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."