"We have two big weekends a year," said a Dallas businessman last week. "One is New Year's. The other is the TexasOklahoma game." Dallas hotel rooms had been reserved for months, airlines and railroads hauled capacity crowds, the Cotton Bowl itself had been sold out since August. The Chamber of Commerce candidly figures the fans, swarming into city nightclubs or out to the State Fair, leave at least $2,000,000 in the city's tills -making football enthusiasts of every merchant in town. For Texans it was all a bust. A pair of fleetfooted Sooner halfbacks, Tommy McDonald and Clendon Thomas, sifted...
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