The Norman Transcript from Norman, Oklahoma • 8

I OU Favored by 7 Points as Bowl Time Nears 1 ago when the Big Bed toppled Seven and Atlantic Coast confer-set an amasing record of 90 vie- Ten member of that Maryland perfection of play and mental bo the deciding weapon Kansas State 40-7 iences one of tl)o best "net- tones against only seven defeats team including the AU-Amenea conditioning Probable Uneupe The duel between the mammoth I in bowl history tor many! and three tie mark is center Bob Pellegrini I After seeing the two squads ia i Mob Pellegrini and Sooner pivot Jerry reasons: 96-11-9 ia one year at North Caro I Too tinned From Faff One) and Bill Walker to oin it up Irani Quarterback Frank Tamburello better known at will deal behind that line to ouch cap ahle runner as halfback kid Vereb to well regarded that be waa the Washington Redskins' initial choirein the pm draft Tatum Is expected to match Wfl-1 His sprints and those of Robert kin son suhxtitue for substitute He Burris Billy Pricer and Clendon may have the personnel to do it Thomas are the staplea of OU's in a reserve unit in which tackle basic offensive diet Kd limning center Gene Akle Oklahoma ia proud too of a ton and quarterback Lynn Beighto! I line whick hasn't yielded a touch-stand out I down sinco Oct 29 or five gamei Oklahoma has gives cuuidcrahlt I attention to the patting game in practice But it nt on the ground where the Big Red has excelled and it ia there that it likely will attack No team has been able to bar- sunns IK sun il lt sum izisi L3 Dylan hlMrlnl 22X1 Si) Dun UM nr Sindiukr inn SI DrUit an Tutwcu 1 ill) LH 1m DM) nil Htnly UM) FB Hamilton ilTSt Team avenue Oklahoma 1ST: lUnr-land 200 Lma amis Oklahoma 2US Marylaoa Z1S Tack! la lacal amain Oklahoma 2WT Harr lank Jl- Backlit! reraa Oklahoma ISO Maiylaa 12 Olficiah Helenas John WsMnrf HltMsni and Clary ftei isdis Herman Rohric Htbraskai back juds Hava: head Unrnmaa Me-Cess) timer Vuls Htbraskai -jp and hungry for revenge Pellegrini says: "We haven't forgotten what happened two years ago We come down here to lose" The coaches old friends and for mer associates at Oklahoma followed radically different methods of getting their teams ready Tatum called for scrimmages so rough that at the end of one session he commented that hia weary players "had to finish up on blood and Wilkinson ordered no head-knocking He concentrated on acton many experts were m- 111 aLrr CM cuned to agree with Tamms anal- tubs sswji Tubbs could feature the rough atuff i 1 It matche the country's only the middle The Vereb-McDonald major aU-vktorioua team Fur-match also will be closely watch I thermore the teams buast the nets completely Tommy McDonald cd longest current winning streaks in the Junior whix who has scored in Most experts thought Oklahoma's I college football Oklahoma has one at Oklahoma and nine at Maryland 2 Even the "grudge fight element will be present For two long years Maryland has looker forward to its chance to avenge the embarrassing 7-0 defeat by Oklahoma to the 1954 Orange Bowl game That shutout first to five years spoiled a previously perfect season to which Maryland had won the national ysis that both teams play per-1 feet football and make no mistake the speed of Tommy McDonald could make the difference" The Oklahoma All-America halfback has scored 16 touchdowns during the season and averaged 8J yards rushing That additional sti that McDonald gets over everyone else oa the field might Bell lies-Harris 1 1ST McDonald 'ISSI Earn 13 Pncer UM I a peed Wilkinson admits this is the fastest of the many great teams he has will be the deciding factor overriding a possible psychological edge held by Maryland The game a happy result of the Orange Bowl pact with the Big 29 straight and has scored in 105 consecutive games national recora Maryland has won 15 in a row 2 The rival coaches are the most successful active members of their clan ia the country In nine i year at Oklahoma Wilkinson has crown Bud Is Cautious As Team Begins Pre-Game Wait 6 Tho Norman (Okla) Transcript Sunday January 1 1956 Jerry Mageefs The