eeeeiIn fact, he mixed them up shrewdly on our second touchdowm marche PLAY-BY-PLAYe«eethe two teams couldn't get going in the first quarter. Wo gave them the ball when they intercepted a deflected pass. They gave it back to us twice on fumbles. From the second Iowa *tate fumble which Tackle Bill 4allett recovered for us on their 20, wo drove to a touch in four plays. Lebow ran 5, then 5, Basil Sharp 8 to their 8-yard line, Lebow scored the td. and knocked himself out, Wooten missed goalese..6-05e..ee kicked oi f to them, held them,rimm forced thom to kick and drove to another touchdown....[t was a march of 65 yards with big Sharp, our new freshman fullback from Pawnee(an all-state highschool choice, 188 lbs., 6 feet 2 inches, fast, ran the dashes at Pawneo HS) tearing off dashes of 12, 16 and 8 yards seoethey penalized us 15 as we neared their goul but we overereached it when West ran 14 on the fake pass and run, then hit Sparkman with a short pass, It was fourth down and one to go on their seven, but instead of trying for a first down, Big Sharp waded through them for the touchdowm,. Wooten goaled but wo held and his second smn shot, from the 35, fell shorteeseselZ-0...ethen, with only six minutes of the half heft left, Snorter pulled the first team and sent in the seconds.,..lowa Stute scored © three plays later, “ene Phelps, their sub quarter, sprinting 69 yards on a quarterd back "Keep It" play around tuckle....-lt was a T formtion play and their man in motion drew orf our outside line-buckere,..,Warner kicked zoalesoel2-7ee0. that was the final scorées...Without Lebow, we hud lost our offensive punch and they came after USeeeesgin the third quurter...ett was nearly all played in our half of the field....iVe held them, they Kicked, we clipped and were ponalized back to our 8, Sharp fumbled there and they recovered on our four with four downs to scorej But our line held. Don Tillman spi}led the first play, Dub Wooten got the second, Harley(who is developing into a fine tackle) smashed them for a two-yard loss, On fourth down they ran wide, lateraling to Howard but Sharp and West one-twoed him in the corner of the field, knocking him off the #iéld at the Imm oneefoot line and it was our ball....West coolly kicked a 50-yarder and it was all over, STATISTICS..e.first downs, Yklahoma 14-6, net yards rushed, Uklahoma 221-173, pass- ing, Yklahoma hit 2 of 8 for 16, Iow. State 3 of 8 for 22, IS intercepted two of our passes for seven yards, kick runbacks, Vklahoma 62-24 yards, totul yards, Okla- homa 327-230, fumbles that lost ball, IS 2, 0 1, penalties 35 yards cach, SHORTS.+eeCple Bill Campbell, our all-Big Six blocking back of 1942, came dwon from Sioux City, where he is an AAF gunner, to see the game,..,30bby Estep, whom wo are losing to midshipman's school, hitch-hikd a ride on a B-17 to see itese,ett was so cold the IS girl cheer-leaders wore gloves,...Between halves the IS band played some fine numbers from the play Oklahoma},eseduake"s crosscountry team lost a close mect to Iow. State 30-25....Vicklund, our mmumm ace, won by a foot from Bill Arlen, IS ac@eseeVicklund's time for. the 3 miles 296 yards was 17:44....Bldon Ferguson of “klahoma finished 4th, Jack Osborn 6th, Ivun Evans 9th and they had to go get Hudson, our last man, in a jecp.seslowa State's hilly course killed off our boys, used to the flat prairies here, but Iowa State's runners could runsseesd long wmtil next wevk. for former Sooner athletes in the service, only. Nov. 14, 1944 OKLAHOMA 21, MISSOURI 21 The Lowdown....Just before the game, the Sooners lost three stars, Derald Lebow, Charley Heard and “illard Cummings, by a Navy doctor's bam..sLebow and Heard had colds, Cummings a bruised knee....Lebow was permitted "one play in each half" and scored touchdowns on both but was in only a few seconds and his signal-calling, punting, passing and running was sadly missed....