FIRST game ever between OK A&M Tigers and OU Rough Riders - Guthrie, OK
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This historical marker at Mineral Wells park gives information on the first Oklahoma Bedlam game.
Waymark Code: WM10PRE
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 06/08/2019
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Mineral Wells Park is the location of this historical marker, and the first ever football game between what is currently OSU in Stillwater and OU in Norman. The marker is in front of a historical pavilion that was recently rebuilt after being destroyed by storms.
The field next to the pavilion is the actual site of the first Oklahoma Bedlam game.
Text on marker:
Sooners vs. Aggies
Bedlam/Nov. 5, 1904
Bedlam Beginnings
The date was Nov. 5, 1904. The place was Old Island Park, later renamed Mineral Wells Park, in Guthrie, OK. The event was a football game---the first game ever between the Oklahoma A&M Tigers of Stillwater and the Oklahoma University Rough Riders of Norman.
The day was bitterly cold with blustery winds out of the north. The boundaries were vaguely defined. And one of the oddest touchdowns ever recorded in football history occurred when an Aggie punt was carried backward by the wind until it bounced into Cottonwood Creek. Players from both teams pursued the evasive football into the deeper, chilly waters of the creek, but it was a Rough Rider who prevailed and climbed ashore with the football.
Incidentally, every players on the OU squad scored that day, soundly defeating the Aggies 75-0. Thus, Bedlam Football in Oklahoma was born.
(arrow pointing to game site)
FIRST - Classification Variable: Item or Event
Date of FIRST: 11/05/1904
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