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...four straight, but in the last two weeks they had been beaten twice. For days the campus at South Bend had echoed with pep rallies; the underdog Irish knew that this was the one to win. All through three quarters the hopped-up Irish line hammered at Coach Bud Wilkinson's well-drilled Sooners. For all their consummate fakery, none of Oklahoma's quarterbacks could shake loose on their famed run-pass option play. The lean, long-muscled Oklahomans who had never played on a losing team were hard put to hold the game to a scoreless...
...would probably be a good thing for the team to lose, said University of Oklahoma President George Cross. "Overemphasis on the winning part of the game will ultimately destroy it." But Oklahoma Coach Bud Wilkinson and his Sooners did not seem to be listening. They whipped Missouri, 39-14, to lengthen football's longest current winning streak (47 games) and earned a trip to the Orange Bowl...
...Union Committee has chosen its officers and Student Council representatives. Eugene Langevin of Stoughton Hall and Ferndale, Mich., has been chosen chairman, J. Thomas Rosche of Massachusetts Hall and Omaha, Neb., vice-chairman and treasurer, and Robert W. Wilkinson, Jr. of Grays Hall and Portland, Ore., secretary. Lewis B. Oliver, Jr., Robert E. Weil, and Hastings Wyman, Jr. are the new Council representatives...
Alternating four powerful teams, any one of which seemed capable of handling Pitt, Oklahoma's Coach Bud Wilkinson saw his boys roll for 310 yds. on the ground, connect for three touchdown passes and top off the scoring with a 13-yd. touchdown dash by Right Half Clendon Thomas. "We have a heck of a lot of polishing to do," said modest Oklahoma Co-Captain Don Stiller, just as if he had not noticed the final 26-0 score. The remark made almost as much sense as Coach Wilkinson's pre-game prediction: "Frankly...
...Cleveland Clinic's Irvine H. Page (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955) and Arthur C. Corcoran. Harvard's Fredrick J. Stare, New York University's Herbert Pollack and Charles F. Wilkinson...