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Dewey William "Snorter" Luster was the head coach of the University of Oklahoma Sooners football team from 1941-1945. He was also a player on the OU football team under then head coach Bennie Owen and was the captain of his 1920 undefeated team. Luster's tenure as head coach was unusually tough due to the events of World War II. In the six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, nearly 60 Sooner athletes in all sports had enlisted in some branch of the armed services[1] and they continued to lose more as the war progressed. Luster resigned as head coach almost immediately after his Sooner team lost 47-0 to Oklahoma A&M College on November 24, 1945. His official reason for resignation was "poor health."[2]
- ^ Keith, Harold. "Sooner Sports", Sooner Magazine, July 1942, pp. 15.
- ^ Keith, Harold. "Sooner Sports", Sooner Magazine, January 1946, pp. 6.
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Luster, Snorter; Luster, Dewey "Snorter" |
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Football coach |
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