The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-11-01
Dizzy Heights in Football
World Reached by Oklahoma
All Victorious Team Is Almost Certainty and Can Kansas
But Trim Nebraska, There Will Be No Limit to the
Claims Which Can Be Made by the Sooners

not to be realized Oklahoma beat
Missouri decisiNcly and the saltwater
team was beaten In clean cut game
at Missouri *. t. took fall OUT
OF the Kansas Aggies. VINO also
played a scorelcss tie with Missouri
T., which should dispose Of that ag-
gregatlou. For Henry Kendall and
Arkansas L., there Is seemingly such
preponderancc OF superiority In ia
Vor Of the SuOners that nothing short
OF a catycltsm, or % hurricane behind
them, should ALLOW them 20 take
ovens warriors into camp.
Everyone On oklahoma IS pulling
FOR the kauslus To beat Nebraska
when those teams meet two weeks
from last SATURDAY. Should this he
done, Oklahoma might rIghtfully
claim premier hunOrs over an teams
In the west and an equality with any
Big Nine team Ncbraskus defeat
OF Notrr Dame being taken into con-
sideratiou There In more than II
small chance for this dream 10 come
true. Olrott will have finished
team for Nebraska CwI-+-it he did not
have tu throw against the S'snersl
Captain James WI be In the game.
as will Keeling Lindsey Will he "A
whole man and Fast the flash who
tore through Oklahoma I'm the last
quarter, win start and finish barring
accidents.
However. Jumbo Steihm has "A
wonderful aggregation at the Neuras-
ka capital, and the odds arc all lu
favor Of his team again winning the
I..tg
played consistently throughout the
season and on present indications.
has almost the same chance to win
the remainder OF It's games as mas
tho Sooner team.
SO much for ifs and uuds Al
though columns have been written
about the game at Norman SATURDAY
and sport and special writer's have
exhausted vOcabularies In prlislng
tho SOoners, there still remains some
thing 10 be said for both teams Had
the weather been 80 degrees cooler,
had Captain James and Keeling ~
Kansas been In the game md had
not the Kansas coaches made the
ulstak" " holding l.. Gillespie and
| Fast out in the first halt with the
/ idea Ot saving them fUr Nebraska,
things might have been different
Again had Montgomery not been
| knocked out early In the game. had
Fields not been hurt and had Nc
| Nmu not received broken wrist aud
II strained back. still another story
might have been told IL would be
difficult TO imagining Mccain play
Ing more brilliant game. had he
been uninjured, M no greater eyhibl-
ton WAS ever staged by COurtwright
Reeds or Capshaw, than was shown
| by ovens wonderful little halfback
In the tussle with the heefy North
erners Hap johnson, Captain
geyer and W Holt. were also out
standing stars " the purest ray Sc
rene, although Il is little short Oi
llbel To single out one or few meu
from owens team and give them rs
peclal honors Each man played
stcllar football. and we venture m,
prediction that there In not frsl
string man on the Sooner team thai
could not find place on any yol'eg,
team In the land.
The Kansas coaches, true 10 rhcu
designation NJ good sports. had u.
excuses to offer. no alihis TO present
ThuE stated freely and without equiv
l.Huuu mat the better team mad WON
bHgh ~ them. however. could mo-
help hut hewAil those two disastrou
fumhlcs az the south end OF the field
/ which cost Kansas a touchdown anD
gave one TO the Sooners ON 'hI
lO-yRrd line. four downs tO go fhO
Blue team made two muffs that eos
them 20 wards and the ball hmm,
diately after which Geyer pulled
6O-yard forward pass which resu'tnD
m Il touchdown These fumhles. am,
poorer tackling than the team hl
done this year. together with Iu
weather and too much water cousu
iutcd the consolation that was avail
able for wearers of the red and blue
In the final analysis Go quo.
the efficiency experts and hig hus
ness hugs) all honor goes ~ nr
Hcuuie owen The writer WAS l
norman on the first day the Soon
rry were out Aside from Ctun
Geycr. Hap Johnson. rlpl1s un
Montgomery tfor the Uutt bows thu
had announced their intention u
not coming hRCk things looked v,i
indigo Indeed Rut patience then
and wonderful driving power nr
ability 20 iustll football kuowIpdp
into Inexperienced heads later mad
the perfect machine which went m'
action Saturday. SOme NJ these daN
tnnd KanHns pretty near dll n n.
YEAR, some school will mpks OW,
an offer he win not me- able tn p.
fuse, and then. truly win % o. rel.
lze that "A one-nrmcd little lightweight
has done more for that school Tina
any man OF set NJ men since IN
first student was enrolled 1t Scot
man.