Sooner Sports

Sooner Sports By HAROLD KEITH season, was heavily favored to trim Okla- collected during his three years at Rice, homa, the crippled Sooners astonished the fought down the right sideline 46 yards Midlands by upsetting the golden-jerseyed to a touchdown, deftly decoying the Tiger W L PCT. PTS. OPP. PTS. offensive . his narrow path and faking Oklahoma 4 0 1.000 104 33 Tigers with a far better-balanced tacklers out of then kicked Missouri 3 2 .600 145 68 Sooner hearts sank low when Missouri, and side-stepping . Brumley Iowa State 3 2 .600 102 58 goal and Oklahoma led at the half, 13 to 6. Nebraska 2 2 .500 46 94 operating off her modified T formation, Kansas 2 3 .400 57 54 received the opening kickoff and with a After carrying the battle to Missouri Kansas State 0 5 .000 23 170 magnificient show of power and deception all the way through the third quarter, the Sooners again cashed in on their super- REMAINING GAME came roaring back 60 yards to a touchdown in six plays with Don "Bull" Reece, lative punting when Lebow kicked out Nov. 27 Oklahoma at Nebraska . 235-pound fullback who carried the ball of bounds on the Tiger eight-yard mark. on half the plays, catapulting across the Guard Fulghum then blocked Missouri's DEFEATING BY Missouri 20-13 in a thrill- goal. End Jack Morton missed goal. return punt deep in Tiger territory, Bob ing battle at Columbia November 13 be- Mayfield recovering on the Tiger 20 and fore the Tiger Homecoming crowd on a But the Sooners, playing without Left from there Oklahoma quickly scored in still day, Oklahoma's Sooners, tutored by End Dub Wooten and Left Tackle Lee four plays off their telling pass-and-fake- the first graduate coach ever to handle a Kennon, quickly stiffened and when, at pass sequence, Lebow ripping over on sec- Sooner team, Dewey "Snorter" Luster of the end of the first quarter, Tailback Der- ond down . Brumley's conversion boot Chickasha, captain of Bennie Owen's un- ald Lebow of Oklahoma quick-kicked 64 glanced over the crossbar and the Sooners defeated Sooners of 1920, won the 1943 yards dead on the Tiger five and Reece, led 20 to 6 early in the fourth quarter. Big Six championship . after fielding a lateral, was hit hard and fumbled, Dinkins of Oklahoma recovered Missouri's courageous rally in the The Sooners still had one game to play, game's dying moments when trailing by on the Tiger 26 . Then the Sooners went against Nebraska's young civilian club at 14 points then followed, the Tigers eating Lincoln, Nebraska, November 27, but even over in five plays, Lebow passing to Charley Heard for 22 yards and bucking up the green turf with their explosive if the Sooners lost it, they would still re- running game and driving 37 yards to tain the crown. It is the second Big Six three yards off tackle for the touchdown on fourth down . Bob Brumley missed score. Quarterback Paul Collins squirmed conference football title Oklahoma has across and Morton kicked goal . won in the 16-year life of the new league. goal . Oklahoma slowed the Tiger's voracious Two minutes later occurred the game's OKLAHOMA 20, MISSOURI 13 running game with a 5-4-2 defense that most thrilling play . Lebow hit Brumley was virtually a nine-man line, gambling Although Missouri's all-civilian team, with a pass in the right flat and Brumley, that the mediocre Missouri forward-pass- biggest outfit the Sooners have met this using every wile in the rich repertoire he ing wouldn't elude Heard and Brumley, the Sooner two-man secondary . The Sooners were so crippled from the unprece- dented loss of a dozen players from injuries already this year that eight Oklahomans played the full 60 minutes, two more went 59 minutes and the eleventh man 52 against Missouri . Bill Dellastatious, Mis- souri back, dislocated his elbow in the first quarter and was the hard-fought contest's only casualty . OKLAHOMA 26, KANSAS 13 This was the game in which the small Sooner Homecoming throng froze with apprehension when eight of Oklahoma's eleven starters left the clash because of injuries . The contest was played No- vember 6 at Norman, one week before the crucial Tiger battle . Opening the game with their usual fury, Oklahoma struck twice for touchdowns behind the strong north wind in the first quarter and led 14-0 . Brumley ran them down to the goal and Lebow whip- ped across for the first. Lebow passed to End Omer Burgert for the second. The Sooners made it 19-0 at the half by THEY LED THE WAY TO BIG SIX VICTORY driving 84 yards to a touchdown against Here in repose are the twin pistons of the steamy football attack that this year the powerful wind, all of it on running propelled Oklahoma to a Big Six championship, Tailback Derald Lebow (left), plays by the 