Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Converging on the Municipal Theater in Tulsa for joint concerts next month, as Oklahoma celebrates its 50th anniversary of statehood, were four internationally famed ballerinas, Qklahomans all, and all of Indian descent: Rosella Hightower of the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, Marjorie Tallchief of the Paris Opéra Ballet, her sister Maria Tallchief of the New York City Ballet, and Yvonne Chouteau of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo...
...first time they got their hands on the ball, the Oklahoma Sooners sent Pittsburgh's Panthers sprawling after a perfectly executed quick kick. From then on, starting the 1957 football season against the nation's No. 1 team, the Panthers, rated high among Eastern teams, were outmaneuvered, outrushed. outdefended, outkicked, outpassed...
...illusion that the Sooners had taken a dreadful chance in scheduling a tough first-game opponent had been nourished in Pittsburgh for weeks. The last team even to tie Oklahoma (42 games ago in 1953), the Panthers were said to have the stuff that makes for upsets. But even before the kickoff in Pitt Stadium, Pitt knew better. Sportswriters watched Oklahoma at practice, raced to their typewriters and passed the word. Wrote the Sun-Telegraph's George Kiseda: "The Sooners ran through everything as though they were qualifying for the Olympic 100-meter-dash final. On straight-T pitchouts...
Alternating four powerful teams, any one of which seemed capable of handling Pitt, Oklahoma's Coach Bud Wilkinson saw his boys roll for 310 yds. on the ground, connect for three touchdown passes and top off the scoring with a 13-yd. touchdown dash by Right Half Clendon Thomas. "We have a heck of a lot of polishing to do," said modest Oklahoma Co-Captain Don Stiller, just as if he had not noticed the final 26-0 score. The remark made almost as much sense as Coach Wilkinson's pre-game prediction: "Frankly...
...Oklahoma. Integration has marched along with surprising speed, a notable absence of strife. Only 51 districts out of 1,639 are still entirely segregated...