Oklahoma vs. Texas

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  Evening star, October 14, 1941, page 39

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  Oklahoma Sophs Only To Use A Plays, Too Puzz|ing 10 Vets OId-Timers Are So Used To Power Football They Cont Employ Deception NORMAN, Okla, Oct. 14.-On the theory that old dogs are reluctant to master new tricks, Coach Dewey LuSter of Oklahoma is taking the A formation away from his regulars and leaving that hocus- -pokus TO the brash pups on the second team. The Sooner coach arrived at that conclusion in great anguish of spirit while his football team was being run through the Texas mangler at Dallas last Saturday, 40 to 7. AS Texas was grinding Okla homa’s new A formation-as COM pounded by the veterans--into grade A mincemeat, the sophomores cavorted gaily out there in all that carnage, using its deception to drive goalward. ---- They banged so loudly at the goal the game was not yet the wild runaway it became later-that Texas regulars were rushed back in to shoe them off So from here on Big Six and other foes may expect the usual power plays from the first teams single wingback and nobody knows what off the A from the sophomore understudies. Juniors and seniors. versed in the power offense that Oklahoma used in the past, will be packed into the first eleven, Luster said, and will not be mixed into the sophomores, who take to magic like SO many wizards. These young kids “like that A formation-they like deception, and they showed me that it would work. But the older boys have been playing of single wingback for so long it’s hard for them to change. That’s the reason I can’t mix ‘em up” The A (for the formation of those who can’t keep up with this era of alphabetical formations) Is an unbalanced line to the right, the back field shifted to the left, with back in motion formatio T fashion.

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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 86 since this game.