George Lynn Cross sat in the superintendent's box of Michie Stadium on Sept. 28, 1946. The OU president sat to the left of West Point superintendent Maxwell D. Taylor. To Taylor's right sat another president. Harry Truman.
The Sooners were playing mighty Army, winner of 19 straight games and a gridiron force bigger than present-day Alabama.
OU football was but a blip on the national stage. The 1938 Sooners had made the Orange Bowl and finished fourth in the AP poll. Otherwise, to the Eastern Press that was the ESPN of its day, Oklahoma was the name of a musical, not the name of a football power.