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-r ir JL I) Sooners Ease To Victory With Three Quick Scores We Haven't PJayed Besf 2 ivienes the ball was dead and gave State possession at the 47. It went Tor naught as the Pur BY DICK FENSLER Merenrr Area Editor BY DICK KING Mercury Sports Editor Oklahom's relentless football machine, priming for its New Year's Day game in the Orange Bowl, eased past Kansas State, 40-7, with minimum of trouble here Saturday afternoon before an estimated Homecoming crowd of 18,500 pie clads were forced to punt and Oklahoma was out at the 23 when the fmble set up the only K-State Kansas State was Una perfect host at the Homecoming Saturday, even soine so far as- to eive Ok counter. While Kansas State's fun was so lahoma three easy touchdowns in the first half by presenting the vis- r- iL i. i uklaboma was; taking ad tung owners ine imu neey in iv State territory on three fumbles. vantage of three Wildcat fumbles and a poor punt for four easy touchdowns and the other two scores came on marches of 77 and The speedy Sooners, efficiency personified behind a fast-charging and quick reacting line, tallied three touchdowns in a little more than five minutes of the first quar- However, during the second half the Wildcats apparently decided 98 yards.

Oklahoma has overstayed its wel come, and pushed the mighty Soon Kansas State was forced to punt on its first possession of the game ers around Memorial stadium in a manner that thrilled the 18,500 fans Not Sooner, Later and Tom McDonald returned the kick to the 23 to launch the 77- OU K8C who were nearly stunned by rap 'i f' i Ln j4 ,11 yard march that spanned 11 plays. First downs Rmliinf Yardage idity of the Oklahoma touchdown 20 .305 83 Passlnf Yardage parade late in the first quarter and 56 McDonald sparked the push, rae-li Jig a total of "2 yards in three Pangea Attempted Passes completed early in the second quarter. 10 4 0 carries and throwing a 17-yard pass 1 The final score was 40-7, but at Passes Intercepted by Piinta 3 to Bob Burris. Jim Harris sliced PunUng Average 339.7 the half it was 33-0 Sooners, and it appeared that the Sooners were out on over from seven yards Jr umblea Lost 3 a rm 1 I )' f.l: JL. 72 keerer off his own right side and ards Penalized .117 Penalties 12 Eoing to break -some sort of a scoring record.

SCORING PARADE Bin rricer Kicxea me poim wun The Kansas State Wildcats who KSC OU Lelt Scorer First Quarter 5:16. left in the period. came back for the second half bore no resemblance to the first half group. Their viscious play stopped the Oklahoma attack and earned the praise of both Coach It took just five plays for the score to mount to 14-0. Dick Corbin grounded the kickoff at the 22 and his pass fell incomplete.

os 0-7 0-13 0-14 0 20 0-21 0-27 Bob Timberlake then grabbed I Carrington fumble at the 18. Den Bus Mertes and Coach Bud Wilkinson. 5:16 Harris, 7-yard run Prlcer, piacekick 3:37 Thomas, 4-yard plunge Dorid, piacekick :08 O'Neil. 3-yard plunger Dodd, piacekick Second Quarter 14:04 Woodworth, 25-yard run with intercepted pitch-out Thimas, 4-vard plunge Third Quarter 11:39 McDonald, 10-vard run Pricer. olacekick Fourth Quarter Whitehead, 1-yd.

plunge Rusher, piacekick. nit Morris ran to the nine and Mertes. who possesses the happy faculty of seeing the bright side of Clendon Thomas made the distance in two plays, going four yards for things, was justifiably encouraged 0-33 0-39 0-40 6- 40 7- 40 the tally. Carl Dodd kicked the by the showing of a large group of underclassmen who pushed the point. LUGGING BACK A PUNT, Ralph Pfeifer (24), Kansas State Sophomore halfback, is nearing the end of a 3-yard return on Oklahoma's first boot of the Saturday game here.

The punt carried to the Wild cat 35 and Pfeifer returned to the 38 before he was cut down by Jerry Tubbs (53) and an unidentified Sooner. (Mercury photo.) A 9-yard punt by Ken Nesmith set Oklahoma up at the 26 on the Sooners around almost at will dur ing the final quarter. A This group consisted of Dick Cor ter countered twice more in the second stanza for a 33-0 intermis fourth play after the kickoff. sion margin and then coasted home. bin, Jerry Hayes, Ralph Pfeifer and Kenny Nesmith in the back-field with George Laddish Don It took six plays to go the 26 yards but with nine seconds left in the opening stanza, O'Neil went MA TIE MATTAN There was little consolation for the Wildcats.