ranscribe READY FOR Waiting for a bus to take them to a ihort afternoon workout in Miami Friday are these three members of the Oklahoma Orange Bowl team (from left) Jim Heard Cleveland back Benton Ladd Oklahoma City tackle and Kenneth Hallum Seminole guard (AP Wirephoto) Hardy's Party Bud Tatum Offer Study In Contrasts Kentuckian Lifts Gray Past Yankees 20-19 MIAMI Fla Oklahoma had nothing left to do but wait here after the Sooners concluded the physieal phase of their Orange Bowl football practice with a light morning drill Switching its practice site for the third straight day the Big Red went back to where it started Miami University at Coral Gables for its final rehearsal for its Jan 2 clash with Maryland Coach Bud Wilkinson wasn't sure after the session that his team is ready for the heavyweights from the Atlantic Coast Conference 'More Determined to 1954 hard to tell whether practiced too much or tou little for a game like this Bud said But Wilkinson was sure that his squad is not as mentally sound as the team he guided to a 7-0 victory over the Terrapins here two years not yet anyhow "That team waa more deter mined than this he said "We may get that way between now and Monday though" Bud ratea this Maryland team superior to the Terpa' National champions 1953 to every respect bigger stronger and rougher" he judged Two Minor Injuries If two players who are nursing minor injuries respond to treatment as trainer Kenneth Rawlin-son hopes they will the Sooner will go into the holiday classic in peak condition Alternate-team quarterback Jay ia nursing a sprained ankle but the injured member has oeen bathed to ice and Rawlinson aid O'Neal should be ready In suffering the minor hurt became the second member of hia elan to be injured since the Big Red set up camp here Hia older brother Pat a former quarterback wto is now an assistant coach sprained an ankle early to the week while propping up a blocking dummy Burris' Knee Balked Halfback Robert Burris' knee was given medical attention again Saturday but the injury slow the Musnogen strongboy Rawlinson indicated about like we always are" Rawlinson estimated always got somebody ailing" Center Jerry knee has mended but he has come down with what Rawlinson called pretty heavy He will go against the Terps too The third team worked out alone Saturday afternoon stressing defense real bard tar only 44 men to practice" Wilkinson explained they needed some work on defense" Others Attend Mcception The rest at the Sooners dolled up Saturday afternoon to attend a 4 pm reception for Big Seven Conference athletic directors and faculty representatives Then they were bundled off to downtown Miami to watch the glittering Xing Orange Jamboree parade Some 30000 watched the event which was nationally telecast Miami's usual Orange Bowl luck held under a full moan HE MAY Eddie Crowder and Norman McNabb (left to right) board a plane to Miami for Oklahoma's Orange Bowl meeting with Maryland Jan 2 Rumor has it that Crowder will be the new backfield coach if Pete Elliott takes the head coaching job at Ne- braska McNabb is an OU freshman coach Only Rumor So Far But Coaching OU Backs Would Please Crowder 1 read in the newspapers" when asked to confirm or deny reports that he will accept the head coaching position at Nebraska The Sooner had an enemy to their midst at their dinner-dance here but a very attractive one She waa film star Gloria Delfaven who entertained An art student at Miami University Gloria will be rooting for the Terrapins on Jan 2 ft ft ft Thin ia the second Orange Bowl trip for five Sooner and all five are to the starting lineup end Joe Mobra tackle Cal Wood-worth guards Bo Bolingrr and Cecil Morris and halfback Robert Burris tit it if OU coaches wore troubled frowns on the Tuesday following their arrival here the Maryland team can't be held solely accountable Their wives were taken on a shopping excursion to ultra-ultra Lincoln Road The Terrapins and Nashua hava one thing in common: they drink the same kind of water A local bottling firm dispenses Mountain Valley Mineral Water the same kind that