1937 Oklahoma Sooners football team
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| Conference | Big Six Conference |
| 1937 record | 5-2-2 (3-1-1 Big 6) |
| Head coach | Tom Stidham (1st year) |
| Home stadium | Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 32,000) |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #11 Nebraska $ | 3 | – | 0 | – | 2 | 6 | – | 1 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oklahoma | 3 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 2 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas | 2 | – | 1 | – | 2 | 3 | – | 4 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Missouri | 2 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa State | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas State | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1937 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1937 college football season. In their first year under head coach Tom Stidham, the Sooners compiled a 5-2-2 record (3-1-1 against conference opponents), finished in second place in the Big Six Conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 98 to 39.[1][2]
End Pete Smith received All-America honors in 1937,[3] and four Sooners received all-conference honors: Smith, back Jack Baer, center Mickey Parks, and end Waddy Young.[4]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | |||||
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| September 25 | at Tulsa* | Skelly Field • Tulsa, OK | L 7–19 | 16,000 | |||||
| October 2 | Rice* | Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK | W 6–0 | - | |||||
| October9 | vs. Texas* | Fair Park • Dallas, TX (Red River Shootout) | T 7–7 | - | |||||
| October 16 | at Nebraska | Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, NE | T 0–0 | - | |||||
| October 23 | Kansas | Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK | L 3–6 | - | |||||
| October 30 | at Kansas State | Memorial Stadium • Manhattan, KS | W 19–0 | - | |||||
| November 6 | Iowa State | Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK | W 33–7 | 8,194 | |||||
| November 13 | at Missouri | Memorial Stadium • Columbia, MO | W 7–0 | - | |||||
| November 25 | Oklahoma A&M* | Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK (Bedlam) | W 16–0 | - | |||||
| *Non-conference game. | |||||||||
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Media
This was the first season that all Sooner football games were radio broadcast over the air. The games were carried by WKY and Walter Cronkite was the announcer.[5]
References
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