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

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