They threated only once and that drive died after ad three yards for the counter. Dodd Zadnik, Bill Lindsey, John Keelan, Tom Gowing, Kerry Clifford and Burt Schmidt in the line. All ex kicked the point and the Sonners BUS MERTES WAS a man of many moods Saturday afternoon as his Kansas State team became Oklahoma's 25th straight victim. In the top picture, he turns to talk to Assistant Coach Steve Sucic who is receiving scouting reports from the press box and in the lower photo, he turns toward the field as the Sooners score the third touchdown in a big first quarter. (Mercury photos).

vancing as far as the OU 22. owned a 21-0 edge. A. I JUL M. cept Schmidt and Clifford will be back next -year.

There were two bright aspects Kansas State was forced back to for the hosts. They stopped Okla its 24 on two plays after the kick- "We still haven't played our best hama at their own eight before off and then came a weird fum launching their best offensive drive ME ball," Mertes added, and then mentioned the plague of fumbles. The boys don't want to fumble SPORTS ble that enabled Oklahoma' to add the first counter of the second SPORTS of the game and they scored the I know that, and it wasn't De causa rtiev were beine hit hard period. Whitehead was pitching out to Ralph Pfeifer and the ball hit only points a K-State team has scored against the Sooners on home sod since 1947. That year, Okla MANHATTAN, KANSAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1955 bis hands and shot up into the air.

Tackle Cal Woodworth grabbed homa won a 27-13 decision here but since then, the Wildcats have They were just freezing on the 4 hand-offs." Alertes said the squad came through the stiff battle in fine hare with one exception. Dick the ball under a full head of UCLA Moves Near Rose Bowl With Win Over Bears gone scoreless at home. The only Loss String Ends steam and was past the started Wildcats before they could stop points scored. in the eight intervening years were six scored in a 49-6 defeat at Norman in 1952. Corbin, who had to leave the him in his 25-yard scoring jaunt Kansas State was able to move game in the middle of the fourth quarter, may have a cracked rib, and it is not known whether he to the invader 26 before the next LOS ANGELES, Ufi The UCLA Bruins moved another Bob Whitehead had the honor late in the final stanza after the count had reached 40-0.

Ellis Rainsberg- Grid Scores BIG SEVEN Oklahoma 40, K-State 7. Nebraska 19, Kansas 14. Misouri 20, Colorado 12. BIG TEN Ohio State 49, Northwestern 0. Michigan State 27, Wisconin 0.

Indiana 21, Ohio U. 14. Big Red touchdown march started. will be able to play against Kan in a next Saturday. Corbin ran 30 yards to the Okla- er set the stage when he grabbed Missouri Stuns Buffs, 20-12; Passes Are Key stride toward the Rose Bowl today, using they reserves in the main to smash California, 47-0 in a4 Pacific Coast Conference game.

Jay O'Neal's pitchout fumble at Continued on Page 2) Wilkinson firmly stated that there was nothing wrong with his the 18 and K-State scored in two plays. Tony Addeo whipped over unbeaten team in the second nan. "Kansas Stats Dlaved a ZOOd side and -the The whitewash was toe worst rPuTdue Illinois i iiniA th second half and it was suffered by California since Coach Michigan 33, Iowa 21. leather to the one. Whitehead tallied from there with 5:43 to go on i Michigan State Stampedes Past tbeir hard-hitting play that stop Lynn O.

Waldorf took charge at BOULDER, Ufi son a 20-12 triumph over Colorado a sneak over the left side. Jim Xas. freshmen 33, Air Force Academy Six magnificent catches by senior i ped us. The nnlite. soft-snoken football Rusher kicked the point and K- display that broke the Tigers seven-game losing streak.

In the first quarter Burnine grabbed an 18-yard pass from quarterback Jimmy Hunter and a Saturday. Ths disappointed Homecoming crowd of 30,000, shocked by Colorado's ineptness, applauded the 6- ppniiu had little else to say about Harold Burnine Keyed three Bethel College 10, Baker UnJvsnsity Denver 33. New Mexico 6 first half pass-powered touchdown the game except to remark that State had the consolation of ending that scoring drouth at Manhattan that stretched back over Texas is. southern Meuiodist ia drives that fired Missouri to its "we received a lot of breaRs on foot 2-inch end sticky-fingered 10-yarder from halfback Sonny sea- sc'A MuhienbrrS first footbaU victory of the Oregon 25. Idaho 0 0 three games here.

