TIE new extended range ofRadio Station WNAD during broadcastsof University of Oklahoma football gamesthis fall is going to surprise a lot of fansand alumni, predicts Clyde L. Farrar,University radio engineer ."Because of our new low frequency of

640 kilocycles (64 on most radio dials)and the height of our new 300-foot tower,our range will be approximately triplewhat it has been in the past,"Mr . Farrarexplained.The engineer says WNAD's new set-

up will have a calculated range (whereevery listener may hear it well) of 107miles with the reception stronger in thenorth, west and south and some weakerin the east because the poor farming landtowards the east affects the conductivityof the ground .That means that all cities inside a cir-

cle bounded by Ponca City on the north,Pond Creek and Seiling in the northwest,

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"Here's to a good season!" might be what these ten seniors on Coach Dewey "Snorter" Luster's University of Oklahoma foot-ball team are saying as they drink a toast of orange juice to their coming campaign . From left to right in the picturethey are: Jack Jacobs, Howard Teeter, Chad Vallance, Louis Sharpe, Orv Mathews, Roger Eason, Lyle Smith, Marvin

Whited, Ralph Harris and Jack Haberlein

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Elk City in the west, Frederick in thesouthwest, and Gainsville, Texas in thesouth and Durant, Atoka and McAlesterin the southeast should be able to getBruce Drake's Sooner football broadcasts,with Clancy Frost assisting, clearly .Farrar also pointed out that WNAD

will have a secondary range (in which 90per cent of the area will get the broadcastreasonably well) of 175 miles on all sidesof Norman . This will include such statecities as Medford, Alva, Woodward, Sayre,Altus, Hugo, Muskogee, Tulsa, and Paw-huska.To ascertain whether your city falls

within one of these two ranges, take ahighway map with a scale of miles andmeasuring 107 miles as the crow flies, in-scribe a complete circle around Norman .If your city lies within this circle, youshould be able to hear the broadcast well(unless you are on the east side wherethe reception is some poorer .)

Then inscribe the larger circle with the175-mile radius and you will see whatcities and towns are included in the sec-ondary range .Mr. Farrar says things that determine

the range of radio stations are power (theUniversity station's power is 1,000 watts) ;height of the antenna (the Universityhas just completed a new 305-foot tower150 yards east of the Stadium on the golfcourse ; frequency (the lower the better,and WNAD's frequency was changedfrom 101 to 64 on the dial ; and conduc-tivity of the ground .

Because of its lower frequency, WNADshould be able to reach as far as any singlestation ever to attempt the Sooner foot-ball broadcasts . All nine games, road con-tests as well as home, will be broadcast.Don't forget, WNAD's new location on

the dial is 640 kilocycles (or when thedial isn't marked in hundreds, just plain64 .)

Give it a trial on your radio and then

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drop a post card to WNAD, Norman,and report on the reception in your area .The University's radio station is your

station and your co-operation will be ap-preciated.

Great Backfield,Average LineA brilliant backfield operating behind

an average line-that's the way CoachDewey "Snorter" Luster's OklahomaSooner first team stacked up as it readiedits deceptive attack for the Oklahoma Ag-gie opener .Few football teams in the land prob-

ably have a starting backfield equal tothe Sooner quartet of Marvin Whited,190-pound senior fullback and blocker;Orv Mathews, 162-pound senior quarter-back ; Jack Jacobs, 185-pound senior tail-back and Joe "Junior" Golding, 175-pound sophomore wingback.Oklahoma's problem, and it will be

especially acute in the early Oklahoma Ag-gie, Texas and Santa Clara battles, wiltbe to improve her own second team toa point where it can slug cleat to cleatwith the veteran second aggregations ofthese three schools, each of whom returnsmore than two full teams of veterans .The Sooner starting line this fall lacks

the excellent material of the famed Soonerforward walls of 1937, '38 and '39.

Line Coach Lawrence "Jap" Haskellhas been using Dub Lamb, a junior whoplayed very little behind Bill Jennings lastseason, and Sophomore Jim Tyree at end,Roger Eason and Howard Teeter at tackle,Ralph "Fats" Harris and Mitch Shadid,a 167-pound third stringer last year atguard, with Max Fischer, lanky sopho-more, at center .The real challenge to the new graduate

coaching staff is development of the Ok-lahoma second team. The Sooner secondteam line contains five men who didn'tplay a minute last year, Tackles Plato An-dros and Chad Vallance, Guards ClareMorford and Dick Boepple and CenterJack Marsee .The backfield has more experience

with Huel Hamm at tailback, 11111 Camp-bell at fullback, Bill Mattox at wingbackand J. S . Munsey at quarterback .

