Marquette at Tulsa

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 24, 1951, page 64

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  Marquette and Tulsa Sever Grid Relations | MILWAUKEE, Oct. 24.-Mar. quette and Tulsa agreed today te sever their short athletic relation ship Immediately. | c. M. Jennings. Marquette ath- Iletic director, said he had had “a long talk” by telephone this morn. ing with DR.. George D. Small Tulsa’s co-ordinator of athletics and that both had agreed il would be in the best interests o1 all concerned” if next years re. turn football game here was can celed. / The action was taken with re. gret by both Schools” Jenning. said. adding that his conversation with DR.. Small was “amiable anc without bitterness” ! The squabble started Monday night when Marquette Coach Lisle Blackburn charged that Tulsa had been guilty of “flagrantly illegal tactics” in it’s 27–⁠21 victory over Marquette last Saturday night at Tulsa. The game was the first athletic competition in history between the schools.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 25, 1951, page 6

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  Two Universities Break Relations MILWAUKEE, Oct 25 = R = A coach’s charges of “flagrantly illegal tactics” in last Saturdays Mar quette-Tulsa football game resulted yesterday in cancellation of ath- letic relations between the two uni versailles. The accusations that caused the cancellation of a return game scheduled here next Nov. 16 were far from ainiable. Marquette Coach Lisle Blackburn declared Monday night that movies of the game showed that a Marquette back had been clipped without penalty and that i’ve couldn’t pass until the last quarter because our ends were wrestled to the ground” Tulsa won in the schools first athletic competition, 27–⁠21.

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Tulsa leads 2–⁠1 in three meetings, counting the two since this game.