1938 Oklahoma Sooners football team
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Big Six champion
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Orange Bowl, L 0–17 vs. Tennessee
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| Conference | Big Six Conference |
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| AP | #4 |
| 1938 record | 10–1 (5–0 Big 6) |
| Head coach | Tom Stidham (2nd year) |
| Home stadium | Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 32,000) |
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| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #4 Oklahoma $ | 5 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa State | 3 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Missouri | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nebraska | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas State | 1 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1938 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1938 college football season. In their second year under head coach Tom Stidham, the Sooners compiled a 10–1 record (5–0 against conference opponents), won the school's first Big Six Conference football championship, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 185 to 29. The team's only loss came in the 1939 Orange Bowl, losing to Tennessee by a 17 to 0 score.[1][2]
End Waddy Young (Walter R. Young) received All-America honors in 1938,[3] and six Sooners received all-conference honors: Young, guards Jerry Bolton and Ralph Stevenson, backs Earl Crowder and Hugh McCullough, and tackle Gilford Duggan.[4]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | Result | Attendance | ||||
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| October 1 | at Rice* | Rice Field • Houston, TX | W 7–6 | 18,000 | |||||
| October 8 | vs. Texas* | Fair Park • Dallas, TX (Red River Shootout) | W 13–0 | - | |||||
| October 15 | at Kansas | Memorial Stadium • Lawrence, KS | W 19–0 | - | |||||
| October 22 | Nebraska | #14 | Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK | W 14–0 | 28,091 | ||||
| October 29 | Tulsa | #10 | Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK | W 28–6 | 17,000 | ||||
| November 5 | Kansas State | #11 | Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK | W 26–0 | - | ||||
| November 12 | Missouri | #10 | Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK | W 21–0 | - | ||||
| November 19 | at Iowa State | #7 | Clyde Williams Stadium • Ames, IA | W 10–0 | 17,864 | ||||
| November 24 | at Oklahoma A&M* | #6 | Lewis Field • Stillwater, OK (Bedlam) | W 19–0 | - | ||||
| December 3 | at Washington State* | #5 | Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK | W 28–0 | 15,529 | ||||
| January 2 | vs. #2 Tennessee* | #4 | Miami Orange Bowl • Miami, FL (Orange Bowl) | L 0–17 | 32,191 | ||||
| *Non-conference game. | |||||||||
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