«Heard's losswas even more acute be- cause Arch Bradley and Bobby Estep, his alternates at the start of the season, are both lost, Bradley from a smashed knee that had to be operated and “step because of transfer to midshipman's school....Missouri played without Bill Dellastatious, Ed Quirk and Jack O'Connell so it was a battle of crippled backfields....The Sooners had no time to season their backfield subs, Missouri played without Dell and Quirk last week while upsetting all-victorious Michigan State, so was a little more ready. _Play-by=play.eeeA tornadic south wind swept the field, practically limiting each club's offemse to two quarters....iMissouri recovered a Sooner fumble to go into a 7-0 lead in the second quarter after a drive of 30 yards, Kekeris goaling.,..this was the only touchdovm scored against the breoze....Paul Collins, Missouri s senior quarter, scored it on a quarterback sneak off the TeeeeOklahoma, with Johnny West, former OC Classen boy, in for Lebow and Max Culver of Muskogee in for Heard, tied the score 35 seconds before the half onded with a 65-yurd drive, Luster electing to spend Lebow's first play with the ball on the tiger once....Lebow bored over, Wooten goaling....7-7 at the half....Hell broke loose in the last half..e.ellost, a fine little rumner-passor, was hote...He quarterbacked and ran and threw the Sooners to a 55-yard touchd fom kickoff which Basil Sharp.scored on a six-yard cutback, Wooten g oalings.s.seA minute lator West roturnod a Missouri punt 23 yards to the Tiger 11, faking in and going wide, to the Missouri 10-yard linc....eCulver ran 9 on a re- verse, nearly scoring, and.then Luster elected to spend Lebow's last play and Lebow trotted in and did his stuff, bucking over from tho one....Wodten also did his stuff and Oklahoma led 21-7....3ut Missouri wasn't licked....Guining the swoeping wind in the fourth period, they rallied, capitalizing alertly on two Sooner crrors....one was an intercepted flat pass, Robinson picking off West's toss to run 40 yards to tho Oklahoma 3le..e.from there Collins jockoyed the “issouri T to a touchdowm in oight plays, most of them over our woakside with Kekeris and Stone, Tiger linesma, brush- blocking brilliantly,...Kokeris goulod....21=145.eeLater Sparkman slcied a short 10- yard kick out of bounds on the btimmmam Oklahoma 35 and Missouri drove to the tying touchdown in 12 plays, Collins scoring his third td. on tho qb. sneak....that put it up to Kekeris, the 273-pound Tiger fat boy tacklo.,.Kekcris laughed of f the pres- sure, booting the conversion over the north hedgoeeee"Kokoris was oasy to block, but sure hard to run around,” Thurman Tigart, our guard, doclared later, out of deference to the Tiger tackle's wide hipSeeeeFirst downs wore 11-6, Oklahoma....Net running yardage 124-104, Oklahoria....Paséing yardage, 84-22, Uklahoma,...Pass intercoption yardage 70-0, Missouri(thoy intorcepted four of West's passes), kick runbacks, Okla- homa, 167-894e.sponalties, Missouri, 35-20, Chaff.eeeCapt. Warren "Lefty" Morris, bascball chunker from Tulsa on Jap's and Yaer's team three years ago, won the Silver Star for gallontry in action off Tarawa(Lefty is a marine....the citation said: "Despite the wound in his shoulder, Captain Morris displayed courage and persistenco in continuing to lead scattered elements in re- peated attacks against enemy strongholds"...eLt. Don Sutliff of Blackwell, Sooner wrestler several years ago, is missing in action over Europe....Wimer of the Silver Star, Don has been missing in action twice béfore(in SW Pacific theater) but got back safely each time...e.Lt. Harold Tucker, Navy photokraphie ‘ace who shot movies of the Aleutions campaign and later was decorated, has been visiting on leave horéees Joe nos, Sooner catcher '42, is a Liason pilot in Italy, flying a cub for the artil~ leryeseeeLt. Lyle Smith, football end '40, is a pilot and flight leader on a Be24 in Foggia, Italy...seAnother Sooner rassler who can tell plenty about the Italian cam. paign is Capt. Warren Yunter of the Air CorpSeeeelriting from a NY APO, Capte Haro’c Fleetwood, ey" center '35, says:"If this rain holds out I may have to call in Teddy(Ted Uwen) to give me a rubdow....Il creak like a saw horse." for former Sooner athletes in the service, onlye Nove 21, 1944 OKLAHOMA 20, KANSAS 0 The LowdowneseseeThe boys won it with their vicious, slashing rumning, We drew a cold, gray day but there was no wind and the field was dry. after a bit of sparring the Sooners drove 33 yards to a touchdown in the first quarter, putting over the first scoring punch of the battle as they have all years Dub Wooten set it up by blocking Robison's punt. lLebow and Dollarhide marched that 33 yards mom fast with Lebow scoring from the one. Wooten goaled. 