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...like plotting a military campaign. I get a tremendous kick out of it." Like Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, the master coach, Blaik can be found at his desk as early as 8 a.m. and as late as mid night. Oklahoma's shrewd, hard-working Coach Bud Wilkinson, 34, begins his day at 7:30. He, too, exploits the organization of manpower, but with variations on the theme. For old time's sake, he uses versa tile Halfback George ("Junior") Thomas on both offense and defense, usually alternating the rest of his backfield whenever the ball changes...
...lines alternate about every five minutes no matter which team has the ball. Coach Wilkinson thinks it is good for morale to let everybody help to score the touchdowns. In the era of super-coaching, when defensive and offensive adjustments are made up to the instant the ball is snapped, a new type of football player is in demand. The first quality Wilkinson and other topflight coaches look for, even in linemen: ability to react quickly...
...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...
Same Values. Few Southern papers indulge in the old "inflammatory treatment" of race stories, says Race in the News, but there are still a few lucifers: "[Newsmen] strongly suspect that the 1946 riot in Columbia, Tenn. and the 1949 lynching in Wilkinson County, Ga.* would never have happened had editors there showed either more courage or less prejudice...