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Here we have the new Oklahoma football coaches, John -Bo- Rowland on the left, assistant coach, shaking hands with 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

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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, , 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. "Snorter" Luster, '21 arts-sc., assistant the coaches, quickly acclimated them- The new coach is full of enthusiasm . He coach, came to a decision in naming selves and pooled expert resources into a radiates optimism, and this spirit seems to Hardage as Lindsey's successor. new type of coaching which is designed to be caught up by the boys. And he has a Sorting and eliminating masses of the put the 1933 football season over with a word for alumni : applications received for the athletic jobs bang. "I hope to see many students and alum- was no easy job for the secret committee. It is believed that Mr Hardage will ni out warming up the benches this spring After nights of sleepless deliberation, stress open play from the start. He will and next fall. The boys on the field are as members of the committee can sit back in coach the backfield, while Mr Rowland much their boys as mine. Nothing en- their chairs and twaddle their thumbs, will handle the line. courages us so much as to see alumni and feeling satisfied that they have picked a After the scramble for enough suits was students showing a real, personal interest good man in the "Southerner," who has a finished Thursday, Coach Hardage put in our work. We want support, co-oper- splendid record back of him. Mr Rowland, the boys through catching passes and ation, cheers, and prayers." recommended by Mr Hardage, was se- reaching up for the ball with one hand. Soonerland has every appearance of be- lected April 14. His instructions to the candidates to ing well pleased with Coach Hardage, Mr Hardage began spring scrimmage "learn to handle the ball with one hand" who displays indications of being able to the afternoon after his assistant was named indicates that he will go in for forward handle athletics with the same fire and and is plunging right into the difficult job and lateral passing in a big way. It is strength that resulted in the sensational of whipping the Sooner material into known that he likes medium-sized guards success of the Vanderbilt team during the 264 The Sooner Magazine May ten years Mr Hardage served there as as- sistant coach. While in college, Mr Hardage was put on the 1912 all-American team as half- back by , and placed him in 1911 and 1912. Play- ing two years at Auburn and two at Vanderbilt, Hardage made the all-South- ern conference team four years. Mr Rowland, who has won five Ark- ansas collegiate championships in the last five years, comes here after a year's stay at Ouachita college, Arkadelphia, Ark- ansas. He has coached two years at Hen- derson-Brown college and two at Hender- son state college. He graduated from Vanderbilt in 1925, and is a former pupil of Coach Hardage. Dan McGugin, director of athletics at Vanderbilt, gives Coach Hardage a big sendoff : "From a standpoint of running, Hardage ex- celled any other back I have ever seen and he has the happy faculty of handing his knowledge of how to carry the ball down to his pupils." The ability to teach his backs to "get up and go," has been attributed to Hard- age, and is said to be one reason Vander- bilt has had remarkable success in foot- ball. The names of , coach of the Southern Methodist university Mus- tangs, and , former Ala- bama coach, now head, are linked with Hardage's . said in announcing the The two upper selection of Hardage : photographs, from left to right, are "He and Wade have been running mates for years. For the last few weeks, Hardage has been Dewey -Snorter- Luster, '21 arts- at Duke university coaching Wade's backs and sc., assistant coach, and Adrian they have exchanged ideas for years. When Wade Lindsey, head coach, both of whom left Alabama to go to Duke, Wade recommended have resigned, Below Mr Lindsey's Hardage for the 'I3ama position but McGugin and Vanderbilt were reluctant to let him go. Only photograph is that of Lewie Hard- by convincing McGugin of the excellent oppor- age, new head coach, while the tunities at Oklahoma, would the Vanderbilt direc- lowest photograph is that of John tor agree to release him." -Bo- Rowland, new assistant coach Coach Hardage coached the play of the air force team at Barron Field, Texas, dur- ing the World war and won the south- west championship. During the ten years he has been assistant coach at Vanderbilt, teams of that university have never fin- tions from the state press poured in, and ished lower than fifth in a twenty-one the melee became a minor whirlwind un- team league . He is a bachelor and is forty til Regent Raymond A. Tolbert, '12 arts- years old. sc., '13 law, former president of the Uni- Years of agitation over the athletic sit- versity of Oklahoma Association, asked uation of the university came into the newspapers to co-operate rather than to open this spring and resulted in the resig- dictate, in the appointment of a coach. nation of Mr Lindsey, all Missouri Valley Mr Lindsey in the meantime was being football player of the University of Kan- considered by several universities as foot- sas and former coach of , ball coach. One of these was Denver uni- Lindsborg, Kansas, as football coach of versity. Belatedly, a number of athletes the university . Previously, Mr Luster, cap- came to his defense and when the record tain of the undefeated Sooners of 1920, of Mr Lindsey was examined, it was dis- resigned as assistant coach. covered that he had averaged in the Big Despite these resignations, the situation Six Conference . was not much clearer. They followed the The general confusion increased on the insistent demands of certain state sport day Mr Lindsey dramatically announced writers for a new coach. As soon as Mr his resignation . The men's council pro- Lindsey resigned, certain capital city agi- posed a vote of students on whether Ben tators made it known that they wanted G. Owen, for twenty-six years athletic di- favorite high school coaches appointed . rector of the university, should be retained. An avalanche of applications descended President Bizzell intervened to state that on the athletic association, recommenda- this was not a proper matter for the. stu- HEFFNER The Sooner Magazine May

At first free or very cheap lands seemed and at the same time stock the streams Here's what makes me mad about the Lindsey to offer such an opportunity. Once they and lakes with fish and seek to preserve deal : were gone it was a natural step to transfer the They fired him because he lost ball games. wild life once so abundant, but now And they said they wouldn't . his interest to cheap stocks . Here lie the so fast disappearing . They wouldn't go out and do the subsidization roots of much of our economic distress . The old time West as a region is gone that's necessary to turn out Notre Dame teams. The frontier spirit is a restless spirit. and it has gone forever, but this flaming They told him everything was all right. It We own more automobiles than all the wasn't our policy to subsidize athletes and over- spirit of the West is still with us to give emphasize victories . rest of the world. Moreover we drive shape and color to our national life. For They wouldn't schedule important intersectional them-"and how!" We are a nation on if it is true that : games because it was only good clean fun we wheels . We drive three hours to reach a were playing for. "You may break you may shatter town exactly like any other town and This was a noble policy, but the powers that The vase if you will be didn't have the guts to stick then turn about and drive madly home with it when the But the scent of the rose wolves howled . again. Will cling to it still." Maybe they've decided to abolish our purity It might naturally be supposed that policy. Maybe they're gonna create a few jobs and So it is also true that you may cut down get some Ralph people living in small towns and cities Grahams, Henry Sauers and the forests and plow up the green prairies ; Carnie Smiths down here. of the Middle West with little opportun- you may widen the pioneer's trail to a Ha, ha, that's a good joke . We've got too many ities to hear good music, attend grand scruples to commit any crime broad highway and build towns and cities such as offering opera or to visit great inducements . libraries and art on the site once occupied by his cabin galleries would feel but But they've got funny scruples. It didn't a real hunger for something of the spirit of the West will re- bother them when they turned a man with a such things. It would seem natural then main to lead us on. family out into a depression ridden world with- when vacation time comes many of us out a job. To me this frontier spirit constitutes at would journey to the cultural centers of It's gonna be plenty silly, tho, to keep firing once a danger and a hope . A danger lest the East there to hear or see the work of coaches for not winning games and to keep we attempt to apply frontier principles to turning down 200-pound fullbacks so we can great artists, to study in the great libraries, the solution of problems caused by our brag about our simon pure "sports for sports and to view the rich treasures of sake" museums complex industrial society, and a hope attitude. and art galleries. As a It might make strangers think we've got a matter of fact we that the optimism, energy, and faith that do nothing of the kind . We put a luggage bunch of hypocrites around here. conquered a continent may enable us to carrier on the left running board of the Gal Wood of The Tulsa Tribune writes conquer the foes that endanger our nation family automobile, pile in blankets, army that the resignation of Lindsey should and the modern society in which we live . cots, pots, pans and other camp equip- wipe the slate clean: Perhaps it is the western optimism in- ment and start west. We stay at tourist The resignation of Adrian Lindsey as head herited from many generations of pioneer coach should bring about a tremendous revival in camps by night, or camp beside a stream ancestors which makes me feel that the football interest at the . and cook bacon and coffee over a camp elements of hope found in this spirit of That can be said with all due respect to Ad and fire. We pause at filling in full recognition of the fine record he has es- stations to swap the West far outweigh the elements sagas with other of tablished in five years of coaching at the Norman tourists and lie about the danger . Our problems are far different institution. mileage we get to the gallon and eventu- from those of our frontier forebears but Sorry as we are to see the passing of Lindsey, allly reach Mesa Verde, Yellowstone, the their blood flows in our veins and their we are happy for O. U. Petrified Forest, or merely some remote Ad's action in stepping gracefully from the pic- courage and hardihood still live on in the canyon of the Rocky Mountains . There ture may remove a most unfortunate situation present generation . We have new wine which has existed in the we camp some more, fish, live Oklahoma football de- out of for old bottles and new tasks for old en- partment for the last two years. doors and at last return to tell tall tales thusiasms . Let us trust that the Spirit of In the first place it may bring in new coach- of fish caught, or ing blood that will completely dominate the nearly caught, and of the West will enable us to triumph over the wonderful vacation we have had . Oklahoma football picture . This domination-for difficulties ; that the energy, faith, and reasons not widely known-has been sadly lack- Most of us have seen literally thousands ideals of the pioneer in his log cabin will ing the last two years. And in the second place of these people scattered along the high- carry us safely through the dangers of students and the alumni may revel enough in their victorious effort to oust Lindsey that they ways or resting in the tourist camps that our modern industrial life. so plentifully sprinkle the Great West. will give a new coach and his teams the moral support and school