7-0. In the second quarter we nearly scored again with our backfield of Meason, Heard, Sharp and Sparkman, They began running off the T and it looked greate Sharp took a hand pass from Sparkman and shot around his left end for 37 yards to the Sansas 4, but the play was called back because sur backfield was in motion. The boys nearly scored anyhow when Heard ran 28 yards to the Sansas 11 off a T buck, but Sharp's fourth down buck was stopped en the one-foot line and it was 7-0 at half. Cklahoma received the second half kickoff and drove 65 yards to a touchdown without losing the ball, lLebow bucked for 9 and 7 Lebow flipped.a pass to Heard who made a leaping catch for 33 yards on the Kansas 31. Lebow passed to Sharp for 8, fake passed and ran 15, passed to Sharp for 8 more and Sparkman qb sneaked for the td. Wooten goalede i4nthe fourth quarter Tomny Meason, Ardmore freshman and our sub tailback, broke loose for 54 yards to the KU 17. Then Billy Wright, sub fullback, bootlegged around right end for the td. and this time Wooten missed. Our second teamwas in on this drive with Peddycoart at blocking back and Max Culver at wingback, Team StatisticSeeeefirst dowms, Oklahoma 12-11, Net yards rushed, Oklahoma 254103, Forward passing, Oklahoma hit 3 of 6 for 50, Sansas 8 of 16 for 62. Intercepted passes, Vklahoma 3 for 17, Kansas 1 for 0. Kick runbacks, “ansas 6 for 76, Oklahoma 3 for 34 Blocked punts, “klahoma 1, Fumbles that lost ball, Vklahoma 1. Penalty yardage: Uklahoma 23, “ansas 16.6 | ; ! Individual statisticseeseifeason 114 net yards rushing in 13 carries for average of 8.7 yards per carry, Lebow 70 net in 12 plays for 5,8, Wright 18 in 2 for 9, Dollar- hide 9 in 3 for 3, Heard 49 in 9 for 5.4, Sparkman 5 in 2, Weir 1 in 1, Sharp 5 in 3e Lebow hit 3 of 5 passes for 50(none intercepted). Chuck Moffett, Dwight Suther- land, Leroy Robison and Faulkner were tho Sansas backse They gavo us trouble ever now and then. Wygie, their big tackle, was tough up front, our linesmen said, Who playedseee0klahomi's starting lineup: Wooten and Dinkins, ends; Harley md Hal- Tett, tackles; Tigart and Tillman, guards; ilayfield, center; Lebow tb, Sparkman bb, Heard wb and Sharp fb. Our subs were Gambrill, Burgert and austin, ends; Al Stover (who is now 4-F) and Veorge “artin, tackles; Steve Sawyer and Elvin Jackson, guards; Bob Stover, center; and Backs Peddycoart, Culver, Dollarhide, Wright, Meason, Weir, Harpe Johnny West and Millard Cummings stayed home to get leg injuries ready for A and iil, Oklahoma's record this seasoneseel4, Norman Navy Zoomers 28, 21-14 over texas Aggies. lost 0-20 to +exas, won 68-0 over 4ansas State, won 34-19 over Texas Christian, won 12-7 over lowa State, tied wissouri 21-21, won 20-0 over Kansas, Pley Oklahoma aggies in Yklahoma City November 25(try KOMA of Oklahoma Vity, 1,520) and “ebraska in Uklahoma City Dece 2. BasketballeeeeBruce has Harold "Scooter" Nines, his 5-foot 6-inch freshman two yeaz ago, back as a Navy discharge....ealso, Bill Whuley, «a *ansas City boy who played last year with “epperdine College of Yalifornia, is hereee.e.sDon Buslow, Ed Linden- berg and Jack Landon, letteemen, returnesee&ll five these boys are little fellers... there is no other experienced talent nor outstanding highschool talent although Bruce is working hard to develop boys from the navy unit. Tuesday, Nov. 21(today) is first day of quail -hunting season but few can hunt because of scarcity of shotgun shells... this will be okay with the quail..e.it's a typical oklahoma autumn dey, cleur, cool and the ground soft from a big rain last week end.so swell for hunters if they hud shells und BuSeeeebdird dogs are pining aw 7, for former Sooner athletes in the service, only. Nove 23, 1944, YOUNG OVER TOKYO..«..In last week's raid by B-29s on Tokyo, Cupte Waddy Young, Ok- lahoma's All-American ed of 1938 from Ponca City, flew one of the giant American bombers... Young first completed all his missions over the Buropean continent, then -came back home to Pratt, Rans., and later Herington, and learned B-29s. "I'm going back again," he said. Just before he left Kansas for the Japunese theater, he wrote the athletic office here for the names of all the members of the Japunese university wrestling team that came through Norman in 1936 and wrestled a dual meet with Coach Paul V.Keen's Sooners. "I might have to talk my way out of that country and these names might come in handy,” the canny Young explained, OKLAHOMA AGGIES 238, SOONERS 6 THE LOWDOWN...eTheir line, which had been easy for everybody else to run on, oute played ours widely. "We couldn't run it, it could run us," was the way Dale Arbuck- le, our backfield coach, put it. The Aggies were bigger, mcaner and outplayed us decisively. ‘We stopped Bob Fenimore, their ace, pretty well, holding tm him to an average of 3.5 yards per carry rushing and limiting his longest guin from any means to 16 yards on u pass interception runback. 