SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, Massachusetts, November 17, 1957

* Oklahoma Sooners, Norman
* 47 game win streak ends - college football
* Notre Dame Fighting Irish

This 50+ page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page of the sports section (inside): "NOTRE DAME HALTS OKLAHOMA STREAK, 7-0" with subheads that include: "Irish Shatter Longest Modern Victory String" and more with stats. Related photo on page three shows Notre Dame players carrying coach Terry Brennan off the field. (see)

Tells of the longest ever college football NCAA division I win streak coming to an end at 47 games by the Oklahoma Sooners.

Other news of the day throughout. Light browning with minor spine wear, otherwise in good condition.

wikipedia notes: Bud Wilkinson and his Sooners set a record with 47 consecutive wins, a record that, as of the end of the 2007 season, has only been seriously threatened twice—by Miami and the University of Southern California, both in the current decade. During this streak, the Sooners won the national championship in 1955 and 1956. Additionally, the Sooners won or shared 14 straight conference titles from 1946 to 1959, one under Tatum and 13 under Wilkinson. The closest any team in the Big 8/Big 12 alone has come to matching it is the Sooners' run of eight straight titles (two of them shared) from 1973 to 1980. The Sooners also went undefeated in conference play from November 23, 1946 season through Halloween 1959; their record was only blemished by two ties. This record has never been seriously threatened by any team in what is now the Football Bowl Subdivision; in the Big 8/Big 12 alone, no team since has gone undefeated in conference play more than three years in a row.