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University Daily Kansan Monday, Oct. 19, 1953
Strong Sooners Blast Jayhawks 45-0
Oklahoma Sets Rushing Mark As Kansas Defense Slumps
By CLARKE KEYS
Kansan Executive Editor
Norman, Okla.—An Oklahoma tornado struck the Kansas football team here Saturday and left the Jayhawkers bewildered in the wake of a 45-0 onslaught that set the Sooners of OU on the way to another Big Seven title.
Kansas was never in the game. Larry Griff scored the first Oklahoma touchdown with slightly more than three minutes gone and the Sooners added two more touchdowns in the next nine minutes to wrap it up early.
In the process of grinding KU down, OU used one of the fiercest running attacks in conference history to gain 537 yards rushing. That was a new Oklahoma record by more than 100 yards. As you might guess, the Sooners didn't need a passing attack and they added only 15 yards through the air on two completions out of six tries.
Oklahoma played hard both ways, holding the Kansas offense to 101 yards, rushing and 31 passing. The Kansans made only one serious threat to score when they rolled 65 yards to the Sooner 15-yard line late in the second quarter, but Oklahoma held them on downs.
None of the seven Oklahoma scores were flukes. With Grigg, Gene Calame, and the other OU backs running hard behind the fast Sooner team, they dominated drives of 56, 57, 62, 65, 75, 79, and 95 yards for the tallies.
The only time Oklahoma got a break, a pass interception deep in KU territory, was the only time the Kansas defense showed any semblance of effectiveness.
The game marked the first time since late 1944 that the Jayhawkers had been shut out in a conference game. Missouri turned the trick in the last game that year, 28-0, after Iowa State and Oklahoma had done it earlier.
Defense was deplorable on the part of the Jayhawkers. The amazing Sooner speed gave the Kansans very few shots at the ball carriers and time and again the Oldahoma backs broke loose after being hit by a defender.
The KU line, which had been the strong point in Kansas play through the first four games of the year, never had a chance. Previously KU opponents had started catching up in the late stages of the game after the thin Jayhawker forces started tiring, but Oklahoma gained 228 yards in the first 10 minutes of the game to set the fashion.
The revitalized Sooner backfield, which found itself against Texas a week ago, used that old Bud Wilkinson formula of speed to great advantage. Calame was a master of deception from the quarterback post and the indecisiveness he caused gave the runners the good start.
Grigg finished as the leading rusher with 156 yards on 12 carries. To top it off, the Sooner halfback completed two short passes, both for touchdowns. Calame added 100 yards to the Sooner cause and 12 other Oklahomaans finished with plus yardage. Only Buddy Leake, who started the first two OU games at quarterback, failed to gain.
On the first play from scrimmage Tom Carroll ripped off 15 yards and the rush was on. Calame .then kept for 23 yards and Carroll went for 18 more. Grigg went over for the score,from the one to climax the drive. Calame kicked the point to make it 7-0.
After Calame returned a KU punt 22 yards moments later, Oklahoma which still must play five more conference games, started again. The first play netted 41 yards with Grigg carrying and the third play saw fullback Bob Burris scoring from five yards out.
Once again the Jayhawkers couldn't pick up a first down and Ralph Moody got off the second straight fine punt. A clipping penalty set the Sooners back to their 5-yard line, but that didn't slow them up.
Grigg once again proved to be the big gun, running for 66 yards to the KU 22. Oklahoma moved inside the 10 for another first down,
Hawks Win 23rd Cross Country
The Kansas cross country team, with speedy Wes Sante setting the winning prize. Friday won its first meet of the season and its 23rd consecutive meet. Kansas won with 17 points, Oklahoma A&M took second on its own course with 24, and Texas came up in the rear with 36.
Santee, holder of the American mile record, covered the 3-mile course in 15:05, just 15 seconds ahead of second place finisher, teammate Art Dalzell. Third was the Cowpokes' Sture Landgvist in 15:37.
Other finishers were Fred Eckoff, A&M; Henry Geller, A&M; Al Frame, KU; Tom Rogers, Texas; Dick Wilson, KU; Incensia Cunti, Texas; and Elbert Spence, Texas.
The second meet of the season, a dual against Drake, will be held here next Monday at 4 p.m.
but the Kansas defense stiffened. On fourth down, however, Grigg hit end Carl Allison with a 7-yard pass for the third touchdown of the period. For the second straight time the kick was wide.