3ut he had 4 whole lot of help. The guy who wrecked us was Kalph Foster, a 230-pound dischurged Navy ensign who played three yoars of peacetime football against us in 1937-3 -59, Ralph played left tuckle for the Farmers, and played a lot of it. Also, he flipped us out of the powerful wind in the first quurter,. Jako Colhouer, their guard, und Noill Arm- strong, their end and quarterback, pluyed well us did their whole backfiold. John Harloy, our right tackle, pluyed a whale of a game, as usual. Bob Mayfield did okay at conter, stopping up the short middle. Charley Hoard tuckled ‘onimore a million times in tho secondary and Homer Sparkian's tackling helped. Louis Dollar- hide was our leading ball-toter with 60 yards in 5 carcies, an avorage of l2e PLAY=BY=PLAYeee-They struck us with everything in the first quarter, after they drew the torrific south wind. After un exchunge of kicks, they were on mam their 435 They drove 57 yards to a touchdown without giving up the pig, just short pun- ches with Fenimore lugging the ball on most pluys und gooso-stepping ucross tho goul for the touche idack Croager goaled, Later, Lebow kicked a low cannonball punt against the breeze. Vecil Hankins, Aggie defensive half, gloved it and boger running. Lebow and “asil Sharp both dove for him up -the fiold but collided und hoe stepped agilely over them and kept going 40 yards to score. Creager goaled, In the second quarter we got the wind and with Lebow leading the attack went inside their 15 three times and up to their four once, but always they held us. in the third quarter we had to gamble. We began throwing in the wind. They intercepted Shree passes. On one, thoy drove 41 yards to a touchdown with Fullback Jimmy Cpa~ ital barrelling over from the onée On another, John Gattis, their center, pluckor vohnny West's short pass back to the weakside out of the wind and with nobody tc ». ais path went 81 yards on the interception to score. Creager booted both goals. Ten Jim Lookabaugh, their coach, put in his second team and on Lebow's 27-yard cont return and Dollarhide's 38-yard weakside buck off a T play, we scored on the.r seconds, "Everything happens to a team that's getting beat," Snorter suid later. He missed the game, worrying himself into bed two duys before with whut Dr. Curti Berry culled u "suspicious chost knock and temperature." The statistics wore f.r downs 9-7, aggiese ‘urds rushing, 178-134, aggicse Passing. Sooners hit 7: of 12 for 56, Aggies 6 of 9 for 63. Punt runbacks, Sooners 104-40, Crowd at 0.C.Tar% about 15,000...-Field wis u little soft from Friduy's rains but the wind dried i+. It was the first Aggie victory over a Sooner team in eleven years, Whit Cox was on hand to deliver the bell-clapper over to them, The Aggies got the Cotton Bowl bid und will meet Texas Christian, Southwest Conference chumps, who have lost but one game this your, to the Sooners u month ago at OC laft, 34 to 19, Tulsa plays in the Orange Bowl uguinst Georgiu Teche We finish up a tough ten-gume schedule Saturday agiinst “ebruska and then our boys say they are going to bed. Thers wer- lots of good football teams in Yklahom this year. The best was the Norman Navy Zoomers who beat us 28-14 and beut the aggies 15-0. Tulsu declined u challenge fr.7 a 2 for former Sooner athletes in the service, only. Dec. 5, 1944, OKLAHOMA 31, NEBRASKA 12 : The lowdown....Our first team was too experienced and too good for Nebraska's kids (six of their starters are only 17, although husky). We played our first team most of the first half, led 25-0 at the half, The first team started the last heat, got a td. in three minutes, led 31-0 and saw very little action afterward as “ebraska licked our second team all over the field. Statistics...eFirst downs, Oklahoma, 9-8. Tet yards rushed, Oklahoma 108-92. Pass» ing, UkIahoma hit 7 of 10 for 132, “ebraska 4 of 16 for 78. Punt returns, Okla- homa 7 for 64, “ebraska 1 for 9, Total yards, Sklahoma 369-254, Penalties, Okla- homa 20-16, Play-byplaye...First quarter: Sooners drove 40 yards in seven