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Oklahoma Sooners begin 47 game winning streak...
Oklahoma Sooners begin 47 game winning streak...
Item # 723838
October 11, 1953
SPRINGFIELD SUNDAY REPUBLICAN, Mass. Oct. 11, 1953
* Oklahoma Sooners - NCAA college football
* 1st win of the iconic 47 game winning streak
* Coach Bud Wilkinson vs. Texas Longhorns
Page 4 of the sport's section has a one column heading: "OKLAHOMA SCORES EARLY TO DEFEAT TEXAS FOE, 19-14" with subhead. (see images) See details below. Other college football game results of the day.
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because there was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete with 60+ pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition.
AI notes: On October 10, 1953, the No. 16 Oklahoma Sooners opened what would become the greatest winning streak in major college football history by defeating No. 15 Texas 19–14 in the Red River Rivalry at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, kicking off a run of 47 consecutive victories that stretched through the 1953–57 seasons under coach Bud Wilkinson; after that close Texas win, OU finished the 1953 season unbeaten the rest of the way, then went 10-0 in 1954 and 11-0 in 1955 (winning national titles in both 1955 and 1956), regularly dominating opponents on both sides of the ball, before the streak finally ended with a 7–0 loss to Notre Dame on November 16, 1957 — a record that still stands as the longest in Division I college football.
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