Friday, November 3, 1944
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NORMAN, Okl., Nov. 2. For
the third time this fall, Coach
Dewey "Snorter" Luster's Okla
boma Sooners will engage an un
defeated football team when they
battle Iowa State's sprightly Cy
clones Saturday afternoon at
Ames in a game that, barring a
tie, will leave only one undefeated
team in the topsy-turvy Big Six
conference race.
The Sooners have already
stopped two unbeaten clubs this
autumn. Coach Homer Norton
Texas Accics and Coach Leo
Dutch" Meyer's Texas Christian
Horned Frogs of the Southwest
conference. The Oklahomans cle
feated the Texas Aggies, 21-11.
and the Texas Christians, 34-19.
in thrilling offensive battles at
Oklahoma City's tiny Tart sta
dium.
Iowans TouRh.
Vanquishing Iowa State will be
lots tougher, because Coach Mike
Michalske's boys will be playing
before their Homecoming crowd
and will fight their hearts out
trying to win Iowa State's first
conference football title of all
time. The Cyclones are always
double tough for Oklahoma at
Ames. In 1938 Tom Stidham's
Sooners, Big Six champs, were
out-rushed and given a tremen
dous scare before triumphing over
a fighting Cyclone team, 10-0.
Michalske's Cardinal and Gold
souad attacks from T-formation
with Quarterback Joe Noble, who
seorefl the Cyclone touchdown on
Oklahoma last year, pouring
fire hose stream of forward passes
out of his whippy left arm and
also feeding a multitude of lat
erals and hand passes.
.Warner Leads I-S.
Fullback Meredith Warner,
swift 175 pound fellow, is Iowa
State's top running back but the
Iowans also own a nifty aerial
offensive with Noble flicking for
wards to End Rex Wagner and
Halfback Dick Howard.
Iowra State has defeated Gus
tavus Adolphus 49-0, Doane 59-0,
Kansas State 14-0, (Noble. Wag
ner, Howard and Guard Charley
right of Iowa State did not play
in this game), and tied Missouri
at Columbus 21-21.
OKlahoma's record isn't so good
but the Sooner schedule has been
far thornier. Luster's team lost its
opener, 28-14, to the Norman
Navy Zoomers, who later beat
Glenn Dobbs 2nd Air Force Su
per-Bombers. The Sooners also
let three forward passes go thru
them for a 20-0 loss to Texas
However Luster's team showed a
world of offense in the wins from
Texas Aggies and Texas Chris
tian, and also in the 68-0 wrap-
up oi Kansas Mate.
Sooners Fast
Fast Eainins rxise and versatil
ity, the Sooner attack is a mixture
of infantry and air power. The
statistics show that Oklahoma
would rather run. The Sooner
running game swapped the Zoom
ers touchdown for touchdown
drove to three long scoring
marches against the Texas Ag
ies and out-varded Texas.
However when an opponent
gangs its defense along the scrim
mage line to stop the Sooner run
ring as Texas Christian HiH Zut
urday night, the Sooners go into
the air. Oklahoma scored two
touchdowns aerially thru the thin
Frog secondary. Tailback Derald
i-dow rilling shots to Wingback
Charley Heard and End W. C.
-Dub" Wooten. Only the Zoom
ers and Texas have stifled Okla
homa's passes. Their big lines out
weighed the light Sooner for
wards nearly 20 pounds to the
man and didn't have to enlist
scrimmage line aid from the pass
defending backs.
Both Teams Convert.
Each team has shown a clever
conversion-kicker this year. War
ner, Cyclone fullback, has hit 18
this year including his last six in
a row. Wooten, the Sooner end,
has bagged 16 of 19, kicking two
clusters of eight straight !
It will be the 17th consecutive
Oklahoma-Iowa Statp psmc The
Sooners have won 13, the Cy
clones two and the 1936 game was
tied. Iowa State hasn't won in the
last 13 seasons but probably has
her finest opportunity of all time
this fall. The two schools began
jouing in 1928, the first year the
Eig Six conference was formed.
EScmcBi Warming
Dick Dihavcr
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The Oklahoma-Iowa State came at Ames Saturday
looms as the deciding factor to the Big Six football champ
for this season. Both the Sooners and the Cyclones are un
defeated in conference play but the Iowa players have a tie
marring their string. The Missouri Tigers were the team
that hung the even count with the Cyclones and if it hadn't
been for an early first quarter drive by the ISC team a
Missouri victory might have been possible.
The Sooners look like the best bet in the game with
a better set of Navy players bolstering their lineup than
those possessed by the Iowa State squad.
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With the Sooners and Cyclones fielding the only two
cross-country track teams in the conference this fall, the
loop running crown will also be at stake. But with there
being only the two teams running this fall, conference of
ficials are not allowing any award to be given for a cham
pion in this division.
Nebraska and Iowa should put a nice ball game before
the fans. The two stack up very even with the Iowans dis
playing power and weight while the Huskers have speed
to lend to their cause.
If the Huskers give out with the same type play and
spirit shown against- the Mizzou eleven last week the
Hawkeyes will have their hands full.
Elsewhere in the Big Six, Kansas State again plays
Wichita University. The Wildcats and Shockers played t
a 6-6 tie earlier in the season but the Aggies are expected
to take the Wichitans in stride, this time.
Kansas University tangles with the Olathe Naval Air
Station team and the Jayhawks ought to come out on top
in this scrap. It might turn either way though with the
Kansas team being unpredictable as the Kansas weather.
Missouri clashes with the Michigan State eleven and
again it is hard to say who will come out on top. Bill Del
lestatious could upset the Michigan apple-cart but by the
actions of the Tigers the last two games, it is not likely.