plays to score with Lebow smashing over. Longest gain this drive a e2eyard pass, “ebow to Dollarhide, Wooten's conversion blocked by Center Keith Doyle of “ebraska, an outstanding lines. man, Sooners drove 65 to a second teuchdown, Tommy Meason, Ardmore fresnman and Lebow's sub, scoring it on a nine-yard cutback behind a solid block by Guard Thur- man Tigart who played a fine game, Longest plays this drive two insideM reverses by Charley Heard, 13 and 15 yards, and Meason s passes to Sparkman for 7 and Do] > achide for 7. Meased missed goal, 12-0. Third touchdown: Sparkman, our 149-15, qb, ran wide, faked a lateral; kept the ball, cut back in the secondary and sutran the Cornhuskers 20 yards to a touchdown, Wooten hit this one, 1940, dust before the half ended we drove 47 to a fourth touchdown, Meason passing 13 yards te Wooten who was all alone in the end zone, Previously Meason had eniped another pass to Wooten for 37 yards, Wooten sensationally taking the ball oway from Betz. Wooten missed goale 25-0, last half: We scored in three vlays, Noliashide scc7ri.- ing 3 yards off the T, Lebow trapped passing, had to run, made 2, then Lebow bu" l. etted the ball to Dinkins who ran 3]. yards to a touchdowa, Wooten's kick hit the post, 31-0, Nebraska drove 48 to a touch, Joe Kessler running 11 and Betz passing to Kessler for a td, 31 yards. ¥Berkey's kick was wide, 31-6, In the fourtheper ied they drove 60 in five plays to another, Collopy piunging 3 for it after Knight had reversed 25 to the three and fell down and Ban Perdew had hit two nice passes, Knight missed goal, 31-12, Thoy made another long drive at the bell which we stepped on our 4 only after Snorter sent the first team back ine Those Cornhusker kids were a frisky bunch. They were never licked, playing their best ball when five tds. behind, Oklahoma wins Big Six...eThe victory gave us another undispited Big Six title, our et ee second in a row, We had 4 wins, 1 tie, Iowa Stato second 3 wins, 1 loss, 1 +13. It was a weird season, Snorter's boys played more hulleguli football than ever vefore, breaking a 25-yoar scoring record at the university. Hewever they also were scored ont i49 ptse, 22 tds, ) more thar ary Oklahoma team of all time, and Poot bail is 50 years cé@d at Norman this years, We defeated Texas Ags 23-14, Kansas itate 68-0, Texas Christian(Southwest conference champions and meeS Okla. Ageios in Cotton 3ow1) 64-19, Iowa State 12-7, Kansas 20-0 and “ebraska 31-12, We 4057 to Norman Navy Zoomers 14-28, to Texas O0=20, to Aggies 6-28, Tied Missouri 21-21, Stuffese..The players autographed the Nebraska game ball with which they won the Big Six and it will be auctioned off between halves OU-SMU baskatball game herve Friday night to highest wer bond biddere..oJohn ?acots was hunting cuail. near Capshaw school house east cf town, started to biow nose, quail fist up under his feet, ska put the hanky in his mouth; upped his gun, fired twice; missed both shotseocsBrucs Drake's car stolen from in front of Fieldhouse last night..- Drake just left, accorr. panied by the sheriff, two detectives and a police dogeeseebut no clues yetese.epro>: abiy some of the basketball players just borrowed it to go down to the corneress- Three years ago Bruce lost another Ford V-8 in the South Canadian rivercoecsePlease lct us have your address changes as promptiy as possible.;. okesults first rourd class A Okla. HS football playoffs: Classen 20, Ardmore 0; Tulsa Central 12, Ada ¢:. Perry 22, Sand Springs 0; Altus 15, Lawton 0, This class A only. So long... for former Sooner athletes in the service, only. | Dec. 19, 1944, CHATTER..-.Our boys are all over the world and here are a few recent excerpts from their letters....from Capt. Waddy Young who piloted a super-fort on the first bomb- ing of Tokyo, "You know, I won two gallons of catsup from Col. “Pelly' Diltman, Texas A. and M. boy. © His s¢hool loyalty midled him. By the way, this catsup makes powdered eggs taste like real home cooking. The food here is fine and it is just that time. Speaking of ball team, dam that Tex. U. I guess that is wht I get for getting a little cocky."...efrom Bob Estep, who played five games with us this fall before being assigned by Navy to midshipman's school at USS Prairie State, New York city, "Remember Herb Smith? He is here and will get his commission Dec, 15. Also, rover Ramsey(all-Big Six basketball center last season for Oklahoma) is here with m€e Ask Dinkins, alias ‘Merle Pretty Curls,' if he doesn't think it. is atovt time so make a touchdown?"