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.