the Terpa brought along When the footballer exhausted their supply they sought more But they get it Nashua had consumed it all Miami traffic ia unpredictable The Sooaers one day needed an hour and a half to go from Ml ami Beach to Coral Gables only 45 minutes to return What perplexes Wilkinson is that no two bus drivers follow the same route ft fte ft Under "Cocktail Lounges" there are 99 names to the Miami telephone book OU aide Ted Youngling respects Maryland'! size "I don't intend to go near that field Jan 2" Youngling professes "1 don't want one of those giants after University of Miami Coach Andy Gustafson and several of his assistants have watched the Sooner drill So hai ex-OU star Darrell Royal Mississippi State's coach who is here with Frank (pop) Ivy another former Sooner both aa a coach and a player "They're not too big but they're fine-looking Gustafson remarked The Sooners are more of mar- ryin' kind than the Terrapins Eight OU players and 10 Terpa brought their help mates along but there are 61 on tha Maryland roster only 44 on tha Big Red list The Ruf-Nek Rocket has come to temporary grief Bnt rival Marylanders had nothing to do with it Seems that Miamis warm climate didn't agree with lizzie and she began to cough and wheeze more than nanal Her caretakers begia tinkering around and confounded the situation by dropping a wrench Into her transmission The Miami Fire Department (strictly impartial) hauled the Rocket in fished out the wrench and soon had her back in operation The Sooners may attend Sunday services in Tha Little Church by the Sea a nondenominational church in Miami Beach Actually isn't by the sea at all but by Bis-cayne Bay Eddie Crowder former All-American quarterback at OU would not confirm rumors here Saturday that he would be new back-field coach if Pete Elliott goes to Nebraska as expected Crowder left Norman Saturday MIAMI Fla In Washington they joke about the humidity In Los Angeles they Joke about the traffic In Omaha they Juke about the scent from the stockyards But in Miami Beach they Joke about money The standard gag is about the thug who accosted a resident of Miami Beach thrust a gun at him and said "quick give me your brains or your the Floridian replied "I nave to have any sense to live here but I live here without money" Then tin-re was the visitor who was watching children frolic in the surf behind the Bal Harbour Hotel the headquarters of the Oklahoma football team "Gee" he laid "This la wonderful for these kids But how can they afford Another Sooner waa walking through the Bal Harbour's pool area where the hotel's residents were sunning themselves "Do you know what thin he asked waving around the place "Just ft ft Because of his writing ability and his insight into she game Dick Cullum of Minneapolis is regarded as one of the nation's foremost football writers Cullum didn't sec Oklahoma play this season but he has been watching the Sooner in practice "I hke their Cullum says intelligence sticks out nil over them" ft Oklahomans "willing to bet anything from oil wells to inkwells" and giving 13 1-2 points invaded Maryland's camp at the Flamingo Hotel here the other night Assistant Coach Warren Giese laid When Bud Wilkinses waa apprised of the raid he said "it must have been Maryland people masquerading a Oklahomans" The incident of course wss reported to the Terrapin players as the psychological warfare between the two rivals wagea hid Line Coach Comer Jones' formula for outbattling the ponderous Maryland forwards: "Beat 'em to the ft -fr Sr Orange peels: Both Bud Wilkinson and Jim Tatum may be minus capable assistants a 'ear from if Tatum electa to remain at Maiyland rather than move on to hia alma mater North Carolina that ia Wilkinson may lose Pete EUintt who has been offered the head job at Nebraska and will answer with a yea or nay after the Orange Fowl game And Tatum may be deprived of his personable first lieutenant Warren Giese (pronounced geese-aye An aide to Tatum since 1948 Giese is mulling a job offer from South Carolina Freni the way the talk went at Maryland's only open