backing to which they are Men in checked golf knickers, and hose of entitled. variegated hues, and corpulent women in Complete domination of the football depart- ment by the head coach, departmental harmony khaki breeches with silk stockings, high HAIL AND FAREWELLI heeled slippers and boudoir caps. "There and the moral support of the entire school and CONTINUED FROM PAGE 265) its alumni is absolutely necessary if the grid ought to be a law" we think sometimes game is to be played on the championship stand- and still summer after summer their num- Sooners to accomplish the nearly impossible and ard demanded at O. U. ber grows. win all games blamed young Prof. Lindsey. If all of this is accomplished, Lindsey, by Ever since the team returned triumphant from stepping out, will have done more for the school It is the blood of Daniel Boone flowing a successful though foolish junket to Hawaii the at Norman than he possibly could have done in in our veins, the spirit of Kit Carson and wolves have sounded their merciless and bigoted two or three years of football coaching. For some of all that multitude of pioneer ancestors chorus, which must have been sweet music to reason or other Ad wasn't popular with the stu- which sends us out in search of great open one Alfalfa Will Murray, who has let an indif- dents and certain friction in the coaching staff ferent world know that he doesn't go much for made him lose strength with players on his foot- spaces each summer by tens of thousands . "those football matches." ball squad and members of the "O" club . School No longer are there new lands to occupy, Gallant old Benny Owen fought for his youth- spirit was at its lowest ebb last fall, and as Lind- we travel west for the sheer love of travel- ful coach, but in vain . The wolf pack continued sey's eleven failed to win a championship the nat- ing. to yowl . Like Burton Ingwersen at Iowa, Ad ural reaction was the student-alumni campaign Lindsey could stand it no longer . He quit . to "get Lindsey ." And they "got" him. In a hundred other ways does this west- And where will Oklahoma get a coach so Follows a complimentary sendoff from ern spirit show itself. The enthusiasm with honest, so sportsmanlike and so capable-for the which we took up the work of the boy money that Oklahoma has paid? C. E. McBride of The Kansas City Star : scouts and camp fire girls ; the popularity Next thing we'll be hearing that Oklahoma Oklahoma hardly will be able to obtain a bet- of summer camps, our alumni have turned on Benny Owen himself, ter football coach than Ad Lindsey, who recently eagerness to hunt, the living symbol of all that is worthwhile and resigned the chair of Pigskinology at Norman . and fish and picnic, are all manifestations good and progressive in Sooner athletics . Oklahoma may obtain a coach who will fit of this same spirit . The federal and state Raymond Parr, city editor of The Okla- into the scheme of things at Oklahoma better governments recognize the craving of our homa Daily, in his column, sometimes than did Lindsey, but in the knowledge of foot- ball and the business of teaching it chances are people for out of doors and provide forest humorous, sometimes pertinent, comment- the new coach, whoever he may be, will have reserves, game refuges and national parks ed: nothing on Ad Lindsey . 1934 The Sooner Magazine 483

I know little about conditions at Oklahoma. he felt it was best for all concerned . He walked A change in policies, some of which have been I do not know that Lindsey did not dovetail with much the same plank as Burton Ingwersen did obsolete for years, is just as much to be desired the conditions he had to meet. Maybe he did. at Iowa . as a change in coaching faces. But I do know that Ad Lindsey is a corking Lindsey indicated months ago in a letter to a Walter M. Harrison, in good coach of football. Coaches who have met Nebraska sports follower that the Oklahoma Lindsey's team in his Big Six coaching period wolves were drawing closer, their eyes redder . Times approved the action of President know the value of Lindsey as a coach. Evidently the decision to resign was the last re- Bizzell in squelching the somewhat humor- In the time Ad Lindsey was at Oklahoma the sort as the Sooner administrative heads had an- ous move made by students who wished football material there never startled the Big Six nounced their intention of standing behind Lind- to vote on the retainment of Owen . The scouts. Nevertheless the Lindsey regime has been sey to the last ditch when this same situation a winning one . He leaves an excellent record at arose last season. squib follows: Oklahoma . And some school will be getting a The pressure must have become too great de- You may have noticed that Doctor Bizzell is first class coach. spite a fine finish which the Sooners achieved in not going to let the students at the state univer- post season games and Lindsey, with most schools sity express their preference by vote regarding Cy Sherman, sports writer, The Lin- of the Big Six engaged in spring practice, an- the maintenance of Bennie Owen at the head of coln Star, reiterated his confidence in Mr nounces that he's stepping down and out of the the athletic council . It is none of the students' Lindsey : Okahoma picture . business . They only attend college there. They are The order of Hard Losers has claimed an- Adios Ad, and good luck! merely being prepared for business careers. They, other victiml Adrian Lindsey, head coach of foot- Another great guy sacrificed on the altar of of course, at the age of 21 or 22 have not the "You Gotta Win!" qualifications to make up their minds and ex- ball at the University of Oklahoma the past sev- press a judgment eral years, has tendered his resignation. Nebraska U. officials who talked recently with . Realizing that his critics, in their determina- Ben Owen, Oklahoma athletic director, and the Of course the decision is not made because the tion to force him out, were making matters un- man who has served the Sooners for many sea- authorities fear that the vote of the students pleasant for the university administration, Coach sons, believe he will also step