Colorado at Oklahoma

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 25, 1953, page 71

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  Oklahoma Runner Races 81 Yards in Last 36 Seconds NORMAN, Okla, Oct. “a With just So seconds left, Half back Merrill Green broke away for 81 yards and a touchdown that pulled Oklahoma out of a tie and gave the Sooners a 27–⁠20 victory over Colorado in a Big Seven conference football game here today Less than a minute earlier, Colorado. a four touchdown underdog, had tied the score at 1920 on Roger Hunts 26-yard run and Don Piper’s conversion. But Oklahoma, fighting to keep its ranking as the No. 9 team in the Nation. decided to gamble on a ground play by Green and in his second carry of the game he was sprung loose for the clincher. Oklahoma was forced to come from behind twice, puzzled by Colorado’s single wing attack then unable to get its own tricky split-T formation to work. A homecoming crowd of 35,- 600 was startled to see Colorado jump into a 60 lead when Frank Bernardo scored on a 12-yard reverse after Colorado had recovered an Oklahoma tumble on the kickoff. Carroll Hardy, a constant run ming threat. added a Colorado touchdown in the second quarter on a 35-yard jaunt and Hunt made the final masker. Colorado 6 z O 30 Oklahoma --- z 14–⁠27 Colorado scoring: Touchdowns-Berpardi, Hardy, Hunt. ConverSionS-Hunt, Piper. Oklahoma scoring: Touchodwns- Grigg (2l, Herndon, Green. Conversions-Leake CD.

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Oklahoma leads 40–⁠17–⁠2 in 59 meetings, counting the 51 since this game.