practice he'll lake it Vi ft The thinking to Miami la that Tatum will move oa if he ran become athlrtir director as wed as head coach of football But the Tar Heels open against OU in '56 and that rould cause Sunny James to give the matter a little extra thought Borrowing a line from the late Will Rogers OU assistant Pete Elliott said "AH I know is what MONTGOMERY Ala Dee SI (41 brilliant pissing quarterback Bob Hardy led tha Southern college all-stars to a thrilling 26-19 gridiron victory over a Northern invader to the annual Blue-Gray game today Hardy with All-America end Howard Schnellenberger on the receiving end much of the time completed ll of 22 passes tor 129 yards He scored one touchdown and passed 28 yards to Schnellenberger for another A crowd of 19000 watched the intersections! clash to crisp dear weather The Kentucky passing star outgunned Jim Haluska in spectacular aerial duel that put the South out in front 13-0 early in the game and then gave the Yankees a later edge 19-13 Haluska threw 17 passes and completed 7 fur 126 yards Mississippi State halfback Art Davis although hobbled by a leg MIAMI The Ruf-Nek Rocket rattling down Biscayne Boulevard amidst a convoy of Cadillacs presents no more of a contrast here than the one which labeing offered at Miami Stadium and Coral Gables where the coaches of Maryland and Oklahoma respectively are putting their football teams through practice paces In speech in manner to dress to every conceivable way Jim Tatum and Bud Wilkinson differ Tatum mince Us words to say the least in handling his champions of the east In the only open practice which he has held he passed on advice with an emphasis which is frowned on in church circlet Wilkinson never raises his voice in Norman and ho here The word he said mors than any other today was Bud is scarcely noticeable among his players in his usual practice toga: a white tee shirt saying gray pants and football shoes But Tatum homes more Floridian attire He wore a maroon tee shirt a red hat and gray flannel shorts and hia spidery underpinnings set him off from his heavylegged athletes Touchdown Club Rates OU No 1 injury made repeated dents to the nigged Blue line and toterceptd two passes The Rebels ran up a 13-0 lead before the Yanks managed to core Hardy plunged over from the 3 in the opening quarts' after tackle Jack Maultaby of North Carolina blocked a Blue punt on the Yankee 26 Hardy tossed a touchdown pass Schnellenberger good for 28 yards in the second period and then added a conversion Wolverine Scores Halfback Lou Baldacci of Michigan marked up the Blues' first score in the same period with a 2-yard plunge Haluska threw a 48-yard fourth dowi pass to the third period that sent Leonard Zyzda over for a touchdown and evened the score after Mike Falls of Minnesota converted Haluska' passes set up another Yankee score in the fourth quarter Jerry Harkrader of Ohio State took the ball over from the 2 With time growing short Davis got loose for a 17-yard run that put the Grays to sewing position Kenneth Keller of North Carolina scored from the 2 and Vince Gonzales of LSU added the extra point Rebels Widen Margin The game was devoid of penalties until tha fourth period when the South waa charge! with two infractions and tha Blues me The victory gave the Rebels a 12-5 edge in the Blue-Gray series Last year's gam went to tho Yanks 14-7 Blue 0 0 7 0-19 Gray 6 7 0 7-20 Blue scoring Baldacci of Michigan (2 plunge) Zya-da of Purdue (48 pass from Hat ueka) Harkrader of Ohio State (2 plunge) Conversions: Falls of Minnesota Gray scoring touchdowns: Hardy of Kentucky (2 plunge) Schnell-enherger of Kentucky (27 pass from Hardy) Keller of North Carolina (2 plunge) Conversions: Hardy Gonzales of LSU Sullivan Trophy Goes to Dillard NEW YORK Dee 31 (4)-Har-rison Dillard Olympic sprint champion in 1948 and hurdling king to 1952 today was named winner of the James Sullivan memorial trophy for 1955 as the outstanding amateur athlete Dillard received 173 first place votes on the 658 ballots by a nationwide tribunal at sports authorities He was the 16th track man to