Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California sun beating down on Berkeley's Strawberry Canyon was made to order for the visitors from Oklahoma. In town to take on the University of California's Golden Bears for intercollegiate football's nationally televised game-of-the-week, the Sooners warmed up fast. By the end of the first half they had a slim lead (7-6). But their outweighed (by some 15 Ibs. a man) line was out charging its opponents, their slam-bang tackling was setting up California fumbles, their split-second ball-handling was beating the Bear line backers to the punch...
Such early-season skill was not easily come by. For two tough training weeks in Oklahoma's late-summer heat, Coach Bud Wilkinson had been driving his men to the ragged edge of exhaustion. Up each day before dawn, a leather-tough squad of 58 Sooners-including a nucleus of 20 veterans-had been busily belting each other groggy. The Wilkinson split-T breaks down into intricate offensive patterns, but the Wilkinson formula for success is simple: "Sweat, sweat, and more sweat." The Sooners sweated. Hour after hour. Quarterback Gene Calame pirouetted through a series of fakes to perfect...
Coach Wilkinson's hard-driving trickery has given Oklahoma one of the brightest records in modern college football (61 won, 3 tied. 7 lost). But getting past "Pappy'' Waldorf's well-coached Californians in the first game of the season still looked like quite a trick. At Berkeley, the Sooners showed that they could...
College Football (Sat-4:30p.m., ABC). California v. Oklahoma...
After the Storm. Coping with disaster is an important but infrequent duty for Wendell Barnes, who heads the first independent agency in U.S. history to serve the nation's 4,000,000 small businessmen. An Oklahoma attorney and ex-small businessman himself, Wendell Barnes took over last November from William Mitch ell (no kin to Labor Secretary James Mitchell), whose tight-fisted policies had convinced businessmen that SBA loans were only for defense or what Mitchell considered "essential" civilian industries...