Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last six minutes and won the Pacific Coast championship, 34-0. Back in the East, a left-handed passer named Frank White lobbed a 39-yd. toss over the heads of the Yale secondary and Harvard won its first Big Three title since 1941 (13-9). In the Southwest, Oklahoma trounced the Nebraska Cornhuskers, 55-7, to take its seventh successive Big Seven title. And in the second oldest college rivalry in the country, dear old Rutgers walloped Columbia (45-12) for the first time since...
...football season drew on, teams vanished from the unbeaten list like autumn leaves. Twice-tied Colgate was surprised by Syracuse, 31-12, while in the Southwest Conference, Arkansas switched too late from defense to offense and lost to Southern Methodist, 21-14. Remaining undefeated, untied teams: Ohio State, U.C.L.A., Oklahoma...
...other big games, Ohio State tightened its grip on Rose Bowl tickets by pounding Purdue, 28-6. To cinch the Big Ten title, the Buckeyes still have to get by once-beaten Michigan, which slammed Michigan State, 33-7. With its seventh Big Seven title in sight, Oklahoma knocked Missouri out of the running...
...outsiders who thought they could cure Slick's ailments took over the airline's management. In as new board chairman and top manager went Delos Wilson Rentzel, 45, a former CAA administrator, CAB chairman and Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation, who is now president of two Oklahoma City truck lines. In as director and executive committee member went Roy G. Woods, 54, Oklahoma oilman and owner of several trucking companies. Rentzel and Woods got a five-year option to buy 20% of Slick Airways stock (100,000 shares). Founder Earl Slick, whose family still owns...
...Give Me Death. In Oklahoma City, Isaac West was convicted of drunk driving, despite his insistence that he had a constitutional right to drive on either the left or right side of the road...