Naval Air Station for Coach Jim Tatum . 23 . helped wipe out three Jap gun emplacements . 'Bud' Picks K.U ., but Sooners 6 feet . 210 . played high school football at Stanley West . big fellow, hard to move . Look Strong as Season Begins Gastonia (North Carolina) in 1940-'41-'42-'43 . 20-year-old guard from Enid High School who excellent all-around linesman . a terrific hustler. spent two years in the Navy seeing action in the team to win the 1947 Big Six foot- Kansas is the Homer Paine . all-Big Six Kansas City Star Philippine campaigns . 6-1 . 231 . business ball championship, according to O. U. mentor and INS . from Enid High School . had major. Wilkinson, but other loop coaches and "Bud" freshman. year at Tulsa University in 1942 .. 23 Centers sports writers disagree. They pick the Sooners to . 5-11 . 213 . was in the infantry 34 months John Rapacz . chosen All-American by the wind up on top. and saw fighting in three campaigns . played nation's football scouts for Pic Magazine . unani- Last fall O. U. and Kansas were co-champions, service football with the First Division team in mous All-Big Six center-played in 1945 with the and the personable Wilkinson, who is serving his Germany . made straight B average in School Jacksonville, Florida, NAS ... a sure shot tackler first season as head coach, claims that with Ray of Business last semester . who is very fast for his size . enlisted in Marines Evans once more in the K. U. fold, the Jayhawkers Bill Morris . scored touchdown against Army and fought in Marshalls and Gilbert Islands cam- will be "best in the Big Six in '47." fell on blocked punt to do it . a reserve end paigns . when the Japs bombed tiny island of Behind Kansas, he places Missouri, Nebraska . and tackle in 1941 and 1942 . from Oklahoma Roi, Rapacz had to dig himself a fox hole as big and Oklahoma in a group. City Northeast High School . 6-3 . 208 . as a buffalo wallow . even at 6-3 and 213 pounds "Although Kansas State and Iowa State probab- majoring in accounting . a platoon sergeant who Rapacz is the runt of his family . he has five ly rate below Kansas, in the top strata, and below was with Marines 31 months and fought in the brothers who range from 230 to 280 pounds . Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma in the middle battles of Iowa Jima and Okinawa . returned an sub catcher on Sooner baseball team last year . strata, the margin by which they trail is consider- intercepted pass 27 yards to set up Oklahoma's fifth art major. ably less than last year . Each has a new coach, Sam touchdown in 'Gator Bowl game . Francis at Kansas State and Abe Stuber at Iowa Pete Tillman . a Mangum boy who played State, and new prospects and enthusiasm . Each will Nute Trotter . a Borger (Texas) High School one year at Southwestern of Weatherford then be strong enough to knock over any one of the boy who played some at end for Texas Aggies in strayed away to Marquette . saw action in six other four clubs. 1941 . 23 . 6-2 . 215 . played service campaigns during his 33 months in Air Corps . "Oklahoma has added less new strength than football , at San Diego Marine Base and Jackson- played a little service football in 1942 with the Fort any other club in the conference . In addition we ville NAS . a Marine Corps sergeant . rushed Sill Reception Center squad . 25 . 6 feet . have lost three of our starters from last year, half- Bobby Layne, Texas passer, on the play where 197 . married . business major. back Joe Golding, the nation's top running back Layne, hurried, threw the 99-yard touchdown in- Ray Pearcy . a Pawhuska boy whose single and the Big Six's outstanding back and scoring terception to Oklahoma's Joe Golding . looked year at Oklahoma during wartime was spoiled by second All- champion (who made Look magazine's great in spring practice . fine prospect . Major- an appendectomy . 21 . 6-2 . 237 . 23 American team last season selected by the nation's ing in business . months with the Navy in Japanese, Asiatic and made football writers), Guard Plato Andros (who Earl Hale . a 207-pound Texan who played Pacific campaigns . played at Pawhuska High Tom Harmon's Radio All-American team) and six-man football at Markham, Texas, High School, School 1941-'42-'43 . Right End Warren Guise (who made the Kansas and also played at Schreiner Institute of Kerville, Charles Dowell . from Tulsa Central High Star's All-Big Six team). Also we have lost Texas, before enlisting in service . as an in- City School . voted outstanding player of 1946 Okla- capable reserves in LeeRoy Neher, Golding's fantry sergeant, Hale saw lots of fighting in Europe, two homa All-Star football game at Oklahoma City sub, and Tackle Jake McCallister. Every team in winning a Purple Heart, Silver Star, Bronze Star Taft Stadium . center . 