University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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Splashing to the finish line in a trial workout before the Big Six swimming meet are Sooners Kay Burns, Harry Hill and Elvin Crowder. Babe Eubanks swings from his socks at a Nebraska high, during the first Cornhusker fracas at Haskell Field. The Sooners swept both games. Coach Jake Jacob ' s sprint medley team which won the Texas and Kansas relays in the spring of 1947. Landon Westbrook, Lex Shelby, Johny Allsup and Kenneth Biggins. Continuing his never-ending search for a sure-fire combination to put on the floor. Coach Bruce Drake has 10 of his most- likely looking cage prospects locking horns on the Fieldhouse hardwoods in an intra-squad game. KLAHOMA UNIVERSITY has had competitive sports ever since Presi- dent David Ross Boyd first founded the territorial school in Charley Gorton ' s big pasture back in 1892. In those days football, baseball and track weld- ed the students and faculty together in strong bands of loyalty, and lifted them out of the academic boredom to which the impoverished new school would have been doomed in those days. Nowadays sports at OU have so in- creased in popularity that their roots go deeply into all strata of university life — students, faculty, regents, adminis- tration and alumni.

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ilM ' W Co-Captnins Burris and Mitchell anxiously watch the flip of the coin before the Oklahoma-Kansas game which set an all-time attendance record. This football was all serious busi- ness from the first day on. Bud Wilkinson is pictured here tal king over the coming season with one of his all-Big Six tackles. Homer Paine.

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Dressed up to go hunting, these couples lay their rifles aside to take a few steps to Put Your Little Foot at the Delt Hunting Lodge dance % ' V- 1 ■ v - y r V J ( ifti ' , T»- V % OCIAL life at the University of Oklahoma is definitely an integral part of every student ' s curriculum. The word party has never needed the English department to clarify its meaning. It is always an excellent excuse for dropping everything, and as far as originality goes OU might easily be said to top the nation in truly exuberant affairs. Yes, the Oil diploma signifies academic accom- plishment, but it also means social preparedness.