Notre Dame and Navy take the national spotlight
with those who are fools enough to try and predict the
winners (like us, for instance) going both ways on the
matter. We like the Sailors this time but could very easily
be wrong.
Minnesota and Northwestern hold the Bier Ten lime
light in the Gophers' annual homecoming struggle. Always
quite a ball game, the showing the Golden Gophers made
against Ohio State last week is reason enough for us to
give them the nod.
Ohio State and Indiana mirht take the honors tbA.
aay in the big Ten away from the Gopher-Wildcat classic,
in fact they will as this looks like the key to champion-
snip iui me winner, rne Hoosiers are plenty hot but we
don't believe they can outdo' the Buckeyes who look as if
they are headed for the loop title.
u ,Bo.wl,fever is already getting around. Southern Cal is
the logical choice to handle honors in the Rns Rnwi
New Years Day but western fans are hollering for an Pact.
era team to match the Trojans, Georgia Tech might be the
answer to their cries. We'd just as soon wait awhile be
fore we try to say who is going to play who in the post
season classics.
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Jack Sclzer. 2!. nets off pass past Sam Clrvrwrer, 16, as Bill Rett
goes after the Missouri end. Other Huskers are Frank Hazard, 11,
and Dick l-imborty, 42.
Fein Fun
BY ELEANOR KNOLL.
Preparing to meet the Iowa
State team on Nov. 11, the Field
Hockey club is now meeting twice
a week. Coming with that school's
football team, the 15 women
hockey team from Ames should
find more than a little competi
tion from the UN hockey enthusiasts.
Badminton club will be organ
ized immediately under the lead
ership of Clara Rausch and stu
dent chairman Betty Lou Horton.
Those interested should contact
Miss Horton.
Alpha Xi's won in the finals of
the soccer team from the Kappas
to start off the year with a big
victory in the first tournament,
5 to 1. The winners have been
challenged by the WAA Council
to a game in the near future. Any
more challengers should contact
the WAA office.
Lt. Francis Leik
Found in Pacific
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The Navy department has in-j
formed the parents of Lt. (s.g.)
Francis H. Leik, who has been'
missing since midnicht Tuesdav.
Oct. 24, that he has been located
and rescued with twelve other
members of his crew.
Having returned from eighteen
months of service in the south
Pacific, Lieutenant Leik was re
porting again for combat duty
at the time of the crash. A mem
ber of Nebraska's famed Rose
Bowl squad, he telephoned his
parents from San Diego Sundav
night and said that he was un
injured but hungry. Leik and the
twelve men rescued with him
were found floating on a rubber IN
had been since their plane crashed
into the sea.
Lieutenant Leik enlisted imme
diately after the bombing of Pearl
Harbor.
Politics
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dents shifted to Dewey. After
hearing the debaters, seven
Dewey voters became undecided
while . one Dewey supporter
climbed onto the Roosevelt band
wagon. In her einht minute talk. Miss
Mattoon said that the republicans
will offer full employment by
working with both industry and
labor. Dewey plans to protect la
bor by creating private jobs, in
creasing the nation's purchasing
power and extending old age pen
sion, unemolovment insurance
and social security to all groups.
she stated.
Increase Production.
"By providing for full employ
ment, more people will be able to
buy agricultural products with the
resu-t that the nation's farmers
will have to produce even more
than they are now," M.ss Mat
toon pointed out. Other farm
benefits advocated by the repub
lican party are increased crop re
search, a new crop insurance pro
gram and farmer-owned and
managed co-ops.
On the subject of taxes. Miss
Mattoon said that the tax bill will
be overhauled and simplified and
put on a consistent basis. In
creased efficiency and economy
of the government will result
from reducing the trend toward
centralization and by establishing
a responsible cabinet set-up, she
stated. "The republican domestic
platform does not favor just one
group but all groups," she con
cluded. Mil'er Defends Demos.
Bill Miller in presenting the
domestic issues of the democrats
said that Roosevelt's social legis
lation has not been equaled since
the first World war. "Some peo
ple say that the present program
is full of holes. If this is true the
people who should plug up these
holes are the ones who initiated
the program. Why not let the peo
ple who are doing a good job now
keep it up?" Mi'ler said.
Roosevelt's record which has
been opposed by Dewey on many
issues should prove that there is
no need for a change in admin
ist ration, is Miller's belief. Miller
also quoted Walter White's state
ment that the characteristic fail
ure of Dewey was his negative
stand on racial discrimination and
ended his speech by saying that
the country needs a peace maker
who believes in equality and hu
man rights Roosevelt.
Two Point Policy.
Dexter Sharp based his outline
Jof the republican foreign policy
on two points: it provides ior
friendly relations with all nations
and for two-fisted action against
any aggressors. a w oria
league of at least 60 nations
having equal voice determined
by population and power is Dew
ey's plan and not a league con
trolled by the 'Big Three.' as
drawn up at Dumbarton Oaks,"
Sharp pointed out.
In discussing Roosevelt's past
foreign policies, Sharp said that
the president sabotaged the Feb
ruary, 1933, world economic con
ference; mollycoddled Petain and
Badoglio; refused to see De Gaulle
until recently, and abandoned Po
land to Russia.
"Dewey will formulate a pol
icy that will tell the people what
a foreign policy is," Sharp de
clared. The last speaker in the debate,
Al Reddish, said that Roosevelt is
the man who formulates first
what Dewey later advocates.
"Death blows to selective service,
lend lease, the destroyer base ex
change and naval appropriations
after Pearl Harbor were all dealt
by Dewey supporters, he declared.
Reddish also said that Churchill
and Stalin have rrr'-dence in
Roosevelt and that the country
needs such an experienced, fore-
sighted, enthusiastic and trusted
man for a leader.
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