(Dinkins did, Bobby, in the finale against Nebraska. Levow 1.!* him with a pass and the redhead cut back through the secondary 35 yards for a touch: scooLte Thelton "Sonny" Wright, football and track star of 1941-42 who is now a uarime company commander at Camp ‘endleton and awhile back was decorated for oulline a comrade out of a river at night during maneuvers, finally wrote in. Asked about: the new company commandership, Son broke down and admitted it. "I have 337 men tc be a mother and father to. I teach them the drive and hustle method. They eat it upe I am also transportation and recreation officer, I am so pooped at night I can hardly find my shoe strings with both hands," Wright said....0ne of the earlis st shristmas cards this year came from Cliff Mell, our gritty little Texas broadjumver of 1931 who still holds the Big Six Indoor record and is now a litter-bearer in Rurope with the medical corps...-.Mell was always known for his native wit. Once he wes trying to make the American Olympic team in the hop, step and jump(there wer> tco many good colored boys among the broadjumpers). It was Mellts last jump ard +c still hadn't done as good as fourth place, necessary to make the team... He kapt yaising and waiting at the head of the straightaway, He had a reason. On thi other side of the field a couple of Californians were pole-vaulting for the worl records Mell waited until the attention of the big crowd, and also of the hop, step and jump officials, was on the pole-vaulter. As the latter ran down kis ro--- way with his pole on the east side of the stadium, Mell foxily sped down th« hep. step and jump runway on the west side of the stadium, unseen by his own judges wh. were watching the pole-vaulter. Mell hit the board, took a hop, TWO ymmmm steps °2. a jump, but still didn't go far enough to get that fourth place....Sgt. Billy Cross, an Army Air Force gunner just transferred to England(son of Bill Cross, Sooner quar - terback of '04-07 and business manager of athletics) writes, “ive have a stripped down fortress called the Green ilornet that crews use as a taxi to Paris and I am going to try to get over there once or twice before I come back, I haven't seen any of the boys recently but Bill Caldwell was a co-pilot in our group when I came over. Tell Bruce Drake if I have a chahce I'm going up to Scotland and take a look at som2 of their golf courses as they have some honeys."...sPvt. Bill "Chigger" Pruitt, crosscountry '45, was in the Battle of the Phillippines and described it as being like “a good football game, plenty of action," "However it has settled down to plenty of hard work now. I'm in the best physical condition that plenty of hard work and lots of sleep will put one. I feel like giving Vicklund a good run in the twom-mile, Ha. I am writing this by candle light and it is almost out."....Capt. Herb Scheffler, basketball '39-40, also sends Christmas greetings from the Philipp- ines. Herby a big 6-foot 3-inch left-handed rebounder deluxe who is still Okla- homa's greatest backboard rebounder of modern times and loved to rile enemy crowds, would have a picnic now that the 5-personal foul rule is in effect(for the first time this year)..,.Lt. Ken “Crow op" Farris, our Big Six champ broad-jumper who ir now a marine quartermaster, writes from eastern USA, “Had a swell visit with Stan Green and Butch Chancellor a couple of Sundays ago, They go to Quantico around the ord of Jan. Stan played six games with Ark. A&M while in V-l2 school this fall. We are planning a New Year's party with them. I see where Dub Lamb(who played with the Maxwell Field team this fall) was chosen on the powerful Bainbridge Commodores all-opponents team. I had a letter from Ray Mullen this week. He is at a transit center overseas(Pearl Harbor, I think; his address was an APO) and he and Kerbe). (Joe Kerbel of Seminole) were playing football on the transit center team. Recent”, for Oklahoma 1. Service men, sports, =~=2._ they met John Kimbrough's team. and were beaten O#-7 but Moon said they stopped Big John cold. Moon said Greathouse(Myrle Greathouse, wounded on Guam) tried out for the team but on account of his injury(shot through legs) couldn't make it yet. I also had a letter from Tom Rousey(another marine hoopster). He went all through Palau and said it was really hell. Said he got through okay but accidently fell into a fix hole and skinned his face upe".eeeShorts....Lt. Lonny Chapman, our Okla- homa AAU mile champ three years ago, got his gold bars at Quantico, after going through Guadacanal, whipping malaria. Lonny'’s buddy, Lt. Jon "Big John" Sharp, now a pilot still operating in the air over Belgium, writes that he is “still alive and in excellent health."