win the award in 26 competitions since 1939 The only man to break domination in the last six years was Major Sammy Lee the Olympic diving champion who won in 1953 Mrs Patricia Keller McCormick of the Los Angeles Athletic Club was a close runner-up for the third straight year She won the Olympic springboard and platform diving titles in '52 and picked up 144 first place votes Howard (Hopalong) Cassady Ohio All-America football star was third with 154 firsts aud 1958 points The award la presented annually by the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States to "the amateur athlete who by performance example and good influence did moat to advance tha cause of good sportsmanship during the Grid Scores GATOR BOWL Vanderbilt 25 Auburn 13 BLUE-GRAY South 20 North 19 SHRINE ALL STAR East 29 West SALAD BOWL Border Conference All-Stars 13 Skyline Conference All-Stars 10 Quail Hunters Need New License Tuesday OKLAHOMA CITY Dec 31 UP) Quail hunting will be permitted in Oklahoma Monday Jan 2 but hunters must have 1958 licensei the state Game and Fish Commission said today Quail hunting will not bo permitted tomorrow The commission also advised the season on squirrels closed on the last flight to Miami He will attend the Orange Bowl it Jan 2 between Oklahoma ind Maryland 1 been told that I am being considered for the job" Crowder said "In fact I understand that it been announced whether or not Pete is leaving Oklahoma If Pete goes to Nebraska and I am offered the job I would be very Crowder said he would not be discharged from the Army until Sept 1 next year unless he gets an early release He served as an assistant coach under Earl Blaik at West Point last falL Dickson to Running The rumor thst he was being considered started when Lew Johnson sports editor of the Lawton Constitution wrote that Crowder would be the Sooners' backfield e-'sch next year It is common belief that Elliott will take tha head coaching Job at Nebraska although no official announcement to that effect has here made Earlier rumors said that George Dickson a former member of the Notre Dame coaching staff would succeed Elliott Sooner Coach Bud Wilkinson has left little doubt in the past of hir opinion of Crowder He once said "Eddie Crowder is the finest football player and gentleman I have ever Crowder was a student at Oklahoma in 1953 while completing his degree to geology at OU Guided Dream Backfield Crowder who ia from Muskogee was co-captain of the 1952 Sooner team which was called at that time the best offensive team in football history The team averaged 407 points per game The former All-America quarterbacked the 52 "Phantom (4 Billy Vessels Buck Me-Phail and Buddy Leake which was considered the best backfield to the nation that year AU the backs but Leake were named to AU-America teams and Vessels won the Heisman Trophy Crowder was best known at Oklahoma for hit baU handling sportsmanship and leadership However in the 1951 Colorado game at Norman he threw four touchdown passes in the first 17 minutes 19 believed to be a feat never before achieved to college grid history Twire All-Big Seven He waa named on tha Central Press AU-American team to his senior year and made the AU-Big Seven team two year Crowder and Tom Catlin two-tim Sooner All-America center were co-cap? tains for the West to the 1952 Shrine game They were also co-captaina 'fur OU that year WASHINGTON Dee 31 III The Touchdown Club of Washington today chose Oklahoma top ranking team to the 1955 Associated Press poll as the "outstanding college football team of the year Tha TUuchdown Club trophy will be presented to Bo Bolinger co-captain of tho Oklahoma team at the annual wards banquet Jan 7 Lt Mend Mavraides of Bolling Air Force Base was named the outstanding service player of the year and he too will be given a trophy at tho banquet Basketball Layoff Will End Tuesday Five area baaketball teams will resume play after the holiday layoff with games Tuesday night Dibble leader to the Canadian Valley Conference win invade Mustang in a non-league clash The Demons have beaten Mustang once this season