Oklahoma at Iowa State

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  Evening star, November 2, 1952, page 70

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  Sooners Pour Il On Behind CroWder and Solid Defense Line AMES, Iowa. Nov. 1.-Oklahoma, rated No. 3 in the Nation. rushed along at its customary dazzling pace today in a 41–⁠0 VIC tory over Iowa State. Oklahoma, cunning for it’s sew enth straight Big Seven Confer ence championship, sent the under-manned Cyclones to their fifth conference defeat with a bewildering offense led by Quarterback Eddie Crowder and a solid defense that held Iowa State to 119 yards. 1t was the 33d conference game in which Oklahoma has not been defeated. There are two ties in the string. Oklahoma, striking with equal effectiveness from far out or close in, started its scoring with a So yard squirt by Billy Vessels through the Iowa State middle. The trap play got its inception on a beau tiful fake by Crowder. The Sooners picked up two more touchdownS for a 21-to-0 lead in the first quarter to settle the issue. Iowa State suffered a severe jolt in the first quarter when Quarter back Dick Mann, the top passer, broke his left leg in a pileup in volving Tom Catlin, who had in tercepted a Mann pass on the Iowa State “a. Oklahoma got another touch down in the second quarter and added two more in the third. Buddy Leake. No. l halfback who has a bad ankle, did only CONVEX sion duty for Oklahoma. He totaled four and sent the Oklahoma rec ord to 35 straight before missing on the fourth touchdown. 3EIshsms OKLA sp.,. ---------2d5 8 Z g. “a J Oklahoma scoring: Touchdowns. McPhail (2). Green, Vessels (2). Reddel. Conversions. Leake (4), McPhail.

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Oklahoma leads 80–⁠7–⁠2 in 89 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.