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Undergraduate Activities
Undergraduate Activities Oklahoma Daily, O.U . Student newspaper, and The public opinion. In Princeton he Studied under Dr . Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City . George Gallup of Gallup poll fame, and in New Stephenson Spent Six weeks during June and York he worked in the offices of Elmer Roper, July in Fort Sill, where he attended the first conductor of the Fortune Survey . R.O .T .C . summer camp Staged Since the war. AS AS most outstanding junior man in journalism a field artillery Student he Served aslo as cadet pub- during 1946-'47, Stephenson won the Kayser lic relations officer of the cadet center which was Award. This award, given by Mr . and Mrs . J. W. composed of both Signal corps and artillery stu- Kayser, Chickasha, is an annual award to be used dents . in travel research . It was this award money that paid for Stephenson's east coast research trip . During the first week of camp Stephenson estab- lished a daily camp paper, the Sig-Arty Cadet, which was the first R.O .T.C . Summer camp news- for'Teeners' paper printed in the nation . With a Staff of Six Special Music Course he edited the paper, which was circulated among Music A, a course offered for the first time by students from eight Southwestern universities and the University of Oklahoma correspondence Study colleges attending the camp . The paper was used department, offers State high School students a as a model for newspapers for other R.O .T .C . practical view of the fundamentals of music. camps. The newly-organized course, now available to work high schools through the university department, BRANTLEY CHARLES AS a token of gratitude for his outstanding taught by Frank C. -
Sooner Gridmen Plunge Into Hard Schedule
Coach Tom Stidham, below, has a far- away-look in his eyes as though trying tc figure out a new play good enough to baffle Rice, Texas and Nebraska . On the left is a high spot of the Nebraska game last year when Webber Merrell almost shook loose for a 100-yard run to a touchdown from kickoff Sooner Gridmen Plunge Into Hard Schedule By Harold Keith THE modern Sooner sports fan 1936 Sooner team that could win only will tell you that the University of Okla- three games and finish .500 percent, and homa has had two great football teams- go out and play teams like Nebraska, 1920 and next year. Texas, Missouri, Rice and Tulsa-all of Most alumni know about Bennie Owen's which must be a huge relief to Stidham. great 1920 team that won the Missouri However, Stidham is a believer in open Valley championship with only one tie to football and the Sooners of 1937 should rear its record, a powerful team that had be plenty interesting to watch. just about everything including a slash- Here's the report on the 1937 Oklahoma ing running offensive with "Dutch" Hill team : and Phil White carrying the ball, a great The Sooners this fall will have a much backfield blocker in Roy "Sol" Swateck, greener first team because they've lost six a great punter in the 200-pound White, key players off last year's first team, in- great forward passers in White and Arlo cluding both tackles, a guard, the center, "Skivy" Davis, a sweet place-kicker in a fullback and the right wingback . -
Hail and Farewell HEFFNER
1932 The Sooner Magazine 263 Here we have the new Oklahoma football coaches, John -Bo- Rowland on the left, assistant coach, shaking hands with Lewie Hardage of Vanderbilt, new head coach . Mr Hardage, a bache- lor, has proved thoroughly ac- ceptable to everyone and promises to be a solution to the troubled athletic problem of recent years. Both coaches are Vanderbilt men, Mr Hardage having been assistant Vanderbilt coach for ten years and Mr Rowland coming to Norman from Ouachita college, where he was head coach Hail and Farewell HEFFNER SOONERLAND hails a new shape with one hand ; and making friends who can pull out and swing into the inter- football coach-Lewie Hardage of Van- with estranged alumni with the other. ference or drop back and block for the derbilt university, and his assistant, John The new coach, and his assistant set- passer, indicative of an open style. "Bo" Rowland, the Arkansas rapid-vic- tled right down to work Thursday, April Coach Hardage announces that he will tory coach. 14, and began to do their stuff with forty- use a combination of the style of play em- Weeks of suspense ended April 11 when four Sooner football players who reported ployed by Wade and that used at Vander- the special committee appointed by Ben for spring practice . bilt. "I hope to combine the best features Owen, athletic director, to select a new All thoughts of Vanderbilt and Ark- of both styles of play, shaping up a team coach after the voluntary resignations of ansas, old stomping grounds of the two that can show well on the field without Adrian Lindsey, head coach, and Dewey new Sooner mentors, were left behind, as sacrificing effectiveness," he says. -
Football Ups and Downs
Football Ups and Downs By HAROLD KEITH FOR 47 consecutive years now, the an- essary and beneficial part in promoting man right out on the prairie north of the nual autumnal mania known as football an over-all efficiency by relieving the present Fine Arts Building . Wearing has fevered University of Oklahoma stu- strains of war and work ." home-made uniforms, the University boys dents, faculty, alumni, and thousands of Football made its start at Norman were soundly licked, 0 to 34 . Harts outsiders as well to such a sweltry pitch back in 1895, twelve years before state- twisted a knee and had to retire, and be- of excitement that until the gridiron season hood. Then the country we now know fore it was over, the befuddled Norman ends in late November, all the ice in Ant- as Oklahoma was still in its frontier stage . boys were borrowing the Oklahoma City arctica probably could not cool them back On the west was the brash young Repub- subs so they'd have a full lineup . A to normalacy. lican upstart known as Oklahoma Terri- large crowd watched the fun with mixed Great holiday throngs of gay, smartly- tory whose prairies had been freshly emotions and wondered what devilment attired people sometimes numbering more peopled by a series of runs; on the east, the giddy Norman college boys would than 30,000 now move from all over Okla- struggling with the splendid tragedy of think up next. homa in a single golden October after- its doomed tribal governments was the In 1897 studious, be-spectacled Verne noon to the big red-tiled Sooner stadium much older Indian Territory. -
The Boyd Years
THE BOYD YEARS GOT OFF THE train on the hot afternoon of August sixth . a stretch of prairie on which my helpers and I were to IYou too have experienced August afternoons in Oklahoma . build an institution of culture. Discouraged? Not a bit. It is probable you have experienced them on trains. At The sight was a challenge." any rate, after that trip my spirits were none too high." When the act establishing the University was approved, David Ross Boyd stood by his luggage facing the south- Boyd, a young man and possessor of a doctor's degree from west, overlooking a vast prairie, stretching as far as he Wooster University, a small Ohio college, was superin- could see. Or, as he so aptly put it, "Not a tree or shrub tendent of schools in Arkansas City, Kansas, where he had broke the interminable monotony of that hard-pan desert ." caused quite a stir. Somewhere out there were the forty acres. During his first year in Arkansas City, in 1888, thou- This was Boyd's first trip to Norman, and he wasn't sands of adventurers and land-hungry citizens had as- much impressed. Not a sign of activity, just the weari- sembled on the edge of town, awaiting the opening of the some stillness of a barren landscape. Oklahoma lands to settlement. Those were turbulent days ; "Later I was to find out that this prairie grass wasn't winter was coming, and Boyd saw in the huge crowd of so monotonous as it seemed, for its sameness was broken poor and unemployed people a real problem and even a at quite frequent intervals by buffalo wallows.