...eEldon Forguson, our crosscountry rambler from Tulsa, and Ivan Evans, ditto, from Putnam City, AAF reserves recently called, are at Keese ler Field, Miss, They report that “everybody has a cold dom here due to the cli- mate. “+t's knowm as ‘Mississippi Misery' or 'Keesler T,B, Instructors who have been here two and three years say they have never gotten rid of their coldse".e.es Keesler is pretty close to Louisiana which reminds of a good story. A sentry marches daily around the tomb of deceased governor Huey Long, erstwhile dictator of Louisiana. ._A spectator asked the sentry what he was trying to do patrolling the ~lace, keep people from getting into Huey's tomb? "Hell no," the sentry is said to have replied, “I'm here to see that Huey don't get out,".seeLt. Frank Spence has been moved from Ireland to England.» "I've seen a few of the busz bombs and several shot down by fighter planes at night. I-always stand close to a nice shel- tor when I am cheering on the fighter planes," Red wrote, "I miss the beautiful timmr lrish scenery, hospitality and steaks andeggs but I still can't complain because I'm not sleeping in a fox holes se.sLte( jg) Al O'Horwitz, our rassling Hebrew, is now asst. publice relations director at Norfolk after several months service in the 4talian, Indian and Southern France theaters(with amphib).,..3ill Van Dyke,with the Navy at stonolulu, was married to a California girl recently...eNovel Wood, our big center of '38-39-40, is now a major with a bombing squadron in the Pacificeese. Capt. Johnny Jacobs jre, son of the Sooner track coach, now has a NY APO.,.-Mitch Shadid is now at Lemoore, Calif,..,Lt. Pete Vawthon is back at Camp Hood, Texase.ce Lt. ge) Dick Smethers, our four-time Big Six 2-mile champ, recently got a 40-day leave after 17 months as executive officcr of a mine sweeper in the Aleutions. What did he do after arriving but have to have his appendix cut out at the Navy hospital at Norman. Three weeks later he checked out a track suit from “ake and was running on the roadS.,eeiic is now at a minecraft training center in Virginia «eeeAndy "Cueball" Cary, our Big Six 880 outdoor champ from Duncan(first freshman ever to Win a Big Six running title), is now an ensign at Fort Pierce, Fla., living in a temt on the beaches.eeeLt.( jg) Paul Updegraff, No, 1 Sooner sports fan now in the Navy, recently developed pneumonia at Gulfport, Miss,( there goes that Mississ. p: Misery again) but recevered and is now at Armed Guard school] in NorfolkeeesMajor Horace “Happy” Poole sent a Christmas card from Europe. He is witha troop carrie Winfe.s.eueorge Soudreau now has a Frisco FPO....Please give us your address changes as promptly as possible and also send us chatter about yourselves and any other Sooners you gee....every guy overseas will get his stuff mailed to him air mail. CLUANING UP FOOTBALL....Oklahoma this year won its second ¥ig Six conference title in a row and kept inviolate a string of 13 consecutive conference games without defeat...eNo Big Six team has licked us since Nebraska put over that 7-0 deal here in 1942...eThurman Tigart, our guard, made the Omaha Worldeterald's all-Big Sixeeece The Sooners played hull-gull football this autumn, breaking a ¢S5-year record by scoring 227 points and 54 touchdowns, the most Oklahoma has made in a single season since 1919....However Uelahoma this year permitted her opponents an all-time record high of 149 points and 22 touchdowns and football at Norman was 50 years old this fall.esethe 6-28 defeat to Jim Loowabaugh's “kc Lahoma Aggies was our first loss to an Aggie team in eleven years, since Lynn Waldorf's Farmers walloped us here in 1933 by a score of 13-0...eafter the season, Oklahoma turned down a bid to meet the Second Air Force Super-bombers in the Sun Bowl at El Paso, TexeeeseDale Arbuckl said, after refusing the bid, "Tho Navy's 48-hour rule forbade our playing it(most of our boys are V+l2s and NROTCs). Besides our squad is tired from its long, hard for Oklahoma U. sports service men, only--=3 10-game schedule and we have achieved our season's objective, the winning of the Big Six championship."