M. Kellerhals, Norman John Yovanoff, Lackawanna, New York Joseph Benton, Norman Wilma Costncr, Potcau Noel Jones, Elk City W. J. Farrell, Gainesville, Georgia 1) . S. Jackson, Oklahoma City \V . F. Sockler, Garber William E. McMurty, Shawn,-( H . E. Smith, Norman Bryan Colbert, Norman G G. Morales, Oklahoma City B. A. Sparks, Dallas Howard Samuell, Dallas John F. Burris, College Station, Texas George S. Turner, Holdenville Boyd F. Koepke, Dallas Lt . J. M. Landtroop, P. O. San Francisco l larold 1) . Ward, Houston Olive Reynolds, San Fernando J. W. Burkhart, Houston Arno C. Adams, Dallas Chester Sappington, Houston '1 '. M. Latitner, Earlville, Illinois B. () . Martin, Houston Marie Spencer, Nassau, Bahamas I larlan I) . Johnson, Lamar. Colorado A . J. Carter, Jr ., Newark, Ohio Charles R. Hoyle, Shawnee R. 1) . Olson, Mitchell, South Dakota Clifford L. White, Chandler Dr . C. F. (:astineau, Rochester Mrs. Fred V. Shirk-N, Watonga W. S. Mvcrs, Jr ., Tulsa Jack L. 'I way, Oklahoma City Lily 1". Stafford, Lawton V'clborn W. Sangcr, Oklahoma City F.. M. Rault, Elk Basin, Wyoming Hubcrt K. Chadwell, I lobbs, New Mexico R. M. Hippard, Hobbs Frank W. Michaux, I IunAo1l Christine Provence, Holdenville Mrs. (;. G. Rice, Tulsa J. Phil Burns, Fairvicw E. N. Sherrod, Ponca City H. E' . Taylor, Jr ., Schenectady Malcolm C. Oakes, Norman Ruth (;. Snoddy, Norman John N. Alley, Norman Agens O. McDMICI, Milwaukee E. S. Pratt, Wichita, Kansas C. M. Smith, Houston Ecerett Eaves, Shrcveport Willis Storm, San Antonio L. W. Ellis, Oklahoma City R. L. (alley, Bellaire Fred E. Miller, Jr ., Enid W. L. Lockett, Norman Robert M. Bass, Kilgore (;ordon Watts, Tulsa Frank Cleekler, Oklahoma City Adda Powers, Montrose, Colorado Dr. Milam F. McKinney, Oklahoma City Virgil M. Chapman, Jr., Tulsa Samuel H. Miller, Daisetta, Texas Mrs. E. L. Hessiner, Oklahoma City Robert H. George, Maysville P. C. and Elaine Honnold, Oklahoma City ,Ted W. Pitzer, Midland, Texas C. C. Diamond, South Gate, California Mrs. Wayne E. Lock, Dallas Mrs. Mary li . Power, Waco M. T. Johnson, Amarillo Frank O. Rcudelhubcr, Dallas :. Ross Hume, Anadarko J. R. McGraw, Tulsa Miss Mary Lou Miller, Norman Ruth Jurgcscn, Oklahoma City David Crow, Shrcveport R. 1' . Long, Oklahoma City Bill Carroll, rangy pole-vaulter frown OI(ernah, is Katherine T. Summers, Marietta W. B. Hambv, M. D., Buffalo, New York all set for another crack at the all-time University Mrs. Harold Kirk, Joliet, Illinois A. D. Whitten, Jr ., Denver pole-vault record . The tall education junior Anna K. Kelly, Oklahoma City Hedwig Schaefer, Norman hoisted himself over the bar at record-breaking ona Dillcy, Shrcveport Brad Risinger, Sand Springs levels twice daring the indoor season . ohn W. Anderson, Beverly Hills, California Dr . and Mrs. R . C. Mills, Oklahoma 1 City breezes, the 6-foot 4 /.-inch 178-pound Sooner Betty Jane Harbour, Muskogee Jane Newman, Bartlesville star whom Coach Jacobs calls. "Lucky Strike" is H. 13 . Revelle, Ardmore Fula E. Fullerton, Oklahoma City now in the slump he always encounters when '(IJEEFP . E. Reigle, Midland, Texas Edith M. Jones, Mansfield he makes the difficult change from indoor to . W. Mrs. out- Sampson, Monahans, Texas Wanda M. McCollum, Tulsa door vaulting . Dale 11 . Johnson & Sybil Clover Johnson, Enid Fay, M. Duke, Tacoma, Washington "When you start vaulting outdoors, you never rank M. Long, Roanoke Orel B. Lindsey, Igloo, South Dakota know whether the wind is with you, against you Dorothy F. Cram, Norman Lynn Jacobsen, or coming in from the side," moans Carroll. Mrs. Frank Grass, Oklahoma City Mrs. J. L. LcCronc, Norman A pole-vaulter falling 14 feet with only thin-soled Milton J. Jackson, Grensboro, Herman Loeb, Shrcveport spiked shoes on his feet is naturally anxious about hyllis B. Anderson, Hermosa Beach, California T. 1";. Nolen, Midwest City the landing