Boston College at Oklahoma

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  Evening star, October 1, 1950, page 47

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  Oklahoma Defeats Boston College, $50 NORMAN, Okla, Sept. 3d. Coach Bud Wilkinson trotted out his Oklahoma football team for its first showing of the season today and the Sugar Bowl champions walloped Boston College, $50, to run their victory string to % straight games. Although they took command al the outset and never were serious ~ threatened, the Sooners lacked the explosive power of their 1949 predecessors who ranked second only to Notre Dame in the Asso~ ciated Press national poll. But they satisfied $4,000 partisan fans by exhibiting couple Of promising holdover halfbacks In Buddy Jones and Tommy Gray and line that refused to give ground except in inconsequcntial chunks. Oklahoma marched So and Al yards for touchdowns in the first and second periods, then struck through the air for a third counter before calling it a day by CASH ing in on a Boston tumble in the third period. ~ For Coach Denny Myers, it was only the second shutout N his 10 years at Boston College. The first came last year when Oklahoma trlumphed 46–⁠0 in the season opener at Boston.

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Oklahoma leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings.