Maryland vs. Oklahoma

Monday, January 2, 1956, Orange Bowl

No. 1 Oklahoma beat No. 3 Maryland 20–⁠6. It was their second meeting; after it, Oklahoma led the series 2–⁠0.

Neutral site3Maryland10–⁠1 in 1955
6
Neutral site1Oklahoma11–⁠0 in 1955
20

FinalTV: CBSAttendance 76,561Referee: John Waldorf (Big Seven; split crew: Big Seven, ACC)The game on Wikipedia

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: |Streaking Sooners Leave MARYLAND With No Illusions Terps Trouneed By Devastating Power, Speed

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., January 3, 1956, page 16

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    |Streaking Sooners Leave MARYLAND With No Illusions Terps Trouneed By Devastating Power, Speed MIAMI, Jan. 3-n you were among the 1851 Orange Bowl spectators, or If you were watch ing on television, you know what beat Maryland. There were no secrets, no hid den weapons, no excuses. Okla homa’s masterful 20–⁠6 triumph, its 30th consecutive victory. simply was a matter of a SUI perbly conditioned football team carrying out every assignment. The Sooners were stumped for a half, trailing 60, and might have been scored on twice had not Frank Tamburello FUN bled on the 5-yard line in the first quarter. Devastating Exhibition But in a devastating exhibiton of a combination Of power and speed, something like the high-test gasolines refer to in their ads, Oklahoma came back in the second half with Is minutes and As seconds Of perfection

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

On the newsreel

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Oklahoma 53% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Oklahoma leads 4–⁠0 in four meetings, counting the two since this game.

Recent meetings
1967Oklahoma 35, Maryland 0
1964Oklahoma 13, Maryland 3
1955Oklahoma 20, Maryland 6Orange Bowl
1953Oklahoma 7, Maryland 0Orange Bowl

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