Nebraska at Oklahoma

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 23, 1952, page 65

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  Vessels, Crowder Star as Oklahoma Beats Nebraska, 34–⁠13 NORMAN, Okla, Nov. GA mixture of superb passing and running under the generalship of Quarterback Eddie Crowder gave Oklahoma ee-touchdown lead IN the first quarter and the Sooners rolled on to blast Nebraska. 34–⁠13. today for their fifth straight Big Seven Conference football crown. Halfback Billy Vessels, one of II Sooners playing their last home game, scored three of the Okla homa touchdowns before a home coming crowd of 41,000 sitting in q drizzling rain. Merrill Green and Buck Nc Phail added Oklahoma’s two other touchdowns to give the Nations No. 5 team a record of five vic tories and one tie in the conference race. Nebraska Misses Reynolds. The victory ends Oklahoma’s sixth Big Seven season under Coach Bud Wilkinson. The Soon ers have played 35 loop games without . defeat in that regime. Nebraska, obviously missing its star halfback, BODY Reynolds. who pulled a leg muscle in a signal drill yesterday. tried a variety Of defenses against the hard charging Sooners. sometimes with sue cess, as Oklahoma was blanked in the second and third quarters. The Cornhuskers, with chance to tie Oklahoma for the loop flag If they won, twice were able to score at the end of 70-yard drives in the second and final quarters. Crowder Averages 8 Yards. Nebraska’s Halfback Bob Smith tailed his teams first touchdown with 2l2 minutes left in the second quarter, cutting around left end. That made the score 20–⁠6. With two minutes gone in the last period. Nebraska repeated to end the scoring. Dick Rolston picked up tumble and scrambled IA yards to the goal after teammate George Cifra had run yards but was Jared loose from the ball. Crowder carried eight times for 81 yards, an average of 8.3 yards a carry, and clicked on S of III passes for 1923 yards as he spanked the Sooners. MacPhail, rushing 1876 yards in % carries, and Vessels. making 96 in 20 tries. both broke Oklahoma S modern seasonal rushing records of 902 yards set in 1916 by Joe Golding. Vessels ran his total to- $50, McPhail to 922 and the Soon ers still have one game left-meeting the Oklahoma Aggies next Saturday. Oklahoma rolled up 349 yards rushing to 1876 for Nebraska. okIahoma ISonH -- 20 Q IA o-34 Nebraska scoring: Touchdowns-smith Roston. Conversion-Korinek. Oklahoma scoring: Touchdowns-Vessels 80, Green and McPhail. Conversions-McPhat “a.

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Oklahoma leads 47–⁠38–⁠3 in 88 meetings, counting the 56 since this game.