down . He de- would be heavily against the retention of Owen . clared recently that there "must be some happi- Not at all . But that is the way it will be con- Lindsey solved the problem by stepping aside. strued . Some let Statistics, compiled recently at Norman, dis- ness in a man's job," indicating that there had modern universities students ex- closed that been little sunshine for him of late. press their opinions freely and act upon the judg- Lindsey's Sooner teams ranked sec- ment expressed after careful consideration . How- ond in four years of Big Six conference compe- Bus Ham, tition in planting games in the victory column. in his column of sports for ever, I may be mistaken about this being a mod- With the single exception of Nebraska, the Nor- Daily Oklahoman advises the university ern custom . man institution was the only conference school athletic council to change policies as well Newspaper writers certainly watched able to show a .500 percentage. as coaching faces : with avid interest for the least hints from Responsibility for the campaign against Lind- the special committee appointed by the sey, admittedly a high type man and capable To simply hire a new head football coach at coach, belongs in the main on the shoulders of O. U. would be a simple matter . The woods are athletic council to select a new coach, unreasoning alumni, but part of it, I suggest, full of candidates . which procedure was negotiated with the may be traced to the door of Oklahoma's depart- But to select a man acceptable to all may prove difficult . utmost secrecy . The following excerpts ment of ballyhoo. may throw some light upon who's who The Sooners of 1931 won their opening game There are several factions participating in this with Rice Institute, after which the Lindsey team situation, and each has its own pet idea about with the sports writers . Mr Bridgewater, was over-touted by Norman publicity agents as hiring a successor to Ad Lindsey. One may pre- in The Tulsa World: a sure shot bidder for the Bix Six championship . fer some coach from right here in Oklahoma while another group insists on an out-of-state Supporters of Vergil Jones, the "little giant" of As a matter of fact, the Oklahoma squad lacked state high football, who has been mentioned for the physical material, also the numbers, to to man. go On top of that, limited time and the salary the head football job at Oklahoma university, the pace, yet Lindsey, the coach, is the one who might help the Jones boom along by writing let- pays the school can afford to pay may become ob- the price. stacles to clear in the search for the "right" ters to the O. U. athletic council and to Athletic It seems that some of the student laddies at man . Director Benny Owen . The regents and the coun- the University of Oklahoma have been caught Consider the salary angle. Lindsey made only a little more than $4,000 cil don't want suggestions or interference from firing at half-cock. Taking their cue from cer- the newspaper, but have said they'd welcome let- tain alumni who made matters so for a year. unpleasant Supposing the Sooners were to approach Mike ters from Sooner fans and followers . Football Coach Ad Lindsey that he handed in Oklahoma is right solidly behind Jones, but his resignation last week-, the afore-mentioned Ghetto, assistant at the , or "Moon" Mullins, former Kansas backfield mentor, that probably won't do the little strategist a students conceived a brilliant' idea, to-wit: great deal of good at Norman, where the feeling Why not throw the hooks into Ben Owen, now under contract with St. Benedict's college of Atchison, Kan . for the capital is not exactly friendly. However, Oklahoma's veteran director of athletics? if the council sees that other parts of the state Their scheme took definite These men, and others worthy of consideration, shape when a pe- now are making approximately as much as Lind- also are backing Jones it may cause more serious tition was drafted for presentation to the univer- consideration of his application . sity president, Dr Bizzell, urging that the reten- sey did at O. U. Of course, the opportunity to do something on Reports from Oklahoma City are that more tion or dismissal of Owen be submitted to a ref- than half a hundred applications have been placed erendum confined to the study body . his own hook in one of the major conferences of the country might appeal strongly to a man like on file at Norman, but the identity of the job But the university prexy proved to be a most seekers is not given out by the athletic council. impossible person-from Ghetto or Mullins or any one of a half dozen the student standpoint others who might be named here . Glenn Thistlethwaite, formerly of the Big Ten -as he came right back with the pronuncia- But it must admitted that schools, Wisconsin and Northwestern, is said to mento that the detail of hiring or firing depart- be when we get be one of those whose name is on file. Thistle- ment heads solely was up to the university ad- right down to dollars and cents Oklahoma doesn't have much to offer. thwaite is a disciple of "Pop" Warner, the Stan- ministration, meaning himself and the board of ford veteran . regents. So there will As to the time element, the man selected must be no referendum in the be able to sever his present connections at once The policy of keeping the identity of applicants Owen matter and Director Ben presumably will secret is scored in the Daily Oklahoman. Bus continue and report to Norman in time to conduct spring to preside over and supervise Sooner football practice. Ham, D. O. sports editor, suggests : athletics. "We cannot see why the names of men seeking The crossfire aimed at Director Many a coach, in consideration of his present Owen has school's future, could not afford to pick up and the O. U. position should be kept secret . served to take the Lindsey affair out of the spot- "Supposing someone is a little embarrassed by light, but the rumor walk out at this hour. has oozed out of Norman Here's something else to think about as a new having his name mentioned as an applicant. If he that President Bizzell is seriously considering a