The Sooners
Author : Roderic Horton
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : Roderic Horton
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : Aimee Aryal
Publisher : Mascot Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category : Football fans
ISBN : 9781932888294
A University of Okalahoma children's book
Author : Jim Fletcher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1596980699
Sooner fans, this is the one you've been waiting for--a book written by a die-hard fan, for die-hard fans. Chock-full of action photos, these pages capture the excitement and the glory of a century of Sooner football. The Die-Hard Fan's Guide to Sooner Football takes you on a tour through the long, proud history of the OU football program, from the birth of Sooner football in Bud Risinger's barber shop, through the dynasties of Bud Wilkinson and Barry Switzer, to Bob Stoops's powerhouse teams of today. Here you will find vintage reports on the Sooners' very first football games, in-depth details about OU's historic Wishbone offense, and a close-up look at OU's seven--count em, seven--national championship teams.
Author : Noah B. Riley
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781790659500
This is an in-depth breakdown of Lincoln Riley's record setting 2018 Oklahoma offense. This book examines the Sooner's playbook with diagrams and stats included. I hope coaches reading this book come to understand the thought process, and concepts that make up this offense so that they can implement some of these ideas into their own system. Email me at [email protected] or dm me on twitter @noahriley21 with any questions or if you want full season 2017/2018 cut ups.
Author : John Scott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806177012
At the end of World War II, the top ten college football teams were largely the same as they are today—with one exception: Oklahoma. In 1947, Bud Wilkinson was named OU’s head football coach and became the architect of Oklahoma’s meteoric rise from mediocrity to its present status as a perennial powerhouse. Based on interviews with Wilkinson, former OU president George L. Cross, and numerous former players, author John Scott gives us the behind-the-scenes story of Wilkinson’s years at the University of Oklahoma. Scott takes us through the teams Wilkinson directed from 1947 to 1963, revealing the philosophies and tactics Wilkinson used to turn OU into one of college football’s elite programs. A close-up view of games—from strategy to execution—brings OU football and its cast of colorful characters to life. Scott details the Sooners’ 47-game winning streak as well as thrilling games against Notre Dame, Army, USC, and others. He also provides details of Wilkinson’s breaking of the color line in OU athletics and the infamous food-poisoning incident in Chicago in 1959. Before his death in 1994, Wilkinson reviewed the first draft of the book and wrote in a letter to the author, “The explanations of football strategies are concise and clear. They rank among the best I have ever read.” Including vignettes of Wilkinson’s closest coaching friends (Royal, Bryant, Leahy, Sanders, Blaik, Tatum), Bud Wilkinson and the Rise of Oklahoma Football captures all the drama of Oklahoma’s ascendance and serves as an authoritative and entertaining history of the sport that will appeal to all college football fans.
Author : Alex Monnig
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1614803161
Boomer Sooner! Much like throwing the deep ball on the opening drive, Oklahoma Sooners strikes fast and hard with colorful, fact-filled storytelling that details the history, legacy, and prestige of the University of Oklahoma college football program. Boomer Sooner! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Gene Wojciechowski
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0316455938
From the legendary Oklahoma coach, a candid and inspiring memoir. When Bob Stoops took over as football coach in 1999, the Oklahoma Sooners were in disarray with back-to-back losing seasons. But in just two years' time, Stoops achieved the seemingly impossible: winning a national championship and returning the struggling Sooners to their powerhouse status, churning out NFL talent, Heisman Trophy winners and conference championships, bowl wins and national title runs on a regular basis. During his 18 seasons at OU, his record was a remarkable 190-48. At only age 56, at the peak of his career, he stunned the college football world by walking away. For the first time, Bob opens up about his career alongside the evolution of the game itself. From his unlikely emergence as a star player at the University of Iowa, to his coaching apprenticeships under giants like Hayden Fry, Bill Snyder, and Steve Spurrier, Stoops recounts how the game he fell in love with as a boy has evolved into a billion-dollar business often compromised by recruiting wars, aggressive agents, overzealous boosters and alumni, and the emergence of the CEO head coach rather than mentor and teacher. Bob holds nothing back while explaining why it was time to step away from the game--and players--he still loves. Told with a rare combination of sincerity, vulnerability, and pure heart, No Excuses is both an engaging and eye-opening football memoir and an unprecedented portrait of a coach of one of the greatest legacy programs in the history of the college game.
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : Todd Ryan
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1098210387
This title introduces fans to the history of the Oklahoma Sooners football program. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a timeline, team facts, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Anne Barajas Harp
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0806152338
David Ross Boyd stepped off the train in Norman, Oklahoma, on August 6, 1892, and looked toward the southwest. “There was not a tree or shrub in sight,” wrote the former Kansas school superintendent just hired to serve as the University of Oklahoma’s first president. “Behind me was a crude little town of 1,500 people, and before me was a stretch of prairie on which my helpers and I were to build an institution of culture.” By 1895, five years after the University’s official founding, the school boasted four faculty members (three men and one woman) and 100 students. Today the campus is home to more than 30,000 students and 2,700 full-time faculty and is one of the most respected public universities in the nation, with twenty-one colleges offering hundreds of majors at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral level. OU’s remarkable journey from that treeless prairie to its present standing as a world-class institution of learning unfolds in The Sooner Story. Arriving upon the university’s 125th anniversary, the book updates a history that last left off in 1980, when William Slater Banowsky was at the helm. Author Anne Barajas Harp examines the school’s history through the lens of each presidential administration from the beginning of David Ross Boyd’s tenure to the present moment in David Lyle Boren’s presidency, now in its third decade. In describing what each president encountered in his turn, she captures the unique character, challenges, and accomplishments of each administration, as these reflect the university’s growth and progress through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. “Discouraged?” Boyd wrote at his arrival in 1892. “Not a bit. The sight was a challenge.” The Sooner Story conveys the inspiration and excitement of meeting and renewing that challenge over the past 125 years.