Red River Shootout

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20050660

Description

The Red River Shootout game between the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas is being held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. The rivalry began in 1900 and has been running since. The 1941 contest is all Longhorns early as the Sooners struggle to ignite their offense. A pile of Sooners are shown near the first down marker as the big linemen tried to help push their teammate to a conversion. The Sooners in the pile are numbers 44, 65, and 70 with 45 arriving late. There is a Longhorn at the bottom of the pile, who made the tackle. Number 70 for the Longhorns lost his helmet during the action. The Longhorns went on to win the game 40-7.

Archival Date

1941-10-11

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-1414

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

Rights

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License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Subjects

Red River Shootout; Red River Rivalry; University of Texas; Texas Longhorns (Football Team); University of Oklahoma; Football; Football players; Referees; Oklahoma Sooners (Football team); Uniforms; Cotton Bowl (Football game); Athletic fields