Kansas consumed most of the time in the second quarter with its one threat. Starting on their own 20-yard line, the Jayhawkers churned their way slowly to the OU 15. The Sooner regulars returned to stop the move, though.
Quarterback John McFarland passed to Hirold Patterson for eight yards to start the drive. Patterson grabbed the ball just as he was falling to the ground. It was Patterson again several plays later who moved the ball nearing the goal on an end-around play that covered 18 yards.
Oklahoma scored again in 10 plays in the third quarter, then really turned things into a rout with three more scored in the final period. TheOU second string moved 79 yards for the first tally with Bob Herndon scoring. Things didn't slow down as more reserves entered the game, for the Sooners soon marched 62 yards to pay dirt.
With the fourth team in at most positions, Oklahoma scored the final touchdown with 38 seconds left in the game.
It was the first conference loss for Kansas in three tries and left the Jayhawkers with a 2-3 season mark
KU OU
First downs 6 23
Rushing yardage 101 537
Passing yardage 31 15
Passes attempted 12 6
Passes completed 5 2
Passes intercepted 0 2
Funts 7 1
Punting average 37.4 10
Fumbles lost 0 1
Penalties 2 4
Yards penalized 10 30
GAME STATISTICS
The Nov. 4 issue of People Today magazine will have a story on KU distance ace Wes Santee, the second national magazine within a month to carry a story on the all-American runner. The story, in the issue which will be released Oct. 21, is entitled, "Santee Gallops On."
Santee Story in Magazine
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ONE MORE PLAY NEEDED—Larry Grigg, Oklahoma halfback, is tackled one yard short of the Kansas goal line in action in Norman Saturday. On the next play, Grigg again cracked the Jayhawker line and scored the first of Oklahoma's seven touchdowns. In the background is quarterback Gene Calame, who handed off to
Grigg. The KU tackler is Bud Bixler
Big7 Makes 2-YearPact
Miami —(UP)— The Orange Bowl's tieup with the Atlantic Coast and Big Seven conferences projected Maryland and Oklahoma today as the likely opponents for the annual New Year's Day football tussle.
The agreement that the two conferences will furnish their champions to the Orange Bowl for the next two years was announced in Miami late yesterday. The pact had been extended after Big Seven faculty officials gave final approval at a meeting in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday.
Officials of the newly-formed Atlantic Coast group accepted the plan at a closed meeting in Durham, N.C., last week.
Undefeated Maryland in the Atlantic Coast and once beaten, once tied. Oklahoma from the Big Seven were favored to win their conference championships and meet next Jan. 1 in the first game under the new agreement. Should there be a tie for the conference title, conference officials would choose the bowl team. The Big Seven is made up of Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Iowa State and Colorado.
BIG SEVEN STANDINGS
| | W | L | T | Pt | Op |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas State | 3 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 36 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 0 |
| Kansas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 66 |
| Missouri | 1 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 29 |
| Iowa State | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 49 |
| Nebraska | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Colorado | 0 | 1 | 0 | 51 | 82 |
ALL GAMES
| | W | L | T | Pt Op |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas State | 4 | 1 | 0 | 138 50 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 1 | 1 | 92 49 |
| Missouri | 2 | 1 | 0 | 60 76 |
| Iowa State | 2 | 3 | 0 | 60 84 |
| Kansas | 2 | 3 | 0 | 57 98 |
| Colorado | 2 | 3 | 0 | 191 168 |
| Nebraska | 3 | 1 | 0 | 92 98 |
| Total | 15 | 17 | 5 | 538 50 |
Scores last weekend: Kansas State 28, Colorado 14; Iowa State 13, Missouri 6; Oklahoma 45, Kansas 0; Nebraska 20, Miami 16.
Games this Saturday; SMU at Kansas; Colorado at Oklahoma; Nebraska at Missouri; Wichita at Kansas State; Iowa State at Drake.
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Seven schools broke with the Southern conference this year to form the Atlantic Coast group. They were Maryland, Wake Forest, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Duke, Clemson and South Carolina. Virginia became an eighth member recently but isn't competing in conference football this season.
Orange Bowl officials immediately
began drawing up a contract which they said would be signed "sometime before the football season is over."
Many details of the agreement remain to be worked out, including whether a team would be permitted to appear in the bowl two years in a row, seating arrangements, and which team will appear as host.
The top ten high school grid teams in the state this week, as rated by the Topeka Daily Capital, are Arkans City, Wyandotte, Wichita East, Topeka, Lawrence, Shawnee-Mission, McPherson, Coffeyville, St. Joseph's, and Salina.
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