really wants the job he should not mind that. It refusal to accept Coach Lindsey's resignation . head man is sought- What co-operation and privileges will Lind- might even help his candidacy. Given a vote of confidence from the executive "Furthermore, we think the public is entitled head of the institution and a break in the luck sey's successor have that Ad did not enjoy? A revival of school spirit, which amounts to in- to know what men are available . Not that the in the form of improved material, Lindsey's general public will have any voice in the selection friends would terest in the football team in numbers and vocal incline to predict that Sooner fol- volume, must be brought about. The Jazz Hounds of Ad Lindsey's successor, but the Sooner patrons lowers would not have just cause to complain like to know what is going on." of the showing of their football teams in Big and Ruf Neks, functioning as they did originally, Six competition. might accomplish this . Gal Wood gives a pretty good sum-up The new coach should have more of a voice in of names that have been mentioned, and John Bentley, Lincoln Nebraska journal the schedule-making . He knows his squad better he does not fail to present the good name sports columnist, has another good word than anyone else, how to juggle his games to of Grady Skillern of Tulsa high school : for Mr Lindsey, and makes a prophecy as increase his chances of winning consistently . Of course, whoever is selected should be al- Do you suppose that it is about time for Okla- well: lowed to name his assistants . homa A. & M. to set up a jealous watch around Adrian Lindsey, bland coach of the Oklahoma And there are a number of less important items its Lynn Waldorf? Could Tulsa University borrow Sooners, announced his decision to resign because which should be weighed carefully. Bill Murray's militia to guard its "Gloomy Gus" 484 The Sooner Magazine May

Henderson? Perhaps Oklahoma City had better was when the Kansas conference was a the only thing he has to send back for call out the fire department to protect its Vivian formidable sixteen-school league and had- will be his hunting dogs. Ostensibly, Green. he A lot of Oklahoma university's difficulty has n't been split up. is a bachelor, just turning the corner of been inability to attract football material of out- Mr Lindsey's first game as coach of a forty years, not looking it a bit. But with standing talent and ability. Tulsa, Oklahoma City Sooner team was against the University leap year, 2,500 co-eds, the fact there are and Oklahoma A. & M. always seem to get the only pick of high school and junior college stars over of at Chicago in 1927, Oklahoma fourteen unappropriated bachelors Norman . That, to some extent at least, is due to pulling the game out of the fire by scor- upon the university payroll against twenty- the players' belief that Henderson, Green and ing two touchdowns in the last five min- nine young women instructors (recent sur- Waldorf are the best coaches in the state. utes and winning, 13 to 7. During his four vey), it looks as though the coach will If O. U. is to get anywhere, even after its ath- seasons of Big Six conference coaching Mr have opportunity for diversion when letic department has been straightened out, it foot- must offer something in the way of a coach Lindsey has ranked second among the ball work is over. Ad Lindsey was a whose ability and reputation will be such as to coaches of his loop as the following table charming young bachelor when he first command the confidence and respect of these will show: came to the university but he is now head outstanding football players even as Henderson, W L T PCT. of a family of three. Green and Waldorf have commanded the con- 1. Nebraska (Berg, Bible) 15 2 3 .880 fidence and respect of these boys over O. U. in 2. Oklahoma (Lindsey) 9 9 2 .500 The new coach and his assistant, Coach the past. 3. Missouri (Henry) 8 9 3 .474 Rowland made their initial bow to the That being the case and in view of Owen's 4. Kansas State (McMillin) 9 11 0 .450 student body at the Ruf Nek-Jazz Hound statement, why should it be a capital offense if 5 . Kansas (Hargiss) 8 10 1 .444 dance, April 15, given in their honor. O'Goofty sees fit to suggest that Oklahoma might 6. Iowa State (Workman, Honoring the newly elected mentor, be interested in Henderson, Waldorf or Green? Veenker) 5 13 1 .276 a At least they cannot shoot him on sight for men- football banquet was given in the Union tioning it. Oklahoma teams coached by Mr Lind- April 13. All football lettermen, all candi- Glancing over the list of coaches who already sey have given mighty Nebraska its tough- dates for the varsity squad, members of have been suggested for the Oklahoma job and est football jolts in the Big Six. During the athletic council and newspaper sports who are said to have applications on file at Nor- their four years of Big Six competition man, although this cannot be proven because of writers, were invited guests. the secrecy which has cloaked the coaching sit- the Cornhuskers have lost but two games uation ever since Lindsey handed in his resig- and been tied three times. Kansas State For those Sooners interested in the all- nation, you find Hal Gebert, second year coach inflicted one loss by a 10-to-9 score in 1929, time football record of the university and at Wichita, Kan., university and a disciple of the Missouri earned two tied, while Lindsey's Notre Dame system ; Dewey (Snorter) Luster, ex- of the coaches of those teams, The Sooner Sooner line coach and Oklahoma graduate ; Sooners played the Huskers to a 13-13 Magazine publishes the following list. The Virgil Jones; Wes Fry, Oklahoma City Classen draw at Lincoln in 1929 and defeated name of the coach is set in Kabel black coach and former Big Ten star player at Iowa; them 20 to 7 at Norman in 1930, the "Lone Star" Dietz, Haskell Indian coach and for- face letters, and his record follows. The worst licking Nebraska had suffered in record is as complete as it is possible to merly of Carlisle, and Glen Thistlethwaite, ex- its own conference for two decades Wisconsin mentor . There are many, many more . make it. candidates