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University Daily Kansan
Thursday. Oct. 18, 1962
Oklahoma Lacks Offense
NORMAN, Okla. — (Special) — Development of more offensive punch is Oklahoma's need as the Sooners head into the 60th annual Kansas game Saturday at Lawrence.
Defense and kicking appear Oklahoma's strengths. But the offense, hamstruck by injuries to so many key backs, managed but six first downs and 71 yards rushing against Texas and faces more trouble this week from Kansas' furiously attacking line.
It's a battle between rival sophomoric outfits. Each team retains only two starters from last year. Oklahoma will employ 11 sophomores in its two playing units, KU will use eight. This count includes Charles Mayhue, Oklahoma's defensive specialist from Ada, Okla., and Ron Oelschlager, Kansas' defensive ace from Marion, Kan.
Although Oklahoma's record stands only 1-2, the Sooner defense against Texas was rock-ribbed and
Record Dates to 1905
By Harold Keith
OU Sports Publicity Director
His blond tresses rippling in the warm wind, Leonard Runbeck, Oklahoma's Swedish center from Linsborg, Kan., belted the kickoff 68 yards to the Kansas 2-yard line.
That was a mistake. Arthur Charles "Bert" Pooler, Kansas' fancy-stepping quarterback who was nicknamed after Dr. Bert Kennedy, the Kansas dentist-coach, had plenty of time to cuddle the old roundish ball to his blue jersey and pick his path through Coach Bennie Owen's Oklahoma Boomers who with chins jutted out menacingly, followed Runbeck's long kickoff up the limestone gridiron at old McCook field in Lawrence.
**POOLER AVOIDED** the charging Oklahomaans as though they were process-servers, running back Rumbeck's boot 108 yards to a touchdown. That was 1905 and football fields then were 110 yards long.
Pooler, a law student from the shortgrass town of Beloit, died in 1938 but his feat still stands as the longest kickoff return of all Kansas-Oklahoma football history and the
Sooners and Jayhawkers have been playing since 1903.
Series records Coach Jack Mitchell's Jayhawks and Coach Bud Wilkinson's Sooners will shoot for at Lawrence Saturday are:
Most points-24 by George "Junior" Thomas, Oklahoma 1949.
Most net yards rushing—215 by Buck
Qeahli, Oklahoma.
McPhail, Oklahoma 1951.
Longest rush—91 yards by Jimmy Har-
Longest Kansas rush-75 yards by Gray 1914.
1914. Not net yards rushing, team-537 by Oklahoma. 1953.
Oklahoma 1953.
Most net yards passing—288 by Oka-
Most net yards passing -288 by Oklah-
oma 1914.
Completed passes -15 by Jerry
Most completed passes—15 by Jerry Robertson, Kansas 1951.
Most yards completed passes -288 by Spot Geyler, Oklahoma 1915.
Spot Geyer, Oklahoma 1915.
Longest punt_run_back—73 yards by
26.4 yards.
Darrej biggest kickoff runback—108 yards by Bert Pooler, Kansas 1905.
Bert Poldt, pass interception runback 183
yards by Frank McCain, Oklahoma 1916.
Longest field goal -45 yards by Cliff
Poldt, Oklahoma 1922.
Longest punt-91 yards by John Hadl. Kansas 1959.
Kansas '15.
Louisville, Massing gain—60 yards,
Bob Gough, Kansas, to John Bigham 1943.
Most received passes = 5 by John Birgin, Kansas 1943 and Bill Schake, Kansas
Most yards received passes—116 by Max Boydston. 1952. Ohio.
Most pass interceptions—3 by Red Conkirknet, Oklahoma 1936.
violent. Coach Darrell Royal's Longhorns could not score by rushing although they gained 198 yards.
Oklahoma's pass defense, with backs Mayhue, Paul Lea and Virgil Boll of Wichita, Kan., entrusted up the deep responsibility, broke up the first five Texas passes and held the Longhorns to a total of 21 yards through the air. No opponent has yet scored aerially on Coach Bud Wilkinson's new team.
Ralph Wolfson, Mgr. Vernie Wilson, Asst. Mgr.
743 Mass. — VI 3-4366
WILL THE YOUNG Sooners be up for the blazing Kansas challenge? Oklahoma's mental eagerness for the back-to-back Notre Dame and Texas contests was right at the peak of what coaches can ask of players. But both games were lost. Can Oklahoma play with the same hunger a third straight week?
The backfield casualty report remains discouraging. Halfback Jackie Cowan, who sped 46 yards to almost score against Syracuse and bucked 13 to Notre Dame's 3 in the final moments to almost save that game, is believed lost for the season because of a freak knee twist. Right half Melvin Sandersfeld, out of the Syracuse and Irish games with an ankle sprain, re-hurt the ankle against Texas.
Jim Grisham, sophomore fullback, leads the Sooner defensive chart through the first three games with 37 unassisted tackles, followed by right guard Leon Cross 20, halfback Charles Mayhue 13 and halfback Virgil Boll 10.
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