1 STATE OF

2 1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

3 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 3 By: Sparks and Nichols of the 4 Senate

5 and

6 Virgin, Martin (Scott) and Stiles of the House 7

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9 AS INTRODUCED

10 A Concurrent Resolution congratulating the football team and Coach Bob 11 Stoops for an outstanding 2010 football season; and directing distribution. 12

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14 WHEREAS, the University of football team, under

15 Coach , won the Big 12 Championship for the seventh time

16 in the last eleven years, and won the 40th Tostitos in a

17 48-20 victory over Connecticut; and

18 WHEREAS, the Sooners won ten or more games per season for an

19 NCAA record thirty-two times and the Sooners became only the seventh

20 program in history to win 800 games; and

21 WHEREAS, the Sooners extended the nation’s longest-active-home

22 winning streak to thirty-six games; and

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1 WHEREAS, the Sooners produced two consensus All-Americans in

2 and to run the school’s all-time total

3 to 152; and

4 WHEREAS, the Sooners produced the Sammy Baugh Award winner in

5 ; and

6 WHEREAS, Quinton Carter won the Wooden Citizenship Cup and is

7 one of the eleven players named to the Coaches

8 Association Good Works Team; and

9 WHEREAS, the Sooners produced an Academic All-American in Brian

10 Lepak.

11 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE 1ST SESSION

12 OF THE 53RD OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

13 CONCURRING THEREIN:

14 THAT the Oklahoma Legislature congratulates the Oklahoma Sooners

15 football team and Coach Bob Stoops upon their outstanding 2010

16 season and recognizes their Championship and their

17 win in the 40th Annual Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.

18 THAT the Oklahoma State Legislature recognizes the talents of

19 the players who make up this winning team.

20 THAT a copy of this resolution be distributed to President David

21 Boren of the University of Oklahoma, Coach Bob Stoops, and members

22 of the University of Oklahoma Sooners football team.

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