Word: wilkinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oklahoma's most cherished citizens this fall is big, blond Bud Wilkinson, 34, who learned his football as a guard and quarterback at Minnesota. After his first year as head coach at the University of Oklahoma two years ago (7 games won, 2 lost, 1 tied), he got offers from Yale and the Naval Academy. This season, to keep him from straying, Oklahoma boosted his salary to $15,000 (more than the president of the university was getting). Coach Wilkinson decided to stay awhile...
Until somebody stopped Wilkinson & Co. (and the University of Texas seemed the only opponent in sight strong enough to give them an argument), Oklahoma belonged in the running for the national championship...
...Nazi war machine. General Lucius Clay, then Military Governor of Germany, retorted that any further break-up of German enterprises "would be a political and not a security measure." His staff, which got much of the blame from the committee, was even sharper. Sneered his economic adviser Lawrence Wilkinson: the Ferguson report was "low comedy...
...meet today at Princeton, where it goes against a combined Princeton, Cornell squad. Varsity Coach Jaakko Mikkola predicts this will be a close meet, as will the one here next week. "The Englishmen are good," he pointed out yesterday. Jaakko singled out quarter miler Angus Scott, sprinter John Wilkinson, and miler Roger Bannister as particularly outstanding...
...Wilkinson ran the 100 meters in 10.5 at Paris in 1947," he reported, "and that was the fastest time made in the event by a European sprinter. If it had been 100 yards, his time would probably have been down around...