19 . 6-1 . 183 the league except Oklahoma will return last year's and Combat Infantry Medal . 23 years old . arts and sciences major. lineup practically intact and they have all added 6-2 . married . majoring in geology . considerable strength besides. brother of I. B. Hale, former Texas Christian All- Quarterbacks led the nation last year in "I think the games should be much closer, and American . Jack Mitchell . runback . a slash- there's no telling what new trend the conference Bob Bodenhamer . back from Army duty average yards per each punt punts touchdowns race may take . Every team will be good enough after playing first string center for Coach Luster's ing runner . returned to Oklahoma Aggies to beat any other team in the league if the ball Sooners of 1945 . from Waurika . 6-3 . against Iowa State, Texas and up and bounces right, and the championship should be 190 . 20 . sophomore . placekickcd 19 of . lives at Ponca City although he grew Arkansas City, Kansas, just hotly contested all the way." 25 conversions for .760 percentage in 1945 . went to high school at O.U .'s Grid ROSIER FOR 1947 switched to tackle this fall . Sarge Dempsey, across Oklahoma's northern border . 23 . 6 Ends Sooner equipment man, calls him "Guggen- feet . 180 . an infantry lieutenant, Mitchell years in the war, fighting in the cam- Jim Tyree . all-Big Six on INS team . heimcr" . former high school discus-throwing spent three France, Belgium and Northern played at left end for Coach Dewey "Snorter" Lus- champion. paigns of Northern Medal with one cluster and ter's Oklahoma teams of 1941 and 1942 . good Guards Germany . won Air blocker and tackler . 6-2 and 206 . married Paul Burris . chosen All-American guard by Purple Heart. from Oklahoma City Capitol Hill High School football scouts for Pic Magazine . All-Big Six Darrell Royal . sensational punter . throws . as sophomore in 1941 played entire 60 min- Kansas City Star and INS . kicks off . had a well . dangerous kick-runbacker . little fellow utes of Nebraska game . broke his hand in Kan- freshman year at Tulsa University in 1942 where . 5-10 . 160 . 23 . sophomore . as a sas State game, later played with it in a cast . he was sub guard behind Ellis Jones, Tulsa's one- carrier boy for the Hollis, Daily News, he developed graduates in engineering this semester . armed star . then he went to war, spending 34 an uncanny accuracy at hitting front porches . Merle Dinkins . nicknames: "Red" and "Five months with the Army engineers in the Pacific, his running football pass is a copy of this throw Thumbs" . from Blackwell . All Big Six end Rhineland and Central European Theaters . 23 . in 1942 led Hollis High School to an -all- in 1944 . played on Oklahoma's wartime teams . 5-11 . 210 . played end and tackle at victorious season . made all-state team . a of 1943 and 1944 then went to the navy . 6-11/2 Muskogee Central High School . business major . reserve with Third Army Air Force team . mar- . 186 . majoring in engineering . was an Norman McNabb . blocked punt against Army ried . has baby girl . he and Max Fischer ensign in Navy with occupational forces in both that brought Oklahoma's touchdown . also were voted by coaching staff as best team players Atlantic and Pacific . ran 48 yards with a for- blocked punt against Texas Aggies . a former on last year's squad. months ward pass in 'Gator Bowl game last January 1. Norman High School tackle . during 38 Derald Lebow . had to abandon football just Jim Owens . played two years in backfield of war he saw a world of action as a Marine corporal before first game last year because of a growth on and one at end with Oklahoma City Classen High in the Marshalls and Marianas . in 1944 played his ankle . an operation later corrected this . from Navy for Pat Hanley's Fourth Marine Division team . School in 1942-'43-'44 . discharged All-Big Six in 1943 and 1944 when he quarter- . 23 years old . feet 194 business major . 20 . 6-3 . 199 . pre-law sophomore . 6 . backed, bucked and forward-passed Coach Dewey runs own floor polishing business . married. caught two touchdown passes against Oklahoma . "Snorter" Luster's Sooners to Big Six champion- Aggies, one against Texas, and one against North John Ilusak . front-line sub last year . in ships . broke his leg this summer pitching soft- Carolina State in 'Gator Bowl game. 1943 played some at guard as a V-5 at Pennsylvania ball . in 1943 and 1944 Lebow set modern touchdowns U. played high school football at Curwensville, Bobby Goad .