Noble will host a Noble alumni team and Moore wiU journey to Crooked Oak to fill out the slate Bowl Binge Will Reach Climax With Big Four on Monday 4 Sooner State Umpires Advance TULSA Okla rc 31 IT Four Sooner State League umpires have been sold to bast-ball loops of higher classification it was announced today George Barr president of the Class 1) Sooner State League aaid Harry Brown and William Gentry were sold to the Finneer League Lee Hanning to the Big State loop and A Fenton to the Southwest League He also said a Sooner State League meeting has been called for Jan at McAlesler where dub owners will decide on a 129 or a 140-game schedule and vote on a revamping of the league By WILL GRIMSLEY The Associated Press The annual New Year's hangover hits college football tomor-row with a bowl binge matching eight of the nation's top teams in a star-studded climax to the 1955 season A croud of nearly 409909 wiU fork out some 62119000 to watch major postseason battles in Miami New Orleans Dallas and Paa-gdena Calif all televised and a trio 4 minor shows in sunshine belt From the standpoint of team rankings the No 1 conflict takes place at Miami in the Orange Bowl where Oklahoma's national cham It's hard to pick against Tech winner of eight of its ten bowl games since 1929 but Pitt's incentive has been jabbed by the hullabaloo over Grier the first Negro ever to play in the Sugar BowL Georgia governor Marvin Griffin at first opposed the match Griffin later relented but said he would act machinery in motion to thwart future unsegregated games for Georgia schools in the South In other bowl games Monday Texas Tech plays Wyoming in the Sun Bowl at El Paso Tex Juniata (Pa) meets Missouri Valley in the Tangerine Bowl at Orlando Fla and Prairie View takes on Tennessee A ft I in the Prairie View Bowl at Houston Tex pions building on a 29-gam winning streak play unbeaten untied Maryland No 3 in the Associated Press poll The Rose Bowl at Pasadena oldest and biggest of the New Year's fixtures matches second-ranked Michigan State and UCLA's Pacific Coast titlists No 4 in a game which should generate sparks The lineup to the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans is Georgia Tech No 7 against Pittsburgh No 11 with tha issue of Titt'a Negro fullback Hobby Brier still a ticklish situation fur aU concerned The Cotton Bowl at Dallas pits two proud conference champions Texas Chris who are still smarting under their 7-9 loss in the same bowl two yean ago The game ia expected to be a 76062 sellout with gate receipts of $515000 A larger crowd 100000 but slightly less money 1500000 is id the offing at Pasadena AU-America Earl Morrell powers the swift-striking and versatile Michigan State offense which ia given a seven point edge over UCLA beaten by Michigan State to the Rose Bowl to 1954 UCLA a single wing powerhouse banks on a stubborn defense anchored by an An-America guard James Brown Another All-America perform er is Jim Swink Texas Christian's brilliant climax runner who is figured the possible difference in the Cotton Bowl game Lengthening odd have made the Horned Frogs a 7 point favorite in a game expected to lure 75504 and a gate of 6475000 Both teams have exceptional speed hut TCU Is heavier and it has Swink A full stadium of paying some $500000 is anticipated ft the Sugar Bowl where Georgia Tech a howl regular la rated a slim edge over Pittsburgh a big tough team which had an up-and-down season Odds which previously favored Tech by 13 took a mysterious plunge to 6 at tha weekend tian of Uic Southwest No nationally and Mississippi of tha Southeastern No 19 Kickoff time for the three Deep South attractions is 1 pm (CST) with Rose Bowl game starting three hours later 4 pm NBC will televise the Cotton Bowl then shift to Pasadena for the Bose CBS is projecting the Orange Bowl on the nation's screens while the Sugar Bowl will he presented by ABC At Miami the presence of Tommy McDonald speedy 179-pound halfback to the Oklahoma lineup ia one of the reasons tha Sooners have been established a seven-point favorite over Uw Terrapins I I 1.