Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-04
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Okahoma's schedue-Kansas Colorado Kansas State,
Iowa State ecand attendant suspicion that the sooners
not frst-cass football team much maarky.
If you couldn't for yourself whether in person
TV screen, Michigan State and UCLA drew you picture
Monday
Big Ten circles fashionable to speak disdain
OF the Pacific Coast Atlantic Coast Big Seven any other
body institutions primarily identified with football The
Big Tenners most of them fatty disagreed with Okahomas
selection the No team and favored Michigan State No
So what happened? In the Rose Bowl Michigan State
won disputed 17-l4 victory UCLA which obviously
suggests little difference between the pride of the
Big Ten and the of the Pacific Coast.
And what of Maryland, also attacked for its weak"
schedule? Regardless of when how they did it. the Ter
rapn beat UCLA And they the first to admit they
soundly licked by Oklahoma
IN THE WAKE OF oklahomas 20-6 win a prominent
who shall be unidentified except close friend Of
Jim Tatum said:
do you know how many Maryland backs could have
won Job in okahomas frs-string backfeld? so-caled
frststring, should say One Ed Vereb could play The
would action in while That's Just talking of
the Orange Bowl game, of course, but think it means
something"
The coach continued:
almost as good friend of Bud Wilknson's as I am
Tatum's, but to my Jim did a coaching job the
equal of Buds I'll tell you whyhe did have that
explosive backheld Not that close to Michigan
States Oklahomas,"
The Orange Bowl Stadium spells hard luck to Tatum,
whose teams have lost three of their last four there
It's cast spell his quarterbacks. Anyway MiamanS
beginning believe that his touch
far as developing a top quarterback is concerned.
THAT WAS BUMP RAP two years ago, when Mary
land lost to Oklahoma in TO duel Tatum had very fine
college quarterback Bernie Faloney that
running wheel His understudy Charley Boxod
couldn't handle the job at least not in the born
This time Tatums quarterback Frank TambureIo, had
bad day. Hes had good ones. But he mediocre in
comparison with Jimmy Harris of Oklahoma and the
ond-guessers including rabid Maryland camp-foowers,
wondered why he didn't yank Tamburelo real quick and
the senior TAT long LAST Lynn BeightO.
Again, Tatums coaching friend to his aid:
"Beighto he ntoned, sis one of the best kckers in
the business He throw long better than
pro quarterbacks But Tamburelo normally good
ways he is versatile than Beghto Besides
got play ahead of him; Beightol hasn't"
BEIGHTOL HAS BEEN drafted by the Green Bay
Packers They envision him modern Vern Leweyn
it to puntng and he heave football piece
Indeed, Okahomas final touchdown intercept
ton, when Beghtols struck by Sooner lnemen
and he oUerthrew End Bill Walker
ut wouldn't happen to any other passer," Tatum
reminiScing. Ninety nine out of hundred would throw
short when his hit LynnS the exception Matter
fact both of intercepted passes
too far, so guess that ouses up the percentage"
When Carl Dodd his Beighto interrogation 81 yards
for the final score, it closed the door the Maryands,
although they already only they trailing
by 1876 which meant making the hard way by then
it apparent that Oklahoma had the superior horses,
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, there a motion from this
floor to give credit where it dueand the recipient ought
to be Jim Tatum Sure he beats Clemson and George Wash
ingon pretty regularly, but when Jim by TO
UCLA went all the way to 100 record and moved Mary
land into the Orange Bowl job that
1t high time perhaps, to reveal confidence 1t is
breach since the rat-race is ended but at the time
Maryland topped UCLA by TO at College Park many
weeks ago, Tatum told confdants:
This the luckiest win remember. UCLA can
beat four times out of FIVE But can't tell my boys
naturally led them to believe they could anybody
Il honestly thought UCLA the best team in the
country and that lucky" Tatum recalled after
Mondays loss to the realize that UCLA is
not quite the best-Okahoma is"
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