Wisconsin Glib MADISON, UR -Michigan State, with sophomore Walt Kowalczyk gobbling up more yardage than a runaway steam shovel, smothered Wisconsin 27-0 Southwestern, Memphis 33, Millsaps. fumbles," and then turned to ad minister to his charges. He would assist with a coat here check on a bumn there, and quick The best Kansas State drive of Stringer to highlight a 61-yard drive in 13 plays for the opening score. Burnine's catch of a 12-yard toss Miss. 7 Wyoming 14, Brigham Young 6 Haun Of Dwight Is the day came earlier when it took North Dakota 21, North Dakota state South Dakota Stat 27, South Dakota seven plays and two Sooner penalties to move from the eight to the St.

01 if 47. Monmouth, ill. 0 ly made the rounds of all the Sooners to see personally that they Saturday and remained within striking distance of the Big 10 Mercury Player Of Week Moorhead, Minn. Teachers 13, Michl-- (an Tech from Hunter featured a 39-yard touchdown drive touched off when Stringer intercepted a Colorado OU 22. Bill Carrington gained six, five and three yards and White Berkeley in 1947, and was even more embarrassing to the Bears since the afternoon in 1940 when Tommy Harmon led Michigan to a 41-0 licking.

Historians have to go back to 1930 for a larger score Southern California's 74-0 victory over the Bears. Registering their fourth conference triumph against no defeats, UCLA unloaded three touchdowns in a big second quarter to clinch the game, that is if any clinching were needed. Halfback Ronnie Knox, whose transfer from California after his freshman year stirred up an uproar, took the field for the first time against his "alma mater" and turned in a fine performance. He scored two touchdowns and was the passing star of the game. Maryville State, Mo.

11. Rolla. Mo. 6 ball championships. were OK and feeling in fine let tie.

Northwest Oklahoma 19, Ks. in uwignts 34-in romp over ine pass. Missouri ran the count to 20- head ran for 12 in the push to the Lincoln University, Mo. 14, Alcorn Maroons 0 midway in the second quarter on 42. Two penalties moved the ball The heads up Spartans scored their four touchdowns two by Ko Haun rambled accross the double stripe on runs of 42, 38 and 41 to the 22 but the fun ended soon Wilkinson would, as usual, make no comparison between Kansas and Kansas State saying, "It is Lmnossible to compare two teams a 32-yard drive following Larry Plumb's recovery of C.U.

wing- walczyk on just 14 plays in cold, By KEITH KEMPER Mercury Sports Writer Luckey High of Manhattan suffered its first setback of the season last week after four straight victories and the boy that guided Dwight to the victory earns the ac after. yards, with his scoring feat the big steady rain at Camp Randall Sta dium before a capacity Badger Addeo had to retreat to the 37 to cover a fumble on a double re playing on two different days." back Mel Warner's fumble. A Hun-ter-to-Burnine pass covered 18 yards. homecoming crowd of 53,529. A St MISS.

Colorado State 14, Colored Mines 0 UCLA 41. California 0 Oregon State 13, Washington 1 Stanford 34, Son Jose State 18 Omaha 27, Northern Illinois 12 John Carroll 21, Case Tech 6 Pittsburg, Ks. 7, Emporia State 0 Cane Girardeau 13, Central Mo. State 12 Wheaton 12. North Central, 111.

7 Eureka, 111. 12, Principia. 8 Lake Forest, 111. 37, Elmhurst, III. IS Illinois State Normal 20, Lewis College 20 blow to the Luckey six.

The victory gives Dwight a sea son mark of 5-1 with the only de feat being a 14-12 decision to Ri The victory gave Michigan State colade as Mercury "Area Player Except for the play of, the wiia-jjats in the- second half, there wa. little excitement in the game. Colorado, taking to the air in a verse and after Whitehead gained to the 32, two passes fell incomplete to kill the drive. a 3-1 conference record and vir tually eliminated Wisconsin from of The Week." He is Harold Haun, speedy halfback, who scored three touchdowns Apparently even when a top team ley. Haun is the team's leading scorer with eight touchdowns 'to Kansas State made it to the contention.