But both Sooner lines are very ordinaryat present and the coaches intend to dosomething about that . No backfield cango behind a weak line, and there is alsothe problem of stopping the enemy teamwhen it gains the ball .

Luster BelievesIn Guy WarrenGuy Warren, the soft-voiced coon-

hunting little man who will scout for theSooners this season, can smell out an en-emy vulnerability farther than one of hishounds can sniff a varmint on a frostynight, says Coach Luster .

Luster gives Warren credit for badlyout-weighed Norman high school's sen-

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sational three-touchdown triumph overAmarillo, Texas, high school at Amarilloseveral years ago, first game the GoldenSandies ever lost on their home field, andalso over the great Oklahoma City Classenteam upon which played Fullback BobbyPeoples, late of Southern California . Lus-ter was the Norman high coach then andWarren was his scout.The tip-off on Amarillo was their medi-

ocre forward passing game ."You can play an eight-man line against

their running and still stop their passing,"was Warren's sage advice, after watchingAmarillo and that's just what Normandid.Scouting the Classen Juggernaut, War-

ren noticed that the Comets, who em-ployed a box formation, always criss-crossed their two deep men but neitherever gave the other the ball, consequentlyhe recommended that Norman never playfor a Classen reverse, but converge uponthe middle to stop the powerful Cometspinners . Again he was dead right .

Boomers LickedSooners in '17, '24

Big, competent, and well-balanced, aUniversity of Oklahoma freshman footballsquad that started workouts September 10with the Sooner varsity is steadily reduc-ing the varsity's mastery in daily scrim-tuages .Coach Frank Crider's Boomers have

three more weeks to get ready for theirgame here October 4 against Coach Dew-ey "Snorter" Luster's Sooners, a contestthat was almost an annual feature whenBennie Owen was the Sooner coach andathletic director .

Fighting Sooner yearlings have actuallyovercome the Sooner varsity twice, win-ning 26 to 19 in 1917 on a 60-yard run byChauncey Dolph, and 13 to 0 in 1924when Frank Potts, now track coach atthe University of Colorado, passed andran the frosh to triumph.Although several of the best Sooner

freshmen reported a bit late and haven'tyet made a place for themselves in thelineups, Crider has been lining the Boom-ers up as follows in the daily scrimmagesagainst the Sooner varsity:

First Team-Jim Tebow, Enid and Arch Brad-ley, Muskogee, ends ; Thurman Garrett, Black-well and Chris Lambert, Enid, tackles ; WalterTanner, Oklahoma City Central and C . F. Bryce,Altus, guards ; Otis Schellstede, Blackwell, center ;Leroy Neaher, Altus, wingback ; Myrtle Great-house, Amarillo, Texas, blocking back ; Son Riley,Oklahoma City Capitol Hill, fullback and DudleyCarson, Muskogee and W . T . Johnson, jr ., Ama-rillo, Texas, tailbacks .

Second Team-Buddy Goodall, Ada andO'Quinn Dunn, Chickasha, ends ; Harold Sime-roth, Purcell and Lee Kennon, Tulsa, tackles ;J . D . Guffey, Shawnee and Oscar Ragland, Burk-burnett, Texas, guards ; Bud O'Day, Durant, cen-ter ; Boone Baker, Amarillo, Texas, wingback ;Virgil Elliott, Blackwell, blocking back ; DonFauble, Shawnee, fullback ; and Bill Hollis, Mang-um and Harold Hill, Norman .

Third Team-Mack McGuire, Muskogee and

Bill Jensen, Perry, ends ; Albert Downs, Atokaand Gary Scott, Tulsa, tackles ; Ben Tillman,Chickasha and Charles Aglcy, Wcwoka, guards ;Stanley Greene, Burkburnett, Texas, center ; JoeBill Whisenant, Duncan, wingback ; Jack Betch-told, Perry, blocking back ; Jim Shafer, Gotebo,fullback and Harold Fisher, Ponca City andDave Wallace, Oklahoma City Classen, tailbacks .

Running PartnerFor SmethersJohn Jacobs, University of Oklahoma

track coach, may have found the fourthman for his Sooner two-mile team thisfall in Teddy Brandt, Sooner footballmascot and ten-year old son of Joseph A.Brandt, new president of the University .On the Sooners' new red cinder oval

one recent afternoon, Dick Smothers,Oklahoma's Big Six two-mile champion,was warming up when a youngster step-ped up to him ."Teddy Brandt's my name . What's

yours," the lad asked, fearlessly ."My name's Dick Smethers," the Soon-

er champion replied, with a grin ."Are you a track man?""Well," replied Smothers, bashfully, "I

go out for track.""May I come run with you?""Sure! We'd like to have you.""All I have to run in are some softball

shoes," the lad said, "but I can run. I usedto run lots when I was in the Princetonsecond grade. Well, I'll come out and runwith you!"When Jacobs heard about it, be immedi-

ately assigned Teddy a locker ."I'll give the boy a chance if he'll prom-

ise not to fall heir to that pipe-smokinghabit his daddy's got," the Sooner coachchuckled .