pit beneath him. What's the best one . V. Woolsey, Joe M. Luling, Texas Bower, Bartlesville Carroll ever dropped into? William M. Simpson, Lawrence, Kansas Ben T. Head, Oklahoma City "The one in that Michigan State FIC4111OUSC," homer M. Million, New York he replies, promptly, "it was filled with sawdust Lucille E. Taylor, Oklahoma City The Carroll Story topped with several inches of wood shavings . Al- Kenneth A. Clem, Norman By HAROLD Kr=.rru, '29sA, 39MA most as good is Jake's home-made layout here of J. L. Hefley, Jr ., Oklahoma City From a seven-foot vault with a green willow pole prairie hay. You hit in it and bounce, like a kid W. C. Durham, Caspcr, Wyoming to a 14-foot 1-inch soar with a Swedish-built stick jumping off a hay stack. Sand landing pits are the John W. Hamill, Miami, Florida of tempered steel has been the pleasing improve- worst." Houston G. Johnson, Oklahoma City ntent of Bill Carroll, towering Oklahoma pole- What does a pole-vaulter do to get in trim John Ilorwitz, Oklahoma City vaulter from Okctnali, who is Coach John Jacobs' "He vaults . Also, we work in the gym on the Mrs. R. B . Gilmore, Dallas newest track phenomenon . bars and climb rope to build up our shoulders for Mr . and Mrs. James A. Butts, Jr ., Kilgore Carroll says that willow pole, cut from the the all-important push-up that jack knifes you over Miss Louise Pope, Baltimore banks of an Okfuskee county creek when he was the bar. Also, Jake makes us sprint lots to develop Mary E. McBrayer, Oklahoma City a youngster in knee pants at Okemah, was the best takeoff speed and stamina ." F. L. Thompson, Jr ., Encino, Texas he ever had. It was stout and whippy . Carroll can run the 100 in 10 .4 seconds and the Robert R. Durkee, Houston "If you can't talk the home town furniture store 220 in 22 .7 . Occasionally he gets "drafted" and Joe T. Dickerson, Houston man out of the bamboo pole his rugs come shipped runs a 220-yard leg on the Sooner half-mile relay Major J. H. Griffin, Dayton with, go down on the creek and cut yourself one of team . Mrs. Tom Mason, Hobbs green willow . It will flip you across the bar," is Carroll says the hardest thing about pole-vaulting L. A. Cullison, Skiatook Carroll's advice to all youngsters who aspire to be is sweating out an opponent's jump . The pole Mr . and Mrs. Morris McDannald, Houston pole-vaulters. vault is the longest event at any track meet . It W. J. Goldston, Houston Worrying and fretting as he practiced for the starts at 7 :30 p.m . and ends around 11 p.m . There's Rudolph W. Troup, Holdenvillc Texas Relays, Carroll looked like the symbol of a lot of wear and tear just watching your opponent J. M. Durrett, Amarillo gloom. Tossed about by the gusty Oklahoma (Sports Continued on Page 31)

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living in Wewoka. But Oklahoma's superior balance told . Coach Bud RAMSEY-MUNDE : Jean Ramsey, '48fa, Sul- Wilkinson's Sooner football team won the cham- phur,-anti Henry Lawrence Muntle, Norman, are at pionship . Coach Bruce ])rake's team tied for the home in Norman after their marriage in February . basketball crown. Coach John Jacobs' crosseountry Muntle is an engineering student at the University team, Coach Port Robertson's wrestling team and of Oklahoma . Coach Joe Glander's swim squad all picked off HAGGARD-SPURI,IN : Ouincy Pearl Haggard, runner-up honors in their sports and Jacobs' in- Piano, "Texas, and Marion George Spurlin, '48bus, door track squad was third. Clinton, were married recently in the home of the Emphasizing every sport on the calendar, Okla- bride's parents. Th e y arc residing in Clinton. homa has won the Big Seven all sports champion- -1949- ship 13 times to Nebraska's three, Iowa State's Fred W. Gill, '41-'4t), has cnrvdlcd in the Ben three, Kansas one, Missouri one. Bard School of Drama in , California . Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa State and Colorado Vacations participated in every sport officially recognized by He is thing practice reading for his first play . erxe Betty McLean McDonald, '49ba, is now employed the conference . Kansas has no wrestling, Kansas by the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company in Okla- State no swimming, while Missouri has neither a lioma City . wrestling nor swimming team . Santa Fe style golf, outdoor track still BRAY-STEPHENSON: Virginia C. Bray, '49, With tennis, baseball and and Larry E. Stephenson, '48journ, were married to be heard from, here's the Big Seven all sports March 12 in Edmond. Mrs. Stephenson is a soph- table for 19-18-49 : omore in the University of Oklahoma . Stephenson was president of Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fra- ternity, and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fra- OKLAHOMA'S ternity. He was editor of Sooner Magazine during the summer and fall of 1948 . He is head of the 1949 promotion and sales division of U. S. Savings Bonds FOOTBALL SCHEDULE in Oklahoma City, where the couple has established a home . *Sept . 23 Boston College at Boston Oct . 1 Texas Aggies at Norman Sports Continued Oct . 8 Texas at Dallas vault waiting to see if he makes or misses it . Car- I Oct . Kansas at Norman roll chews 15 dextrose cakes, as a release from his (Dad's Day) nervousness than for the quick pickup the product tOct . 22 Nebraska at Lincoln feast Of *ills is noted for. What does a pole-vaulter do when he hits a tOct. 29 Iowa State at Norman on your Santa Fe vacation (Homecoming) slump' That's when Carroll looks up his coach. f Kansas State at to and from California "Jake can take one Hook and tell you what you're Nov . 5 Manhattan doing wrong," says Carroll, "Also, he knows how Grand Canyon to relax you by coming in there with a wisecrack." tNov . 12 Missouri at Columbia It's easy visit to Grand Canyon "Pole-vaulting is all mental," Jacobs told Carroll Nov. 19 Santa Clara at Norman when you travel Santa Fe . Tell (Band Day) when the latter was having a bad week last winter, your ticket agent to include a "If a fellow can't go 14 feet, he hasn't got good Nov. 26 Oklahoma A&M at stopover. Norman mentality." Land of Pueblos Starting from that witticism, Carroll began the '"night game Now you can make 1, 2, or three-week climb that was culminated by his record tBig Seven Conference games 3-day motor cruises through indoor sail of 14-1 a month ago in the Central Col- the Indian country of New legiate indoor meet at F'ast Lansing, Michigan, be- Mexico . Stopovers convenient- licyctl the trip indoor jump fi)r an American col- ly arranged on your Santa Fe E. Comanche, Norman trip. Icgian this year . 314 Carlsbad Caverns Oklahoma Leads All Sports Clyde Black Dodge Motor Co. You'll enjoy an unhurried day long, low cost, all-expense tour Finishing no Hower than third in any sport, Phone 228 in this underground fairyland Oklahoma leads the Big Seven conference all sports with convenient trainside con- table for the school year 19-}8-4t) with six of the nection at Carlsbad . loop's ten recognized sports finished . The Sooners had a How of H%2, followed by Ranch Country Nebraska 17',4, Kansas and Missouri 26 each, Iowa LINDSAY DRUG STORE Santa Fe's colorful Southwest James S . Downing - The Druggist State 2(i ;_, Colorado 27 and Kansas State 33'/2 . has many ranches easily reached championships so far, Whitman's and Pangburn's Candies from the line . For infor- Nebraska has the most mation about accommodations, baying carried wrestling, indoor track and tied for PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY just consult your ticket agent. basketball . 116 E. Main . . .Norman . . . Phone 362 " On Santa Fe trains you'll envoy famous Fred Harvey meals INSURANCE

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