The Badgers have lost two of four Big 10 starts. Sooner 40 in the opening quarter, desperate fourth quarter drive, struck for two touchdowns. Midway of the quarter soph tailback Bob Stransky tossed a 27-yard scoring pass to end Frank Clarke in the end zone. his credit. Hiram 28, Otterbein 13 Auburn Surprised Kowalczyk, a 5-11, 198 pound Muskingum S4, Capital 14 Ohio Northern 19.

Marietta 0 of the nation is playing, tne weu-known dog puts in an appearance. He trotted on the field with Oklahoma's second unit, after the first touchdown of the game, and play-in a under free substitution rules. Three area linemen pushed Haun for the honor this week and all are ends. Bod Lutz, Randolph, although his team 'was defeated back, accounted for 172 yards on NEW ORLEANS, OB to the 26 in the second canto and to the 19 in the final period. The other final-canto venture into Soon-erland resulted in a touchdown that officials called back.

Magnificent Gene Newton threw With less than a minute to play Chattanooga 7, Dayton 7 (tie) Ohio Wesleyan 42, Sewanee 12 Xavier, Ohio 19, Boston College 12 Akron 53. Wooster 6 10 carries including the fantastic total of 140 yards in the first half two touchdown passes Saturday in Minnesota Stuns Favored Trojans In Snow, 25-19 he and his companion made fre 28-26 by Waterville, still turned in Colorado A 12, Montana 7 when he raced 72 yards with Chuck Zickeliose grabbed an senior tailback Homer Jenkins pitched an 18-yard scoring pass to end Jerry Leahy. an out-standing performance in the guiding sizzling Tulane to a 27-13 upset victory over Auburn, the nation's eighth ranked football power. handoff for the touchdown that put quent appearances there after. But, then as they say, every dog Oklahoma bobble at the 40 and ran to the end zone but officials rulled the Spartans out in front.

Colorado stopped a Missouri has his day. line play. Wayne Setchell of Wake field and Steve Douglas of Man hattan High were the others drive on its 14 early in the fourth period and with Stransky pitching three vital passes, moved 86 yards vanoermii at, Virginia Mississippi State 20, North Texas State Utah State 39, Fresno State 14 Washington, St Louis 27, Washington and Lee 0 Tulane 27, Auburn 13 Panhandle A A 28, Arizona State at Flagstaff 7 North Carolina State 33, Furman 7 Western Reserve 7, Wayne Albion 20, Alma 13 San Diego State College 7, San Francis As Is the practice following an Oklahoma game, there must be a listine of all their achievements. MINNEAPOLIS, Wl Weather-hardened Minnesota reveled in a swirling snowstorm Saturday mm Lutz was the outstanding man on in nine plays for their first touch to beat heavily favored South-'the fieM in the Waterville game and Therefore, achievements follow: it down. Stransky hit Wally Men in addition to his rugged defen was their 25th straight win.

their ern uaiuornia Z3-ia Denina me sledgehammer blows of sophomore with two passes totaling 20 yards and finished off the drive with his pitch to Clarke. co State 8 sive play, threw the key block on a 70-yard run by Kenny Hanson. 50th straight in the Big Seven with out a defeat, their 101st consecu Western State 48, Colorado College 13 fullback Dick Borstad. He also tackled a Wakefield ball tive scoring game, and their 19th A Homecoming crowd of Soma kv- iwv On the ensuing kickoff Missouri's 60,000, huddling in. 33 degree fourth string quarterback Richard carrier in the endzone for a safe ty.

straight over Kansas Mate, ana Usting. weather, saw the 10th-ranked Call Eastern Oregon 26, Portland State 20 Evansvllle S3, Indiana State 19 East Texas State 14, Sam Houston State 0 California Poly 19, Midwestern Tex: 7 Texas Southern 20, Langston, Okla. 20 Concordia, Neb. 14, Dana. Neb.

7 Prairie View, Tex. College 26, Arkansas fornians outpowered by a team which -was almost faultless in the Setchell played a strong defensive game for Wakefield in the contest and was constantly in the Stuber touched the ball down on his 3-yard line, apparently thinking it was in the end zone. The Tigers couldn't take it out, and after punt exchange Colorado started its second touchdown drive on their face of wretched weather. Borstad slammed for two touch Frogs Impressive In 28-8 Victory Michigan Normal 14, Eastern Illinois 7 Southern Illinois 13, Western Illinois State IS downs and blocked a kick which Randolph backfield. He is a sen ior end for the Blue Bombers.