...sWe have a new “ig Six faculty representative, Drs John Hervey, dean of the law school..s:.The Big Six in December voted to permit its coaches to initiate correspondence and interviews with prospective highschool ath- | letes, and to offer them scholarships already available to other students....big surprise in view of their previous conservatism.,seeJohn Jacobs, our track coachy expressed everybody's feelings when he commented, "They brought the rule down to the custom."...eSnorter, who was ill with flu through much of the past seasons went to the texas gulf coast for 10 days early in December and came back tanned by the Texas sunshine(that's two tannings we got in Texas this fall) and six pounds heav- LeYesea BASKETBALL. »seOur Roundball Runts(they average about 5810 and 160 now) split two games since the last letter..seDrake can still win the close ones.,..He beat Sonsas one point at “awrence last year and Missouri one point at Columbia....sLast week he beat SMU one point at Norman and this week he beat the Norman Navy doomers one point here 39-58...siiowever we lost to the all-victorious lowa Pre-Flight Seahawks at Sansas City's Municipal auditorium Saturday Dec. 16 by a score of 52-40, Tonight we meet Phillips university of Enid here. They held SOONER BOX, ZOOM@R GAME Hank Iba's Aggies to a 46-37 win at Enid recentlyssee FG FT PF In the Sooner-Zoomer game they led us 25-22 at the half Hines, f 4 3-5 1 and picked up a nine+point lead on us in the last half. Lindenberg, f 3 2-2 O We were playing without Jack Landon, our lone returning Whaley, f 1 0-0 O starter from last year, and needed hime But the kids Johnson, c 4 1-3 0 rallied. Krouse salted away a free throw, Buelow fed Krouse, g 0 1+2 3 Hines for a goal, Lingy fired in a long goal, bindy fed Buelow, ¢& 1 O-0 2 Brinegar for a side shot. They scored a rebounder over Brinegar, & 3 QO-l1 3 our heads but Hines fed Yohnson for a bucket and Lindy totalsvev,esseeel6 7-15 9 hit two free throws in a row to put us ahead one point with 4 min, to go. With : ; 135 to go) Herron fed Yubb- SOONER BOX, SEAHAWK GAME art for a field goal and they led us 58-37, But GS FF fF our boys took it down the court carefully and Bill Hines, f 6 3-4 2 Whaley, our new transfer from Pepperdine who has Lindenberg, f e Owl 3 been out two weeks with an injured back(he fell Whaley, f . wa 3 in practice) whipped in a long goal from the Robison, ¢ O O-O0 2 side to win it for us. We froze the ball until Landon, ¢£ > Bue 3 the bell...sbut it was as close as Whaley's burr Johnson, g 2 ie & haircuteessein the Seahawk game they had too much Buelow, g GO ge .@ height and experienced class....stspecially did Brinegar, ¢g O d=d 1 they our rebound us....they got 18 offensive totalss>sseses3%-14 1c-16 14 rebounds to our three..,aie led them off and on Potts, Crow and Krouse also all through the first half, holding them without played, a field gool until five minutes were gone, but they got away from us with a hot rebounding spurt at the end of the first half and the start of the second, breaking out for 17 points to our 1 during this period, At the half they led 24-17, two minutes later they were in front 52-17....then our boy: awoke and controlled them some better...eiry, their forward from the Univ. of South Carolina, pitched in eight gools but their star was Joe ftolland, a 63 center from Benton, Kye who played last year at Berea(Ky.) college...slie could jump into the air like a high-jumper and really controlled the rebounds» He also stuck in 7 baskets..,eThat lack of height is going to hurt us all year so we just as well aal get used to it.ss.s0n Friday Yeo, 22 at Yklahoma City's Municipal auditorium we meet Pentathlon Militar of Mexico City, the Mexican West “oints.,.their publicity man is on the ball and has sent us pictures and paragraphs on their best mens..,luis Cortez he calls “good in the quick break sets"...eRodolfo Mercado “middle distance both hands shot."....Ignacio Ceballos(195) "slow because the weight. Enthusiastic aggre: sivenesss".seedngel Paz "The necessary man in the reare".seeGuillermo Olivera, “Bro agility. The nightmare of the opponent team."...,4t that, he does a mugh better jol than we could trying to describe our boys in Spanishs So long, Merry Christmass