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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