Iowa State at Oklahoma

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  The Nome nugget, October 31, 1949, page 7

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  FOOTBALL ‘DJ T AiS <AoocNAt bCNA Noo’ It’s no longer sufficient to say those gridiron gargantuas-Notre Dame, Army and Oklahoma–Won again. The pertinent point is: by how much? As if jealously watching the scoreboard in their drive for na- tional honors, these three top ranking elevens are gorging them selves on touchdoWnS and punch ing the modern record for scoring. Army’s Black Knights of the Hudson, second to Notre Dame in the current standings, are setting the point-production pace among the leaders with a total of 267 in six games, an average of ALA per Saturday. The Fighing Irish have regis tered l97 in five games, an aver age of 39 plus. while the third ranked Sooners have 229 in six games, a bit over 38 for each af- ternoon’s sport. All three of the titans won 1 games Saturday by robust mar gins N.Otre Dame crushed Navy, 400, at Baltimore. Army over Whelmed Virginia Military, 4O-l4 . Oklahoma smashed Iowa State 34–⁠7. These are developments of the last October weekend: l. Pennsylvania, ninth ranked nationally, was tumbled from the unbeaten ranks by Pittsburgh, which scored a last minute safety to prevail, 22–⁠21. ?. Perfect records were main tained by II other major teams Notre Dame, Army Oklahoma, California, Cornell, Baylor, Bos- ton U., Virginia, Fordham, Wyo- ming, and College of the Pacific. | 3. Bowl hopes rocketed for Cal | ifornia, Baylor, Pitt and Boston University. ! 4. Bowl hopes were shattered

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  Evening star, October 30, 1949, page 46

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  THE SUNDAY STAR Washington, D C. B-5 Oklahoma Swamps Iowa State, 34.7, For,16fh in Row NORMAN, Okla, Oct. % Oklahoma wasted a quarter settling down, then ran over Iowa State, 34–⁠7. here today before a Homecoming football crowd Of 39, 900. The victory put Oklahoma into a frst place tie with Missouri In the Big Seven Conference and extended its streak of triumphs to 16 straight. Fumbles plagued Oklahoma the first quarter but the Sooners scored 20 points in the second period while Iowa State was stopped cold. Thinly manned with reserves, Iowa State ran down in the sec ond half and Oklahoma Coach Bud Wilkinson used his entire squad. Darrell Royal. who has quarter backed Oklahoma to third place among the Nations football teams, was not used because of a brushed leg received in last weeks Nebraska game. Claude Arnold, Junior quarterback. stepped in to do q fine job of signal calling. Each Of Oklahoma’s five touch downs was scored by 4 different player. George Junior) Thomas picked up his 18th touchdown Of the season to score first for Okla homa. Leon Heath, Buddy Jones, Lindell Pearson and Arnold also scored. Ken Tipps kicked four extras points. ofi:hom. 81: ss:t’ - g 4 So Iowa State scoring: Touchdowns-Doran; Point after touehdown-Ferguson.. Oklahoma scoring: Touchdowns-Heath Jones. Pearson, Arnold. Points after touch down-Tipps

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Oklahoma leads 80–⁠7–⁠2 in 89 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.