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