University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1953
OU Coach Risks Big 7 Win Streak
By DON NIELSEN
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Sooner Coach Bud Wilkinson will bring an unbeaten record in Big Seven play with him when Oklahoma meets the Jayhawkers here Saturday.
Since he has been head coach at Oklahoma, Sooner squares have won 26 games, lost none, and tied two in Big Seven conference play. He is starting his sixth year as head coach at Oklahoma, and has an all-time record there of 48 wins, 6 losses and 1 tie, and a 31 game winning streak.
Wilkinson recently signed a new 10-year contract at Oklahoma which lasts through 1962. He came to Oklahoma as a backfield coach, but when Head Coach Jim Tatum resigned, in 1946, Bud was immediately picked to succeed him.
In the AP poll the Sooners were picked as fifth in 1948, second in 1949, first in 1950, and 10th in 1951.
Last year's Oklahoma eleven finished 10th in the AP poll and as a result became the only college in history to make the country's top 10 teams four years in a row.
Last year Coach Wilkinson was named AP Coach of the Year after the 1950 Sooners had won the national collegiate championship and placed in first in both the AP and UP polls.
A tough Oklahoma eleven tied Kansas for first in the Big Six in 1947 under Wilkinson and since then the Sooners had topped the conference for four straight years.
Coach Wilkinson is a tall, (6 foot 2 inch) blond fellow who has appeared throughout the nation as a lecturer and as a speaker at numerous coaching schools. He is the chairman of boys' School. Spilt T Football, which outlines the strategy behind the Oklahoma offense.
Coach Wilkinson has put teams in the Sugar Bowl three years in succession. In 1949 the Sooners defeated North Carolina 14-6 in the first of these encounters, and in 1950 and 51, the Sooners beat Louisiana State 35-0 and lost to Kentucky 13-7.
Before signing at Oklahoma, Wilkinson was an assistant coach at Syracuse, Minnesota, and Iowa Pre-Flight.
He was graduated from Minnesota university in 1937, where he played guard and quarterback for the Golden Gophers. After his graduation, he quarterbacked the College All-Stars to their first victory against the pro champs of 1937, the Green Bay Packers.
The Kansas Jayhawkers will be up and ready to knock Coach Wilkinson off his pedastal come Saturday,
BUD WILKINSON Sooner Coach
though. For the last three years, the Jayhawkers have been the serious threat to Oklahoma supremacy in the Big Seven, but have never quite been able to pull the big upset.
In 1950, and again in 1951, Kansas scared the Mighty Sooners, but just didn't have the needed knock-out punch. In fact, KU led Oklahoma 13-7 and 21-20 going into the fourth quarter in the '50 and '51 games respectively. In fourth quarter homeestretch drives, Wilkinson's powerhouses turned on the steam to roll to 13-33 and 21-33 victories.
But this year, KU's seniors get a final and third opportunity to chalk up the greatest win in Jayhawker grid history.
And these seniors are all set to "shoot the works" in an all out attempt to dethrone the title-bound Sooners. Nothing short of a sound truncing of Wilkinson's troops will satisfy them. The Jayhawkers say, "This is the year."
The Jayhawkers also have an added incentive to win Saturday's big game. Kansas will be out to extend its nine-game winning streak—the longest winning string since 1909.
The Sooners are favored to win Saturday's contest, but if ever a Kansas eleven felt like an upset, this is the year.
Jayhawkers Run Offense, Defense In Scrimmages
After one of the longest offensive scrimmages this season yesterday, Coach J. V. Sikes intends to run his Jayhawkers through heavy defensive drills today as the all-important Sooner clash approaches.
Only two Jayhawker players, Warren Woody, center, and Frank Sabatini, fullback, were slowed down by knee injuries. At present they are the only two players on the injured list, but they are expected to see action Saturday.
Barring further injuries, the Kansas team will be in its best condition of the year for the Oklahoma encounter.
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Columbia, Mo.—(U.P.)—Coach Don Faurot and the Missouri Tigers prayed for warmer weather today, as they prepared for Saturday's game at Stillwater, Okla., with the Oklahoma Aggies.
Faurot bemoaned the poor practice weather yesterday as the team worked out in cold drizzle for three hours.
He said that if weather continued to be bad, the Tigers would be handicapped when they play in the more southernly climate at Stillwater Saturday.
The Tigers will concentrate on defense today, while a 28-man team takes the day off. The B squad leaves tomorrow morning for Springfield, Mo., for a game that night against Southwest Missouri State College. Saturday, the Bees play against Northeast Missouri State College at Kirkville.
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Manhattan — (U)P.— Some Kansas State football players probably will find themselves in strange positions when the Wildcats line up against Tulsa's Golden Hurricane at Tulsa Saturday night.
At least three Wildcats were learning new duties yesterday, as Coach Bill Meek made personal switches which sent quarterback Lane Browe, tackle Ron Clair, and fullback Dewey Wade to end positions.
Meek was forced to seek replacements at his end positions when regular Kenny Barr and Jack McShulski were injured during last weekend's game at Nebraska. Barr
By BOB NOLD
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Oklahoma, evidently out to prove that Colorado was lucky, has hammered its last two opponents by identical 49-20 scores.
Buck McPhail, Billy Vessels, or Buddy Leake if by land and Eddie Crowder if by air. Operating behind a powerful line, this modern version of the four horsemen represents the Oklahoma Sooners' success formula.
Oklahoma's forward wall, led by center Tom Catlin, an all-American candidate, mutilated the big Texas line and the Sooner backs enjoyed a field day.
No one thought much of the Sooners' win over Pittsburgh. But when they smashed Texas last Saturday by the same score, more than a few eeyebrows were raised.
McPhail, who last year set national collegiate record of 8.56 yards per rush, ran for 149 yards against the Texans. This is the same McPhail who last year piled up 215 yards rushing in the Kansas game alone.
Vessels ran up 196 yards Saturday and Leake added another 74. Leake is the nation's leading scorer. He has scored five touchdowns and converted 16 times for 46 points.
Crowder also spent an enjoyable afternoon against Texas. He passed for two touchdowns in the first quarter as the Sooners amassed 28 quick points. It took them exactly 10 minutes and 50 seconds to get the game under control.
and McShulski plus tackle Larry Hartshorn, guard Dennis Kane, and center Ed Pence will miss Saturday's contest.
With three of the country's best
However, Meek said that Earl Meyer, tackle, probably would be able to play.
runners in the same backfield with him, Crowder's effectiveness as a passer and as a runner on the keeper play is often overshadowed if not completely forgotten. However, when the situation calls for it, few passers are more deadly.
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