Shared by Vickie Nowlin
This is my friend Myrna, whose deceased husband played for OU. Harold, did you know him? You played for OU before him, I suppose. Jim (Lawrence?????) Myrna remarried and I have only recently found out her first husband played ball. Lawrence may not be his name.
This is my friend Myrna, whose deceased husband played for OU. Harold, did you know him? You played for OU before him, I suppose. Jim (Lawrence?????) Myrna remarried and I have only recently found out her first husband played ball. Lawrence may not be his name.
This is from a note that I sent to my 2 Sons earlier. I am trying to share
stories of my life with their Dad so they will have them to remember when I
can no longer remember them...which may be any day now. :)
The Daily Oklahoman ran a series last week on Countdown to Bedlam.showing
the Top 10 Faves, over the years. In 5th place, in their estimation, but
#1, in mine, was the 1958 Game, Jim's Senior Season. We had been beaten
only by Texas, and only by one point. We were still smarting from that. We COULD NOT let A & M beat us.We OWNED the Big 7 and they were in the lowly
MVC.
The game stayed tied 0-0 through 3 quarters and everyone's nerves were on edge. All of the wives sat together in a special section and we always left the game a little early to get down in the end zone or exit, or wherever the
team headed, after the game. We sat there and sat there, and actually stayed too long. We finally left our seats and headed to the designated area for meetin' and greetin' our guys. It was still nuthin' to nuthin' and we had to push through a crowd that was on their feet, just to get to the ramp.
We were actually running around the outside of the stadium when we heard all sorts of celebratory sounds from inside the stadium.cannon.cheers.guns.you know the drill. We didn't know what had happened, but we knew that
something BIG had. Just as we got to the gate, the crowd started pouring out and Duane Moses, one of Jim's Sayre HS team mates saw me and ran over and picked me up and threw me up in the air.(I was teeny tiny then! :) ) and said we had won. Later, in what seemed like FOREVER, The Happy Sooners came out and there were Hugs all around. I soon learned that Jim had been a Hero, of sorts, opening the hole for Bobby Boyd to go through for the winning TD. Ah, Yes.those were the days!
The Daily Oklahoman ran a series last week on Countdown to Bedlam.showing
the Top 10 Faves, over the years. In 5th place, in their estimation, but
#1, in mine, was the 1958 Game, Jim's Senior Season. We had been beaten
only by Texas, and only by one point. We were still smarting from that. We COULD NOT let A & M beat us.We OWNED the Big 7 and they were in the lowly
MVC.
The game stayed tied 0-0 through 3 quarters and everyone's nerves were on edge. All of the wives sat together in a special section and we always left the game a little early to get down in the end zone or exit, or wherever the
team headed, after the game. We sat there and sat there, and actually stayed too long. We finally left our seats and headed to the designated area for meetin' and greetin' our guys. It was still nuthin' to nuthin' and we had to push through a crowd that was on their feet, just to get to the ramp.
We were actually running around the outside of the stadium when we heard all sorts of celebratory sounds from inside the stadium.cannon.cheers.guns.you know the drill. We didn't know what had happened, but we knew that
something BIG had. Just as we got to the gate, the crowd started pouring out and Duane Moses, one of Jim's Sayre HS team mates saw me and ran over and picked me up and threw me up in the air.(I was teeny tiny then! :) ) and said we had won. Later, in what seemed like FOREVER, The Happy Sooners came out and there were Hugs all around. I soon learned that Jim had been a Hero, of sorts, opening the hole for Bobby Boyd to go through for the winning TD. Ah, Yes.those were the days!
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Vickie,
ReplyDeleteI was on the 1952 and 53 football teams at OU. Jim probably was a 1954 freshman. I didn’t know him.
For you: Fall of 1953 I was a sophomore at OU. Bobby Green was a senior at Oklahoma A&M and their starting quarter back. (He was previously engaged to Lois Lewis. I married her August 9, 1953) the highlight of my college football career was when I (Linebacker) tackled Bobby Green in the middle of Owen Field. The next play Bobby completed a pass in my zone. Lois was in the stadium. Recently I asked her what she was thinking at the time. She said “I was proud”.
The outcome of the game: OU 47 - A&M 7. Bobby ran 67 yards for A&M’s only TD.
Harold Powell