Oklahoma football: Eight great books on Sooner gridiron history
By Chip Rouse
“Legends of Oklahoma Sooner Football,” by Ray Dozier. Sports Publishing, 2014, 224 pages
Legends of Oklahoma Sooner Football” is a 224-page history of one of the blue bloods of college football. The book chronicles what the publisher describes as “the players, coaches, rivalries and events that transformed a club team that played its first game on a dusty territorial prairie into a national powerhouse.”
In 125 years of college football, the numbers put up by the Oklahoma Sooners in football is as impressive as they come: Seven national championships, 49 conference championships, 28 postseason bowl wins, seven Heisman Trophy winners and more than 150 All-Americans.
Narrowing the list of players and coaches who played a significant role in the Sooners’ rich football history to just 36 is about as difficult a task of this kind that one could undertake, but author Ray Dozier has done an excellent job of identifying and profiling the best of the best when it comes to Oklahoma football and the key figures who have helped shaped OU’s place and legacy in the college football landscape.