Word: oklahoma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conveys the very essence of the purposeful, straight-ahead backfield powerhouse. As a rule, however, the award that designates the country's best college football player goes to a man of flashier stripe-the fancy-Dan quarterback, the breakaway halfback. Not this year. In Tailback Steve Owens of Oklahoma, the Heisman electors tapped a man little given to subtlety afield. "Oh, he can fake people," says one of his coaches, "but more often he just splatters...
...Preference. Owens grew up in Miami, a dust-blown town in northeastern Oklahoma, and he always wanted to play for the Sooners. He was six years old in 1953, when Oklahoma started its 47-game winning streak; he was ten when Notre Dame snapped it. "I can't think of anything that brought as much glory to the state as those teams did," he says. "Everybody followed them. When I was working at Hub's Bootery on Main Street, we didn't sell many shoes between noon and 4 on Saturdays...
...today, Blankenship, from Spiro, Oklahoma, will start at quarterback for the Harvard varsity against Yale at New Haven. He will be the fifth starter that coach John Yovicsin has used at that position this fall, and it clearly shows what kind of a season it has been for Harvard...
World War II saved Royal from the fruit-picking odyssey. He joined the U.S. Army Air Force in 1943 and played for the Third Air Force at Tampa, Fla. After the war, Oklahoma Coach Jim Tatum had little trouble persuading the slight (5 ft. 11 in., 158 lbs.) quarterback to come home and try his hand at college ball. In 1947, Royal's sophomore year, Tatum was replaced by a youngster named Bud Wilkinson. Under Wilkinson's guidance Royal was named All-America quarterback in 1949. But the pro scouts considered him small, and he drifted into coaching...
...were met. At week's end the militants, having mobilized half of Vassar's 59 black students, ended their sit-in, saying they had won tentative agreement to their demands. > Langston University was roiled by the firing of President William H. Hale. About 450 students from the Oklahoma school, a predominantly black public campus, invaded the capitol and shouted "Pig!" at Governor Dewey Bartlett when he refused to explain the dismissal. The state regents later said Hale had been fired for "excessive drinking in public," a charge Hale denied. >At the University of Houston, an S.D.S. statement that...