Bill Saxon and his family drove home in the rain on Nov. 17, 1957, on the lonely roads from Norman to Abilene, Texas, in those pre-turnpike days.

The 1951 OU graduate later would become a successful oil man. But in 1957, Saxon sold drilling bits in the Texas oil fields. He lived in one of those tract housing neighborhoods built for returning GIs.

That evening, an exhausted Saxon pulled up to his house, and there on the door of his one-car garage, in dripping red paint, proclaimed the news from the day before.

Irish 7, OU 0.