Texas vs. Oklahoma

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  Evening star, October 15, 1939, page 36

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  Oklahoma Again Hot On Air and Ground Beating Texas Croin’s Two Long Runs Avert Steer Shutout In 24–⁠12 Contest DALLAS, Tex, Oct. 14.-The clock struck midnight for Texas Gin derella kids today, Oklahoma’s opportunists tumbling over them, “a II, with air and ground sprees that stunned $4,000. The rangy Sooners who rocked Northwestern in last weeks most jolting upset. had everything again today but an antidote for Cowboy Jack Grain, Texas towhead sophomore, who passed them like so many wooden Indians on two in credible runs OF So and II yards for fourth-period touchdowns. Temporarily stunned after seeing one little fellow melt their ITO lead on two sudden thrusts, the Oklahomans rumbled back with the power that makes them one of the Nations standouts and quieted Texas with a 62-yard touchdown march that iced the game with three minutes to play. Oklahoma won its ball game handily-but Grain provided the thrills. Take away Grains two runs and Texas was threatless.

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  The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, October 16, 1939, page 1 (results column)

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  NCW 4OIh, wv 4u-NO3(--k SAOA!~ days grid-irony: It is amazing in these days of radio, telegraph and air mail that no word seemed to have seeped south about Fordham’s foot ball greatness. Alabama was the first to knock the Rams loose from their press clippings, and now Tulane has beaten them from pole to pole, so to speak. A new record for clay pigeon shooting was established Saturday when Harvard scored 81 to victory over the University of Chicago :. Such score seems hard ly fair of fair Harvard. :. Jock Sutherland sat in the press box while Pittsburgh beat a favored Duke team, and he must have felt like Enoch Arden did when he returned home after long absence to find his wife in the arms of an other man. In other words, the Pitt team which was supposed to coll lapse when Sutherland was fired, seems to be doing all right in the hands Of another man. The four-leaf clover crop at West Point must be a bumper one this year, else the Cadets never would have managed a 6–⁠6 tie with Column bia. The most inept team to come from the Point in years was beaten to a fragile for 81 minutes Of the 60, only to tie the score in the last three minutes Of the game with a pass that spanned 81 yards. Aside from that one thrust-which went straight to the heart of Lou Little the Army was as ragged as Coxey’s army. -. Northwestern was hailed as the winder team of the midwest before the season started and 1t is living up to its advance notices. The Gus toners are wondering when 1t will win ball game. NorthweStern’S Bill De Correvont Melted only three yards from scrimmage and that isn’t good gaining, even in a phone booth Not since Sergeant Alvin York le-handedly surrounded trench full Of Germans in the World war has anyone put on such a one-man show as Tommy Harmon did as Michigan defeated Iowa, ~ to 7. ). He was so good in scoring all Of Michigan’s points that even Field ing Yost stopped talking to watch him perform. On the Trail In the far west work on a new Oregon trail, this one leading toward Pacific conference champion ship, was continued as Oregon’s sur prise football package turned back California. It was California; third setback Of the season and prompted Coach Stub Allison to hasten work on his raft. Alabama and Tennessee punched the stuffing out Of their sparring partners and SO will 60 into their game next Saturday indicated and united. Conditions in Oklahoma can’t pos sibly be as bad as John Steinbeck would have us believe in Grapes Of Wrath” when the Okey football team knocks over Northwestern one week. then foollws with a 24–⁠12 job on the best Texas University team in three years. . If the dust bowl boys keep up with this sleight-of-hand work, the Carnegie Institute will be hold ing another investigation. and this time will confine 1t to the southwest. My personal nomination for che eastern Rose Bowl bid, the East Stroudsburg Teachers, rolled another inch closer to Pasadena by utterly routing their traditional rivals, the

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Officially, Texas leads 65–⁠52–⁠5; as played, 62–⁠52–⁠5 in the 119 games on file; the official count covers all 122 meetings, counting the 88 since this game.