Douglas, Manhattan ace flank Chicago Utllnl 19, Rose Poly I set up one to take the thunder 32. A Iff) Flasljy from Southern Cal's great back, 77 man, caught passes from Sonny Three consecutive pass comple Jon Arnett. Mississippi 29, Louisiana state 20 Southern State, Ark. 29 Little Rock Junior College, Arkj IS Arkansas A 20. Arkansas Tech 7 Chico State 47.

University of Nevada 0 (More scores on page 2) All America candidate James Swink led Texas Christian to an Ballard to score two early touch The Californians, beaten pre- downs for the Indians and put tions by Jenkins brought Colorado its final touchdown. Jenkins hit Leahy for 25, Warner for 20 and then hit Leahy for the touchdown. impressive 28-8 victory over Bay lor's discipline-riddled Bears Sat Manhattan off to a good start In i 1 only by Washington, couldn't marshal a sustained drive until deep in the fourth quarter the 60-0 decision over Emporia urday virtually rolling the Bruins out of the Southwest Conference The two pass plays covered 27 and Colorado's only threat in the first Pittsburg Gnches and stayed in the fight on the face. strength of long touchdown run half carried to Missouri's 12 where the Tiger forwards stiffed and took over with 30 seconds left. and Apparently Baylor's loss of three backs by Gordon Duvall Ernie Merk.

Tie For Loop Title EMPORIA, W. 49 yards. Douglases a senior. Holy Cross Takes First Loss, 49-9 'Missouri Colorado key linemen last week for training rules infractions had little to do First Downs 15 Rushing yardage 182 Pittsburg State College gained at with the beating they took from the bruising Frpgs before 34.000. least a tie for the Central con Wichita University Tops 21-7 HOUSTON, TEX.

Wichita Texas Christian itself started the WORCESTER, Passing yardage 101 Passes attempted 21 Passes completed 9 ference football championship Saturday by defeating" Empora State game with two first line guards Aroused Syracuse crushed pre 'V 'out of the lineup. viously unbeaten Holy Cross 49-9 16 167, '128 15 1 4 39 6 25 0 0-20 0 13-12 It Was just too much Swink and PittBburg lias now won four with Saturday as a football phenom University scored once in each of the final two periods here Saturday night to break a half-time t'e Passes Intercepted by 1 Punts 6 Punting Average 38.2 Fumbles lost 1 his football pals for Baylor. named Jimmy Brown fired a de-vasting ground attack, Swink set an all-time scoring record for one season for "TCU Stunned by an early Holy Cross and defeat Houston, 21-7. It was the Cougars' first Missouri Valley Conference loss. 'when his fourth period 9-yard Yards penalized 85 Missouri 7 13 Colorado 0 0 score, the Orangemen nailed down out a defeat.

Emporia State has lost four in league competition and seven during tho season. The. lone TD came with 12 seconds left in the third quarter when Gena Wayenberg went 35 yards around' end. Bill Samuels kicked the' extra point. gallop for a touchdown brought their sixth, straight triumph in this series with three touchdowm in Missouri scoring Touchdowns: Inn lolal for the season to 81 points than Cy Lelaud's 79 in ') 1929.1 Hunter 2 (1, -sneak; 1, sneak); the second period.

In Scoreless Tie CINCINNATI W-The University of Cincinnati's penalty- Though his scoring was limited Rice (3, plunge). Conversions, Roll 2. to three conversions; Brown set Emporia State threatened twice, getting to Pittsburg's five -yard up the first score with a 22 yard Colorado scoring Touchdowns: i Del Shofner ran 56 yards for Baylor's lone touchdown early in the first period. OLD McDONALD HAD A FARM and this is one McDonald that probably wished he were down on It as two Kansas State gridders apply a real clincher. Dick Allen (44) grabs a foot and Bill Dndsey (78) takes the head as Tom McDonald, Sooner whiz, goes down after a 7-yard advance.

Bill Carrington (34), Doug Roether (30) and George Laddish (83) move in to give moral support. -Sooners in the back-ground are Carl Dodd (22) -and Don Stiller (89). -(Mercuiy photo-X damaged Bearcats and the University of Detroit fought to a 0-0 in the first quarter, and to run and the third with a 55 yard Clarke (27, pass from Stransky); thf third stanza- football tie here Saturday, punt runback to the -Crusader 17, llhr (13, pass froni Jcniins),.