Haskell AidsMinor SportsWith Athletic Director Lawrence "Jap"

Haskell determined to build up every sporton the Sooner calendar, the University ofOklahoma will try to recover the Big SixAll-Sports championship it lost last schoolyear to Nebraska .

Haskell's interest and help appear thebiggest factor of all in the regeneration ofSooner swimming, tennis, track, basketball,baseball and golf this school year . Notsince the days of the gentle Bennie Owenhave the Sooners had an athletic direc-tor who is as friendly towards the en-tire sports program as is the close-crop-ped fellow who now sits at the big deskin the Fieldhouse's southeast office .The Sooner's new D. A . has not only

aided each of these sports with new jobs,but through a $1,500 resurfacing projectof the Sooner outdoor cinder track, boughtthe swimming team an electric fish forpacing purposes and gave the baseballstands a badly-needed painting .

Best of all, Haskell has laid down anultimatum to football players who arealso proficient in other sports that theywill be expected to double at track, base

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ball or in whatever other sports they maybe needed when the football season isn'ton .

Full collaboration in this policy hasbeen volunteered by Dewey "Snorter"Luster, new Sooner football coach, wholike Haskell wants to see the Universitydo well in all sports and also has givenmuch of his time and counsel to aid intheir enlargement .A strong infiltration of sophomore tal-

ent this fall should start the weaker sportsbooming back towards the high they at-taincd during the Bennie Owen era.Among the new sophomores in otherSooner sports besides football are :Track--John Sliarpd, Carthage, Mis-

souri and Son Wright, Waurika, hurd-lers ; Lonnie Chapman, Tulsa, OklahomaA. A. U. mile champion ; Plato Andros,Oklahoma City, Oklahoma A. A . U . shotput champion ; Ken Farris, Muskogee,broad-jumper ; William Pruett, Normanand Hoyt Burns, Washington, half-milers ;George Kerbo, Duncan, pole-vaulter andDale Mitchell, Cloud Chief, dashes .Swimming-Fred Lyons, OklahomaCity Classen, free-styler ; Virgle "Bud"Dalton, Tuttle, diver; Eugene Kiefer, Ok-lahoma City Classen, back-stroker andbreast-stroker ; and Bob Joles, from Iowa,breast-stroker .

Basketball-Gerald Tucker, Winfield,Kansas ; Bus West, Ponca City ; C. L.Schneider, Ponca City ; Richard Reich,Oklahoma City Central ; Don Jones, Bar-tlesville; Danny Burrell, Henryetta ; DaleMitchell, ( ;loud Chief; lack Grey, Nor-man ; Max Fischer, Norman and RichardVaughn, Ardmore.Tennis-Dale Badgett, Chickasha; Ger-

ald Tucker, Winfield, Kansas ; Drew Put-ty, Oklahoma City Central ; Bob Mc-Curdy, Purcell ; Hob Faulkner, Electra,Texas; J. B. Hampton, Miami; and PeterHronopolus, Enid .Baseball-Jiin Strong, Wichita, Kansas;

Gale Pringle, Hollis ; Ray Lacy, Anadar-ko ; Danny Burrell, Henryetta and DceSanders, Indianola, pitchers ; C. L. Schnei-dcr, Ponca City and Dulcn Day, Indian-ola, infielders ; J . E. Walker, Dale, catcher ;and Miller Cameron, Oklahoma City andDale Cameron, Cloud Chief.

Esthcr Flugllcs,

'41 m.ed, has been in govern-mcnt service for the last ten years as a teacherin the Zuni Indian Schools in New Mexico . Sheexpects to teach in Tulsa this year .

John Mclia~, '41cng, and Mrs . McKay (MadgeCremer, '40fa) are living in Calgary, Alberta,Canada . Mr . McKay, a Canadian citizen, wasgiven a special permit from the Canadian gov-ernment to remain in the United States to com-plete his college studies .Mary Mcl-aury, '41bus, is working as an as-

sistant to her father, Finley Mcl.aury, '16law,in his law office at Snyder, Oklahoma .high Meeks, '-}long, Frederick, has been

named assistant to the chief engineer of RoothCtr0ICL1II1 Company in Idhlorado, Arkansas .

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