University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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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.

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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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Through the traditional arch of sabers, Tracy Kelly escorts Honorary Colonel To Morgan in leading the Grand March. With expectations of a gay evening Al Shirley, Bett - Bob Angerman, Dan Rambo, and Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Branan await their coat checks at the ChiO dance. HI I » ' Si»(j ji , ' 4d: -. At the Ruf-Nek dance. Queen Ann Cleveland dances with member Jack Miller while Curly continues big-wheeling. E ' Berry, campaigning, has Goody Brodddus and John Baumerts vote; and Bev- Benjamins coke all over himself if ht should .suddenly turn around.