O. U. authorities give you to under- Lindsey's Sooner teams have also fared stand, but try and find out who they are. well against other conference schools. He John W. Harts, 1895 One would think that Luster, Jones, Fry or won three games to Kansas' two, three to 1895 Thistlethwaite would get the call over Gebert if Sooners 0, Oklahoma City ______34 any of those four were available. But Saturday Kansas State's two, broke even with Iowa 1896 Owen mentioned the Kansan as "a leading candi- State. Only Missouri with three victories Sooners 12, Norman H. S. ______0 date for the position." and a tie in five starts, can claim com- Sooners 16, Norman H. S. ______4 On the subjects of coaches, this is as good a plete ascendency over him. time as any to take a squint at the record one Since Mr Lindsey has been head Vernon L . Parrington, 1897-1900 Grady Skillern, athletic director and head basket- coach 1897 ball tutor at Tulsa Central high school, has plas- his Oklahoma teams have played terrific- Sooners 16, Oklahoma City ______0 tered all over Oklahoma . In six years of high ally hard schedules with no "breathers" Sooners 17, Kingfisher ------8 school basketball coaching Skillern's teams have sandwiched in among the important 1898 won 128 out of 148 games, winning three state games. Last year he was forced to send Sooners 5, Arkansas City ------0 championships and finishing as runner-up in the Sooners 24, Ft . Worth Christian ------0 national tournament at Chicago in 1925 . Not a sophomore team on consecutive road 1899 bad you say? Very good we exclaim. trips against Nebraska, Texas and Kan- Sooners 39, Kingfisher ------6 sas State and played a total of twelve Sooners 11, University of Arkansas ------5 Without submitting to the usual tend- games, all against strong foes. Also, with Sooners 11, Arkansas City ______17 ency of an effusively sentimental public 1900 the University of Oklahoma pledged not Sooners 2, Texas ______28 to pat a resigned football coach on the to make an extensive drive for high Sooners 27, Chillocco ------0 back and say "Yes, he was a fine fellow," school athletes, Mr Lindsey has had to Sooners 79, Ft. Reno ------0 it can be authoritatively recorded here Sooners 5, Kingfisher ------0 watch the cream of this talent flock to Sooners 10, Arkansas City that Mr Lindsey was a square-shooter, a other state institutions whose conferences ------0 successful coach and an extremely well- do not have as strict legislation against Fred Roberts, 1901 liked fellow. 1901 proselytism as does the Big Six. Sooners 6, Texas ______12 When Mr Lindsey came to Oklahoma Although this factor was discounted by Sooners 17, Baylor ------0 in the fall of 1927 he was one of the persons and cliques seeking his ouster, Sooners 42, Fairmount ------0 finest young coaching prospects in the Oklahoma teams coached by Mr Lindsey Sooners 28, Kingfisher ------6 midwest. As freshmen coach and head fought cleanly and gamely and were Sooners 0, Texas ______11 scout at Kansas in 1919, 1920 and 1921 he coached to take their defeats with fine Mark McMahan, 1904 and 1903 gave splendid satisfaction and coached 1902 decorum and sportsmanship, all of which Sooners 62, Guthrie ______0 the Jayhawk team that won Mis- should give the resigned Sooner coach a Sooners 6, Texas ______22 souri Valley championships in 1920 and great deal of personal satisfaction when Sooners 6, Dallas ______11 1921 . While coach of Bethany college he takes permanent leave of the Okla- Sooners 28, Arkansas City ------0 teams at Lindsborg, Kansas from 1922 to homa campus next July. His attitude Sooners 30, Oklahoma City ______0 Sooners 15, Kingfisher ------0 1927 his Swede aggregations won twenty- throughout the controversy proved Mr Sooners 5, Missouri ______22 four, lost twelve and tied two Kansas con- Lindsey a gentleman to the core. Sooners 6, Emporia ------5 ference games, tying for second in 1924, Coach Hardage has been smiling his Sooners 17, Kingfisher ______0 winning every game in 1925 to tie the crinkly-eyed smile nearly all the time 1903 Sooners 11, Fairmount ------5 College of Emporia for the championship since he arrived in Norman, cowhide Sooners 6, Emporia ------6 and tying for second in 1926 with only bags, sports paraphernalia and southern Sooners 5, Kansas ______17 ten points scored against them. And that drawl . He became a Sooner that day. And Sooners 5, Texas ______11

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Sooners 0, Arkansas City ______12 1912 1921 Sooners 12, Rolla Miners ------0 Sooners 40, Kingfisher ------0 Sooners 35, Boomers ------0 Sooners 10, Bethany ______12 Sooners 87, Edmond ------0 Sooners 21, Central ______0 Sooners 27, Lawton ______5 Sooners 21, Dallas ------6 Sooners 6, Oklahoma Aggies ______0 Sooners 38, Chillocco ------5 Sooners 0, Missouri ______14 Sooners 28, Washington ______13 Sooner, 0, Kingfisher ------0 Sooners 6, Kansas ______5 Sooners 0, Nebraska ______44 Sooners 6, Texas ------6 Sooners 6, Texas ------7 Sooners 24, Kansas ______7 Sooners 6, Texas Aggies ------0 1913 Sooners 14, Missouri ______24 Sooners 77, Kingfisher ------0 Sooners 7, Kansas Aggies ______14 Dr , 1904 Sooners 83, Edmond ------_____ 0 Sooners 27, Rice ______0 1904 Sooners102, Northwestern ------0 1922 Sooners 0, Kingfisher ------0 0 Sooners 17, Missouri ______20 Sooners 7, Boomers ------0 Sooners 33, Pauls Valley ------Sooners 21, Kansas ------7 Sooners 19, Central ______0 Sooners 0, Kansas ______16 ______14 Sooners Sooners 6, Lawton ______0 Sooners 6, Texas 7, Kansas Aggies ______7 Sooners 10, Texas ______40 Sooners 7, Oklahoma Aggies ------0 Sooners 7, Nebraska ______39 Sooners 9, Bethany ______36 Sooners 14, Colorado ------3 Sooners 3, Kansas ______19 Sooners 75, Oklahoma Aggies ------0 19 14 Sooners 18, Missouri ______14 Sooners 67, Central ______0 Sooners 7, Texas ______39 Bennie Owen, 1905-1927 Sooners 67, Kingfisher ------0 Sooners 0, Washington ------0 1905 Sooners 96, East Central ------6 1923 Sooners 28, Edmond ------0 Sooners 13, Missouri ------0 Sooners 0, Nebraska ______24 Sooners 18, Haskell ______12 Sooners 7, Texas ______32 Sooners 62, Washington ------7 Sooners 0, Kansas ______34 Sooners 