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Sooner SportsBy HAROLD KEITH

OKLAHOMA this year won its second BigSix conference championship and kept in-violate without defeat a string of 13 BigSix games since 1942 . Five Sooners madethe all-Big Six team of United Press. Theywere Ends W. C . "Dub" Wooten (whowas invited to play in the East-West gameand accepted and Merle "Red" Dinkins,Tackle John Harley, Center Bob Mayfieldand Back Derald Lebow.The Sooners played hull-gull football

this autumn, breaking a 25-year record byscoring 227 points and 34 touchdowns, themost an Oklahoma team has made in asingle season since 1919. However Okla-homa also permitted her opponents an all-time record high of 149 points and 22touchdowns, and football at Norman was50 years old this fall .Oklahoma's 1944 record :

Oklahoma 14, Norman Navy Zoomers 28 .Oklahoma 21, Texas Aggies 14.Oklahoma 0, Texas 20 .Oklahoma 68, Kansas State 0 .Oklahoma 34, Texas Christian 19 .Oklahoma 12, Iowa State 7.Oklahoma 21, Missouri 21 .Oklahoma 20, Kansas 0.Oklahoma 6, Oklahoma Aggies 28 .Oklahoma 31, Nebraska 12 .The 6-28 defeat to Coach Jim Looka-

baugh's Oklahoma Aggies at OklahomaCity November 25 marked the first lossto the Aggies in 11 years, or since LynnWaldorf's Aggies beat the Sooners 13-0at Norman in 1933 . The Sooners duti-fully but ruefully handed over the cher-ished Aggie bell-clapper after the game .

After the season, the Sooners turneddown a bid to play Glenn Dobbs' Super-bombers in the Sun Bowl game . AthleticDirector Dale Arbuckle made the decisionafter conferring with President GeorgeCross and Capt. John Donelson, comman-dant of the campus Naval unit . "TheNavy's 48-hour rule forbids our playingat El Paso . Besides, our squad is tiredfrom its long, hard ten-game scheduleand we have achieved our season's objec-tive, winning the Big Six championship,"Arbuckle told the press.The University of Oklahoma's new Big

Six conference faculty representative, 44-year-old Dr . John Hervey, dean of theLaw School, attended the semi-annualDecember meeting of the conference inKansas City during which the Big Sixdads voted that coaches could initiate con-tacts with high school athletes and offerthem any employment open to regularlyenrolled students . In other words, the

SEASON UNDER WAYCoach Bruce Drake's Sooner cagershave more home games than ever be-fore on their schedule for this season

Which opened in December.

conference finally got around to legalizingwhat has always been the custom, allaround the league .

BASKETBALL : Coach Bruce Drake's O.U.team lost to the Naval Air GunnerySchool of Purcell 33-39 in its openinggame at Norman December 5, but nosedSouthern Methodist in its second contest41-40, when Jim Robison, freshman centerfrom Tulsa, jammed home a free throwin the final seconds.The Sooners are small and green this

year and answer to the nickname of theRoundball Runts. Harold "Scooter"Hines, a 5-foot 5%Z -inch discharged NavyV-12er, is the smallest man on the cluband heights of the other regulars run fromEd Lindenberg at 5-10, Don Buelow andBill Whaley at 5-11 to Jack Landon at sixfeet .

CROSSCOUNTRY : Coach John Jacobs'Sooners closed their season by defeatingthe Norman Naval Air Technical Train-ing Center Skyjackets at Owen Field, 31-23 . Jerry Thompson, former national col-legiate two-mile champion from Texas,was first in 15:58.6 for the course of threemiles and 200 yards, Sooner ClarenceVicklund was second and Lt . Johnny Wallof the Skyjackets third . However theSooners finished their next six runners,Bob Collins, Jack Osborn, Winston Hud-son, Terry Van Buskirk, Frank Leachand Bob Patterson, well ahead of the restof the Skyjacket team .

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