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The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 1

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The Miami Heraldi
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Miami, Florida
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y2 jFS lT -jr V'J-i Oklahoma Takes the Merry Out of Maryland i lie le 1 ivn i -P Terrapins Grab 6-0 Lead Then Lose Their Snap By JIMMY BURNS Herald Sport Editor Displaying more speed than any football team ever seen here Oklahoma Sooners Monday galloped away from Mary-land 20 to 6 after spotting the Terps a touchdown in the second quarter of the 22nd Orange Bowl classic The Sooners might lag behind in a match race with Nashua but you never would comince the record crowd of 76561 spectators plus millions of television watchers that there Is a football team which can outrun the Sooners Maryland's Terps tried it but throughout the second half they were falling far behind and only a late pass interception kept the Sooners from driving on to make their victory' een more one-sided Sooner Speed Blinds Terps IT WAS A GLORIOUS comeback for the speed merchants from the west They re-acted like true champions to the challenges of the Atlantic Coast best team and extended records which hate made Oklahoma one of the powers of football This was their 30th consecutive sictory and the ease with which it was scored once the Sooner machine shifted into high gear makes mockery of the claim Oklahoma prospered because of a weak schedule Oklahoma's emphasis on Minding speed ranged from darting into and ont of the huddle to Car! Dodd's 82-yard sprint with an Intercepted pass for the Sooners' final touchdown This rnn along the southern boundary was the most spertacnlag of the day and made a telling impact not only on the fans bat the Terps too It a well earned victory which left one believing that for duration of the Big Seven-Atlantic Coast pact with the Orange Bowl you might as well become reconciled to Oklaboma winning every other year The Sooners accented speed not only in moving the ball but also in their defensive efforts Their pursuit was amazing and the best individual example kept Ed Vereb from going all of the way after he had run 65 yards Vereb a dangerous runner had won the foot race with all of the pursuing Sooners except Jay O'Neal second-string quarterback O'Neal pounded along and got close enough to knock Ed out of bounds at Oklahoma's 10-yard line Vereb had broken through his right tackle cut across field and sped along the southern boundary 'i iW'T -IV 1 W(I f-i V' t( A i wAu JX -t- mmMdf uipilll)l fcj ai? jv -e icV? Stiff Photo by John Wilthr 77 a w'T Screaming Victory for University of Oklahoma Players Surrounding Their Coaches Bud Wilkinson Right and Gomer Jones tlow the Oklahoma 1 heory If orks It at Boivl RAnJ OKLAHOMA stuck to its regular season pattern of the ball as shown by the fact it got off 64 rushing plays against Maryland's 47 The theory is the Sooners TCV controlling can beat superior teams by retaining the ball 10 minutes more Maryland was not better than Oklahoma Monday as the eye-witnesses will cheerfully' verify The Terps were superior in the first half but the payoff is on the full 60 minutes The Sooners amassed 14 first downs to seven and their Torn to Page 2-A Col 7 NS'jWw' 'J'-r On Shirtsleeve Day By JEANNE BELLAMY Herild SUff Wrlt-r hat a day! What a game! What a show All three dazzled the biggest crowd ever assembled in the Orange Bowl Monday Sunlight blazed on the 76361 fans They roared their delight vw ay vv when the Oklahoman team edged ahead of Maryland on the way to victory They gasped as fluttered down from the edge of the upper deck The snowflakes were tiny white feathers Ral snow wouldn't have lasted one second in the summery air Neither would real i which was mimicked in the half-time spectacle Snowy-looking floats with ice blue touches moved onto vr't tJif A4 'MrTr 4 Things You Want To Know Ollier Boivl Scores ROSE: Michigan 17 UCLA 14 SUGAR: Georgia Tech 7 Pittsburgh 0 COTTON: Mississippi 14 Texas Christiah 13 SUN: Wyoming 21 Texas Tech 14 MAILAWAY THIS SOUVENIR Edition Only 10 cents postage paid On sale at Herald Circulation Office Miami Ave and SW 2nd St and at street stations all day BIG CLASSIFIED SECTION in Section 17-Page Sports Section Sec OTHER ORANGE BOWL STORIES: An Oklahoman Looks at Miami Page 2A A Miamian (Lawrence Thompson) Looks at Oklahomans Page 17C Stephen Trumbull on the VIPs Page IB VIP Pictures 7E Oklahoma and Maryland State News 2A OB Finale Tonight 16A Monroney Talks Politics 9A Ernie Seiler Half-Time Producer 11B 14 Full Pages of Pictures PAGES IB 8B 7B 3C 7C IE 2E 3E 4E 5E 6E 7E 20 IF Plus Dozens ot Other Pictures Throughout 102 Pages the field along with six bands all playing Old Man Winter himself was there breathing frost from the front of the biggest float It stopped near the east goal posts Four smallpi floats formed a hollow square One carried an ice-skater The second brought a pretty girl on a sied The third showed a toboggan and the fourth had a skier Four tiny floats grouped together at the center of the field Each carried two shapely ice-skaters beside a snow man with a red tie and red gloves From caves atop the four medium-sized floats came the four Oiange Bowl princesses one at a time Then the tall silvery peak behind Old Man Winter parted Orange Bowl Queen Lnn Biown emerged In glistening white with a diamond like crown Three make-believe huskies pulled a sied around the side- lines The driver tossed souvenirs to lucky spectators As the massed bands played the the four- I snowmen and their eight skat- ers on circling plat- forms The band marched off to i the tune of Wonder- Just then orange bios- tom perfume a familiar scent in the 24-year-old show Turn to Page 2-A Col 6 Two Days of Sun Our Lucky Fale More sunny ami warm weather Is in store for Greater Miami today and Wednesday with a high reading of 74 to 77 expected this afternoon Mondavg highest temperature was 75 recorded at 3 pm Gpntle to moderate easterly winds will presail today the eather bureau sa id jAs 'i vw i Chuckle Two men met on the street and one asked the other for a cigarette 'I thought you had quit the friend said just In the first said the man 'Te quit buying Arm Harris 6A Horoscope 11D Jumble 9D Kofoed 11D 6A Movie Table 5D Pegler 11D Pennekamp A Radio-TV 10D Sports MIC Weather 2A Womens 7-1 6E Amuse 4-6D Bell 19A Bourke 4D Burns 1C Bus Rev 11B Classified 4-15F Comics 91 ID Crosby 10D Corson 10C Crane 9D Crossword 9D Deaths 11-B Editorial 6A Goren 9D HOLLYWOOD KENNEL CLUB offers the finest In dog racing Post: 915 Just North of Gulf-stream Park on US 1 Deluxe Clubhouse and free parklng-Adv Ft Lauderdale Transfer South Finest House Movers and Heavy Haulers Phone Ft Lauderdale JA 2-1434 SAVINGS deposits to Jan 10 earn from Jan Mercantile Na-tional Bank of Miami Beach Adv1 I Hersld 01 sff Photo hr BUI Banders Legs of a Sooner Player Frame Bob Burris Who Was Hurt in Final Quarter -V U-.

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