16., Kansas ______16 Sooners 12, Oklahoma Aggies ______0 Sooners 33, K. C. Medics ------0 Sooners 28, Oklahoma Aggies ------6 Sooners 3, Kansas ------7 Sooners 6, Washburn ------9 Sooners 52, Kansas Aggies ______10 Sooners 13, Missouri ------0 Sooners 2, Texas ------0 Sooners 35, Arkansas ------7 Sooners 14, Texas ______26 Sooners 55, Kingfisher ------0 Sooners 33, Haskell ______12 Sooners 20, Kansas ______21 Sooners 58, Edmond ______0 Sooners 26, Henry Kendall ______7 Sooners 20, Drake ______26 Sooners 29, Bethany ______0 1915 1924 Sooners 67, Kingfisher ------0 Sooners 0, Central ______1906 Sooners102, Northwestern ------0 2 Sooners 12, Central ______0 Sooners 14, Nebraska ------7 Sooners 24, Missouri ------0 Sooners 0, Oklahoma Aggies ______2 Sooners 11, Kingfisher ------6 Sooners 14, Texas ______13 Sooners 23, Oklahoma Aggies ______0 Sooners 0, Oklahoma Aggies ------6 Sooners 23, Kansas ______14 Sooners 0, Missouri ______10 Sooners 4, Kansas ______20 Sooners 14, Kendall College ______13 Sooners 9, Texas ______10 Sooners 0, Kansas ______20 Sooners 23Ak0, ransas ------Sooners 6, Sooners 17, Central ______0 Sooners 21, Kansas Aggies ______7 Washington ------0 Sooners 48, Sulphur ______0 Sooners 26, Oklahoma Aggies ______7 Sooners 7, Kansas Aggies ______7 Sooners 0, Washburn ------0 1925 Sooners 0, Pawhuska ------0 1916 Sooners 23, Central ______0 Sooners 21, Boomers ______10 1907 07, Shawnee Catholics ------0 Sooners 7, Drake ------0 Sooners 32, Kingfisher ------0 40, Southwestern ------0 Sooners 9, Texas ------0 Sooner 43, Chillocco ------0 0, Henry Kendall ______16 Sooners 0, Nebraska ------12 Sooners 0, Kansas ______15 7, Texas ------21 Sooners 0, Kansas ------0 Sooners 29, Epworth ------0 Sooners114, MissouriSooners______23Sooners Sooners Sooners 14, Missouri ______15 Sooners 67, Oklahoma A. & M. ------0 13, Kansas ______24 Sooners 28, Washington ------0 Sooners 0, Texas A. & M. ______0 Sooners 96, Kingfisher ------0 Sooners 35, Oklahoma Aggies ------0 Sooners 0, Texas A. & M. ______19 Sooners 13, Kansas Aggies ______14 1926 Sooners 10, Texas ______29 Sooners 14, Arkansas ______13 Sooners 19Arkansas, ------6 Sooners 0, Washburn ______29 Sooners 41, Oklahoma Aggies ------7 Sooners 11, Drake ------0 1908 1917 Sooners 12, Kansas Aggies ______15 Sooners 51, Edmond ------5 Sooners 99, Central ______0 Sooners 9, Kansas ______10 Sooners 18, Oklahoma Aggies ------0 Sooners179, Kingfisher ------0 Sooners 10, Missouri ------7 Sooners 51, Kingfisher ------0 Sooners 52, Phillips ______9 Sooners 21, Washington ------0 Sooners 0, Kansas ______11 Sooners 0, Illinois ______44 Sooners 47, St. Louis ------0 Sooners 33, Kansas Aggies ______4 Sooners 14, Texas ------0 Sooners 14, Oklahoma Aggies ______14 Sooners 27, Arkansas ------5 Sooners 14, Missouri ------7 Sooners 24, Epworth ------0 Sooners 0, Arkansas ------0 Adrian Lindsey, 1927-1932 Sooners 50, Texas ------0 Sooners 6, Kansas ______13 1927 Sooners 12, Fairmount ------4 Sooners 0, Kendall ------0 Sooners 13, Chicago ______7 Sooners 6, Washburn ------6 8Sooners 0, Oklahoma Aggies ______9 Sooners 27, Boomers ------7 1909 1918 Sooners 13, Creighton ______13 Sooners 55, Central ______3 Sooners 4, Central ______0 Sooners 14, Kansas Aggies ______20 Sooners 46, Kingfisher ------5 31Sooners4Sooners 8, Post Field Ft. Sill ______0 Sooners 14, Central ______14 Sooners 0, Kansas ______11 5Sooners 3, Kansas ------0 Sooners 28, Washington ------7 Sooners 23, Alva ______2 3, Arkansas ______0 Sooners 26, Kansas ______7 Sooners 5, Arkansas ______21 4, Phillips Um. ------7 Sooners 7, Oklahoma Aggies ______13 Sooners 42, Washburn ------8 7, Oklahoma Aggies ______0 Sooners 7, Missouri ______20 Sooners 11, St. Louis Uni. ______5 1919 1928 Sooners 8, Texas A. & M. ______14 Sooners4 0, Central ______0 Sooners 7, Indiana ______10 Sooners 0, Texas ______30 Sooners157, Kingfisher ______0 Sooners 34, Boomers ------0 Sooners 12, Epworth ______11 Sooners 0, Kendall ______27 Sooners 7, Creighton ------0 1910 Sooners 12, Texas ------7 Sooners 33, Kansas State ______21 Sooners 66, Kingfisher ------0 Sooners 7, Nebraska ------7 Sooners 0, Iowa State ______13 Sooners 79, Edmond ------0 Sooners 6, Missouri ------6 Sooners 6, Nebraska ______44 Sooners 12, Oklahoma Aggies ______0 Sooners 0, Kansas ______0 Sooners 7, Kansas ______0 Sooners 0, Missouri ______26 Sooners 6, Arkansas ------7 Sooners 46, Oklahoma Aggies ______0 Sooners 0, Kansas ______2 Sooners 14, Kansas Aggies ______3 Sooners 14, Missouri ------0 Sooners 3, Texas ------0 Sooners 33, Oklahoma Aggies ______6 1929 1911 1920 Sooners 42, Boomers ______7 Sooners104, Kingfisher ------0 Sooners 16, Central ______7 Sooners 26, Creighton ------0 Sooners 62, Okla . Christian Uni. ------0 Sooners 35, Boomers ------7 Sooners 0, Texas ______21 Sooners 22, Oklahoma Aggies ______0 Sooners 24, Washington ______14 Sooners 14, Kansas State ______13 Sooners 34, Alva ------6 Sooners 28, Missouri ------7 Sooners 21, Iowa State ------7 Sooners 37, Washburn ------0 Sooners 21, Kansas ------9 Sooners 0, Kansas ------7 Sooners 6, Texas ------3 Sooners 36, Oklahoma Aggies ------0 Sooners 13, Nebraska ______13 Sooners 14, Missouri ------6 Sooners 7, Kansas Aggies ______7 Sooners 7, Oklahoma Aggies ------7 Sooners 3, Kansas ------0 Sooners 44, Drake ------7 Sooners 0, Missouri ______13

