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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 4, 1963
KU's Football Team Worries Oklahoma's Joe Don Looney
NORMAN, Okla. — (UPI) — Joe Don Looney, Oklahoma's cut-and-shoot left halfback who was too light to play much high school football, is up to 224 pounds now and running better than ever.
That's a tall order for the Fort Worth senior whose heroics earned him wide acclaim last year, his first in Sooner togs. Before that, he sparked Cameron Junior College to victory in the Little Rose Bowl with his devastating power running.
Looney added 17 pounds of muscle during the summer and lost none of his speed. After playing only briefly and carrying the ball just once in the Clemson opener because of a cramping leg muscle, Looney returned to form and led Oklahoma to a 17-12 upset of Southern California last Saturday to push the Sooners atop the first United Press International poll of the season.
"I HAD A LITTLE trouble with my leg last week," he said. "But I think I'll be able to go full speed against Texas."
The Sooners play third-ranked Texas a week from Saturday. Oklahoma is idle this Saturday.
"I don't know how we'll do the rest of the season—I just don't know," Looney said. "The way Kansas and everybody are going, they're going to give their all to beat us."
KU Expands Sports Slate
KU will have varsity teams in wrestling and gymnastics this year, A.C. (Dutch) Lonborg, director of athletics, said yesterday.
Dwayne Hall, director of the Kansas Union Food Service has been named wrestling coach.
KU has not had wrestling as a varsity sport for about 30 years. Lonborg said competition would be on a limited basis, meaning there would be four or five dual meets and competition in the Big Eight wrestling meet.
Bob Lockwood, a KU graduate, has been re-appointed as gymnastics coach. Gymnastics has been on a club basis for several years. The gymnastics team will participate in several dual meets and compete in the conference meet.
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Looney, who won the national punting championship and was all-Big Eight last season, is one-half of Oklahoma's thunderous running attack, teaming with 211-pound fullback Jim Grisham of Olney Tex., to not only give Bud Wilkinson the biggest backfield he has ever coached, but also the best ground punch Oklahoma has had since its national championship days of the mid-50s.
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JOE DON came to Oklahoma with a famous football heritage. His father, Don Looney, was Davey O'Brien's favorite target at Texas Christian back in 1937 and 1938.
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But he was too light to play football in high school until his senior year when he got up to 170 pounds. By the time he arrived on the Oklahoma campus last fall, he had reached 207. Working with weights this summer, he grew to 224.
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