Monday, Oct. 18, 1954
University Daily Kansan
Page 5
Oklahoma Tops KU With Record Score
By JACK LINDBERG
Kansan Sports Editor
The Oklahoma Sooners showed 29,000 football fans at Memorial stadium Saturday why they are rated the No. 1 team in the nation. Displaying deception, running power, and depth, the Sooners soundly defeated the Kansas Jayhawks 65-0, the most points a Bud Wilkinson coached team has ever racked up against any opponent.
After a closely contested first quarter, when the Sooners scored only one touchdown, that the rest of the Sooners opened their offensive machine to full throttle and scored nine TD's in the final three periods.
The Jayhawks played very good ball against the strong favorites in the first period. Although KU never got its offense working properly, it held the Sooners in check the first period, and most of the second.
Once the Okies started scoring, though, there was nothing Kansas could do to halt the touchdown parade. From the middle of the second quarter to the end of the game, the Sooners ripped the KU line for long gains. The Oklahoma backs ran for 535 yards from scrimmage. Last year the Sooners rushed for 537 yards as they defeated the Jayhawks 45-0.
OU's most exciting scoring play was undoubtedly quarterback Jim Harris' 91-yard run. The KU players had Harris stopped at least three times on the play, but couldn't hold him. As usual, tremendous downfield blocking cleared the way.
This was the worst defeat a Kansas team has ever suffered. In 1942 the Iowa Preflight Seahawks topped KU 61-0. This was also the worst conference defeat administered to the Jayhawks. OU downed KU 60-7 in 1948 for the former high.
An oddity in the game took place after Oklahoma scored its last touchdown. Coach Chuck Mather sent center Dick Reich into the
seals that Kansas would kickoff rather than receive the kick. The team that has been scored upon has the option to receive or kick off, and usually the team receives. Coach Mather's theory seems to have been it was better to put Oklahoma in its own territory, and make it fight the clock for another touchdown, rather than get the ball in Kansas territory and perhaps fumble or have a pass intercepted, which would put OU closer to the goal. The game ended with the ball on the KU two-yard line, and the gamble, nailed, off.
It is possible that if Wilkinson had used his entire traveling squad,
Statistics
| | KU | OU |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| First downs | 6 | 26 |
| Rushing | 3 | 22 |
| Passing | 2 | 2 |
| Penalties | 1 | 2 |
| Net yards rushing | 37 | 535 |
| Forwards completed | 16 | 8 |
| Forwards completed | 3 | 2 |
| Net yards forwards | 23 | 37 |
| Intercepted | 1 | 2 |
| Punts | 7 | 1 |
| Punts, average | 39 | 36 |
| Fumbles | 5 | 6 |
| Fumbles lost | 5 | 2 |
| Pouties | 8 | 8 |
| Yards lost penalties | 80 | 85 |
SCORE BY FIELDS
Kansas 0 0 0 0 0
Oklahoma 0 7 19 13 26-65
Big 7 Standings
Conference
| | W | L | Pct. | PF | PA |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Colorado | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 47 | 0 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 65 | 0 |
| Missouri | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 35 | 7 |
| Nebraska | 1 | 1 | .500 | 42 | 21 |
| K. State | 1 | 1 | .500 | 14 | 38 |
| I. State | 1 | 2 | .333 | 47 | 65 |
| Kansas | 3 | 0 | .000 | 6 | 125 |
All Games
Colorado 5 0 1.000 194 18
Oklahoma 4 0 1.000 128 36
K. State 4 1 8.00 84 64
Nebraska 2 2 .500 76 47
Missouri 2 2 .500 61 77
I. State 2 3 .400 95 98
Kansas 5 0 .500 19 184
Forest Peters Montana freshman, kicked 17 field goals in a single game against Billings Poly in 1924. Peters drop kicked the 17 field goals.
the Sooners could have scored 100 or more points. Midway through the second quarter, Wilkinson started a stream of substitutes into the game. By the middle of the third period the OU third team was playing, and this unit finished the game.
It is interesting to note that near the end of the third period Kansas made two straight first downs against the OU third team, and Wilkinson got his first team ready to re-enter the contest. A Kansas fumble halted the drive, however.
UpsetsScored In Pro League
—Kansan photo by Harold Tretbar
ALMOST GOT AWAY—Ralph Moody, Kansas halfback, goes off-tackle in the first period against Oklahoma Saturday and almost got into the open. Moody was finally stopped by OU's fullback, Jerry Tubbs (No. 53). Two unidentified Sooner players slowed Moody down, as KU end, Don Martin (No. 85), made an unsuccessful attempt to block both OU men.
By UNITED PRESS
The Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers, relatively soft touches for the top teams in recent National football league seasons, popped up yesterday with the biggest surprise triumphs of the campaign.
The Detroit Lions (3-0), the San Francisco Forty-Niners (3-0-1), and the Philadelphia Eagles (4-0) still are leading the respective divisions after the weekend action. But Jim Finks and Tobin Rote, a pair of "old pro" quarterbacks, made the top news by passing Pittsburgh and Green Bay to revenge victories over the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams.
Finks, playing with his battered face protected by a mask, tossed three touchdown passes to lead Pittsburgh to a 55-27 victory over Cleveland.
Rote has had trouble with his throws this season, but he threw three TD passes and ran for another as Green Bay whipped Los Angeles. 35-17.
In the other Sunday games, Adrian Burk threw seven TD passes as the Eagles remained first in the Eastern race with a 49-21 victory over the Washington Redskins; the Forty-Niners defeated the Chicago Bears, 31-24; and the New York Giants downed the Chicago Cardinals, 31-17.
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