In 1959, Did the Mafia Poison OU Players?

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Heading into the 1959 season, blowu was rated No. 2 in the country. Their first game was at Northwestern, in Chicago. The Sooners were heavy favorites. The Fifties was an era where blowu was the dominant football team in the country and only lost something like 13 games during the whole decade.

Their Thursday night meal was at a French restaurant. Every player was served the same meal, which had been ordered months in advance by OU personnel. 12 players became violently ill right away. Several were hospitalized.

That Saturday, Northwestern beat a depleated OU team, 45-13. I gather that score was more shocking back then than Northwestern beating OU 45-13 would be today. Bud had never lost a game by more than a TD.

The initial reports were that many Sooners received food poisoning. Bud Wilkinson, a class act, never complained, he just said that Northwestern beat their butts. His son, however, claimed in a documentary aired on Fox Sports Southwest, that Bud and some folks in Washington suspected the players were actually poisoned by the Mafia in order to hedge their gambling bets. He evened named which poison they used, but I can't recall it. The Chicago Police apparently showed very little interest in investigating the incident.

I know this because Fox Sports Southwest aired about 8 hours of OU football history on Christmas Day. How about that? The Sooners have a network that people can actually see!

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I don't know about the poison event but OU was on the downswing that year. They were to lose 2 more games that year to us and NB and only win 3 games in 1960 and were 5-5 in 1961.
 
"The Chicago Police apparently showed very little interest in investigating the incident."

Very interesting story I never heard about. I agree, nothing that happens in Chicago surprises me - that is one corrupt town....
 
Let's get an input from Satchel - he would probably blame it on George W. Bush.

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There is an excellent museum in the School Book Depository Building, el squared, where you can see Oswald's vantage point where he shot Kennedy. There are yellow X's painted on the street below where the bullets hit.
I thought from all the discussion that it would appear impossible to hit anything from up there, but I was shocked the distance was so close. I think any skilled deer hunter could have made the shots.
There is a nice book store there where you can buy all the conspiracy books you want, also.
re: original assertion, the better question would be did the 1973 OU team poison the mafia?
 
I am amazed there are people who still think Kennedy was victim of a conspiracy, and that man didnt walk on the moon or the CIA was actually behind 9/11.

Oswald was a marine sharpshooter and yes he and anyone of the marine sharpshooters could have made those shots in their sleep from that distance. Every conspiracy theorist likes to conveniently forget that fact. Oh and Armstrong did in fact walk on the moon as did 11 others and the CIA or the Israelis or Dick Cheney were not behind 9/11 Al Qaeda was.
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FWHorn, yes, there are actually people who believe in wild theories. Like Obama actually
being who he says he is. Now there's a whopper for ya.
 
What is it with OU and the mafia?

The story in the OP is virtually identical to similar allegement about the 1954 OU team in their game against OSU. Oklahoma won that game (Okie State always finds a way to Okie State up in the Bedlam game; some things don't change over the years) but failed to cover the spread.
 
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