Big Bust in Dallas

"We have two big weekends a year," said a Dallas businessman last week. "One is New Year's. The other is the TexasOklahoma game." Dallas hotel rooms had been reserved for months, airlines and railroads hauled capacity crowds, the Cotton Bowl itself had been sold out since August. The Chamber of Commerce candidly figures the fans, swarming into city nightclubs or out to the State Fair, leave at least $2,000,000 in the city's tills -- -making football enthusiasts of every merchant in town. For Texans it was all a bust. A pair of fleetfooted Sooner halfbacks, Tommy McDonald and Clendon Thomas, sifted through the Texas defense with embarrassing ease, scored three touchdowns apiece. Final score: Oklahoma 45, Texas o. It was Oklahoma's 33rd consecutive victory, equaling a record set by the Pitt Panthers back in 1919. Elsewhere, collegiate football ran up more than its share of big scores P:Still smarting from their defeat by Michigan State's Spartans, the University of Michigan's Wolverines took out their anger on the Army, forced the Cadets to fumble eight times and humbled one of the best teams in the East 48-14.

P:In East Lansing, Duffy Daugherty's Michigan State held a practice session at the expense of Indiana, won 53-6.

P:Baffled by the deft passing of Purdue Quarterback Len Dawson and the hard driving of Fullback Mel Dillard, Notre Dame dropped its second game 28-14. P:In the Ivy League Harvard bounced back from its upset by Tufts and overpowered Cornell 32-7. Princeton mauled a weak Penn team 34-0, and Yale ran into unexpected opposition before beating Columbia 33-19.

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