167-pound Sooner backfield . Okmulgee sophomore, and Fullback Bob Brumley, former Rice Star. CONTINUED ON PAGE 22) DECEMBER, 1943 15 prepared for circulation in the near fu- The establishment of a Hall of Fame ture, as an aid to the University adminis- was also announced, with Mr. Benedum tration in planning for the future; (8) as chairman of the Hall of Fame project. The Association sponsored the manufac- The statewide meeting of the Associa- ture of an album of phonograph records tion was addressed by John G. Hervey, made from recordings by the O. U. Glee '25law, dean of the Law School, who re- Club, and more than half the albums had ported on the work already done by the been sold before delivery to Norman; (9) state committee on postwar assistance to Chief attention of the Alumni . Office lawyers in service of the Oklahoma Bar staff is still devoted to the fundamental Association. Dean Hervey is chairman responsibilities of publishing Sooner Mag- of the committee. azine every month, and maintaining and improving alumni records, with special attention to records of war participation by alumni. Sooner Sports Executive board members present for the meeting were T. R. Benedum, Nor- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15) man, president of the Association; Elmer off- L. Fraker, Mangum; Hiram Impson, Mc- Brumley put it over with a 40-yard Alester; C. H. Fawks, Oklahoma City ; tackle buck during which he neatly faked Granville Norris, Muskogee ; Merle Woods, Robert George, Kansas safety, out of his path. Brumley also prevented two Kansas El Reno; Fred E. Tarman, Norman ; George from be- George D. Hann, Ardmore, and Harry touchdowns, overhauling Simmons, Stillwater. hind after the latter ran 44 yards and ALBUMS SELL FAST broke into the clear, and earlier inter- Dixie McDaniel, of O. U.'s Choral cepting a Jayhawk pass on the Sooner Visitors Club, and a few of the Glee Club- three. Several Sooners just back from foreign Choral Club record albums left after Coach Henry Shenk's Jayhawkers, ex- posts of duty with the armed forces were those spoken for were shipped. hibiting the same aggressiveness that two among visitors last month in the Alumni weeks later enabled them to score a 7-6 Office. Ernest R. Brown, '22law, Pryor, treasurer. upset victory over Missouri at Lawrence, Among those who signed the register Twenty-four directors, including eleven dominated the last half. George wrote were Mrs..W. J. Armstrong (Minnie Lee judges, were elected as directors of the an exclamation point behind a 57-yard Burrus, '15), Oklahoma City; Mrs. Ray Association for the coming year. They Kansas drive by crossing the goal on an T. Lehman (Margaret McLeod, '43bus), are Justice Alfred P. Murrah, '28law, of off-tackle cut-back, and later forward- Guthrie; Mary Ann Batchelor, '43ed, Dur- the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals; Judge passed to Wingback John Bergin for ant; Anna Kay Swinney, '43ed, Durant. Royce H. Savage, '27law, of the U. S. Dis- another score. Oklahoma counted when Edna Mae Simmons, '42ed, Guthrie; trict Court for the Northern District of the alert Burgert "smelled" a Kansas Patricia Hoops, '43ed, Henryetta ; Gene Oklahoma. screen pass, intercepted the ball and gal- Campbell, '42journ, Oklahoma City; James Justice Earl Welch, '11, Justice Denver loped 39 yards to score. Dugger, '43chem, medical student in the N. Davison, '15law, Justice Thurman S. OKLAHOMA IOWA STATE 7 Navy, Oklahoma City; Robert N. Ross, Hurst, '12law, Justice Wayne Bayless, '20 21, '21pharm, and Mrs. Ross of Oklahoma law, Justice Ben Arnold, '25law, justice In this game, played at Norman Oc- City; Lt. Robert L. Lunsford III, '43ba, Fletcher Riley, '17ba, Justice Monroe Os- tober 30, the most terrific south wind that Fort Sill; Willie Burns, '42ed, Tulsa; born, '04, all of the Supreme Court of has blown at a Norman game since the Janet Werner, '42journ, Kansas City Mis- Oklahoma . Sooner-Washington State contest five souri. Judge Leslie Webb, '20law, of the Dis- years ago swept Owen field, ruining Iowa Mrs. Paul Burns (Anne Railey, '39 trict Court of Tulsa County; Judge State's classy forward pass attack and re- nurse), Noble; Capt. Barth P. (Jiggs) Clarence Mills, '23law, of the District stricting each club's offense to the two Walker, '40geol, '40law, who has just Court of Oklahoma County; Dick Jones, quarters in which each was aided by the returned from North Africa, and Mrs. '27law, presiding judge of the Criminal wild, unruly breeze. Walker (Lucille Brotherton, '40law) ; Lt. Court of Appeals; Dan Mitchell, '23law, As usual, the Sooners struck a one-two Victor Lasater, '42ed, with the Signal Enid; T.

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