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1930 Norman, Balfour Sooners 47, New Mexico ------0 Whitney, Miami, Mar- the approach of summer days druggists Sooners 20, Nebraska ------7 ian Wooldridge, Okla. are anticipating a heavy increase in sale of Sooners 7, Texas ------17 soft drinks, since three university grad- Sooners 7, Kansas State ------0 uates in pharmacy of last semester Sooners 9, Iowa State ______13 Debate victory have secured jobs. Each received a position as Sooners 0, Kansas ______13 Upholding Sooners 0, Oklahoma Aggies ------7 the affirmative side of the pharmacist immediately upon passing the Sooners 0, Missouri ------0 question, "Resolved : That congress should examinations given by the state board of 1931 enact legislation providing for the govern- pharmacy. They are Virgil Ridgeway of Sooners 19, Rice ______6 ment control of industry," the Sooner de- Sooners 0, Nebraska ______13 jet, who has a position at Poteau; Willis Sooners 0, Texas ------3 bating team composed of Charles Chris- Brintle, Norman, who went to Marlow ; Sooners 0, Kansas Aggies ______14 tensen, Lawton, and Max Cunnyngham, and Otis Lee, Delhi, who secured a posi- Sooners 12, Iowa State ______13 Oklahoma City, defeated the team from tion in Oklahoma City. Sooners 10, Kansas ______0 Colorado college, Colorado Springs, March Sooners 0, Missouri ------7 Sooners 0, Oklahoma Aggies ______0 19. Sooners 0, Oklahoma City Univ. ______6 *Sooner* editor, manager Sooners 20, Tulsa Uni. ______7 Sooners 20, Honolulu ------39 Students in race Jack High, '34 arts-sc., Oklahoma City, Sooners 7, Uni. of Hawaii ______0 Two lawyers are making plans not to and Earl Sneed, '34 arts-sc., Tulsa, (son of starve when they leave school in June. No Earl Sneed 'l3) have been selected editor bright shining shingles for them, if they and business manager, respectively, of the 1933 Sooner, can help it. They have thrown their hats it has been announced by the GRADUATES IN EMBRYO in the solon race. Herben Palmer, grad- publication board. Work on next year's annual will commence during the last CONTINUED FROM PAGE 259) uate student from El Reno, and at pres- ent a member of the legislature will be in weeks in May. system every Sunday afternoon. At pres- the Canadian county race for the state Poling every state ent, Doctor is touring legislature . Kenneth Reed, junior lawyer Eyes that listen capital in the United States. He flies to from Heavener will seek the democratic New York City to conduct his radio hour nomination in LeFlore county. Reed is so Many students who have a difficult time every Sunday afternoon. set on winning his race that he spent his hearing what the professors say, could Easter vacation opening his campaign in well admire the habits of Mary Elizabeth LeFlore county. Scott, Norman, freshman, who is obtain- Phi Beta Kappa ing her college education by reading lips. Phi Beta Kappa elected for membership Deprived of her hearing as a result of this spring six juniors, twenty four seniors Women scholars scarlet fever at the age of three and a and five alumni. The alumni named are: Alpha Lambda Delta, national honor- half years, Miss Scott soon learned lip James E. Belcher, B. A. '22, assistant ary fraternity for women has announced reading, maintaining a good scholastic professor of chemistry in the university. pledging of the following students: Er- average in high school. She is preparing George B. Parker, B. A. '07, New York nestine Cortazar, Norman; Eloise Longtin to be a librarian, preferably in a law li- City, editor-in-chief of Scripps-Howard and Anne Stinnett, both of Oklahoma brary. newspapers. City; straight-A students. e Ralph Records, B. A. '22, assistant pro- Suzanne Arnot, Delia Franklin, Mary fessor of history in the university. Tappan, Bessie Kniseley, Nona Boyett, SPORTS OF ALL SORTS Mrs May Frank Rhoads, B. A. '22, in- Betty Schmidt and Maude Bly, all of Nor- Athletic finances structor in journalism in the university man; Rhea Byers, Lois Nicholson, Mary Erstwhile telegrams bearing the cheery and literary editor of the Oklahoman. Frances Blalack, Dorian Mathews and Guy Horace Taylor, little greetings that Stadium-Union fees B. A. '22, assistant Mildred Futoransky, all of Oklahoma City. are due may cause a moment's worry to professor of economics in Columbia uni- Dorothy Woodruff, Perry; Betty Adams recipients, versity. and Winifred but the necessity that provoked Ketchum, Tulsa; Thelma sending them is a real one to the athletic The juniors, in order of scholastic rank, Sherry, Holdenville ; Anna Belle Fries, are as follows: association . Ben G. Owen, director of Bristow; Katheryn Crews, Mounds; Opal athletics, is in arrears for the athletic as- Seymour Ingerson, Chickasha, David St. Murray, Denver, Colo.; Violet Hope Poin- Clair, Norman, sociation and there remains more than Evelyn Anderson, Nor- dexter, Enid; Louise Payne, Moore; and $350,000 in unpaid subscriptions, or prom- man, Olive Hawes, Norman, Edwin Hum- Mary Looney, Muskogee. phrey, Chickasha, Malinda Brown, Mus- ises to pay for the Stadium-Union . kogee. On April 1, the bonds payment of $27,- First orator 982.50, which includes principal and in- The senior list, arranged in alphabeti- terest, was cal order, is as follows: to be paid. The athletic coun- Junius M. Austin, '33 edu., won first cil, which is standing and liable for the Frank Appleman, Tulsa, Wyatt Bel- place and $60 in the state peace oratorical Stadium-Union payment, has only $17,455 cher, Norman, Edith Bills, Texola, Doris contest, sponsored by the Intercollegiate available. Mr Owen announced that a plan Cole Burnes, Norman, Marguerite Chamb- Peace association, which was held at the whereby the 1933 gate receipts in all less, Norman, Janet Comfort, Norman, university in March. "World Peace by Sooner sports would be offered as collater- Mellie Justice Cook, Norman, Mary Inzer Conscription of Property," was Austin's al for an extension of the bonds to a fif- Davis, Tulsa, Lowell Dunham, Norman, subject. Second place went to Charlotte teen-year basis, from the present . ten-year Leota Fratcher, Springfield, Ill., Calvin Sears, Oklahoma City university; and basis. This plan would eliminate necessity Good, Chickasha, Elmer Harrelson, Hold- third place was won by Horace Goss, rep- of borrowing more than $10,000 this year enville, Catherine Harris, Antlers, Louise resentative of Central State Teachers Col- to pay indebtedness. The athletic fund Hohl, Sand Springs, Richard Hollings- lege. deficit was worth, due largely to the drop in gate Madill, Selma Huggins, Norman, receipts on football and the sale of only Ada Hawkins, Lexington, Caroline Ma- Jobs for druggists $16,000 in student tickets. The 1931 ticket son, Oklahoma City, Robert McKinney, sale to students was $25,000 and the 1930 Amarillo, Tex., Bluford Minor, Altus, The depression does not seem to have sale, $34,000. The football receipts must George Slemmer, Okeene, William Swan, hit the drug store business. Perhaps with support the sports program.