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University of Oklahoma Football: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports (Sports by the Numbers)

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The first title in the new, exciting, and completely original Sports by the Numbers series!

The University of Oklahoma Sooners Football program has produced seven national championship teams, four Heisman Trophy winners, and countless legendary coaches, players, and characters. This inaugural book in the new Sports by the Numbers franchise unlocks the captivating history of this football program by providing OU fans with Sooners history in a fresh, provocative, and unique numerical framework.

The format created by the authors distinguishes Sports by the Numbers from everything else to be had today. University of Oklahoma Football is composed of ten chapters, Every offering one hundred numbered factual “mini-stories”—facts, anomalies, records, coincidences, and enthralling lore and trivia. Every chapter begins with an introduction that highlights the many exciting stories detailed in that chapter.

The Sports by the Numbers team has you covered, from “Personal Events” stories that come with the following:

“101: US Army Airborne unit (101st) that OU All-American Bob Kalsu used to be assigned to all the way through the Vietnam conflict. Kalsu used to be drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 1968 and played in the NFL for one year before being referred to as to duty. On July 21, 1970, Kalsu used to be killed in action, making him the only active professional football player to be killed in Vietnam.”
. . . to statistical entries like the following:
“846: Number of yards passing (846) by QB Beryl Clark all the way through the 1939 season, his last at OU. Sixty-four years later, QB Jason White surpassed Clark’s total by exactly 3,000 yards, finishing the 2003 season with 3,846 yards in the air.”

Oklahoma fans will cheer as Sports by the Numbers dedicates pages to renowned names like Bob Stoops (current OU coach), Barry Switzer (legendary coach, 1973-1988), Bud Wilkinson (coach, 1947-1963), Billy Sims (Heisman Trophy winner), Steve Owens (running back), Jason White (Heisman Trophy winner), the defensive Selmon circle of relatives trio of Lee Roy, Lucious, and Dewey, Billy Vessels (halfback), Brian Bosworth (linebacker), Josh Heupel (quarterback), and lots of, many more.

Sports by the Numbers books don’t seem to be just for die-hard sports fans, but for each and every fan and sports history reader who loves sports and wants to know more about their heroes and favorite franchise. Sports by the Numbers books will quench any fan’s thirst for entertainment and knowledge.

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