(12/6) Joe Washington to be inducted into College HoF, and Holiday Bowl tickets
Tickets going fast: Sales for Pacific Life Holiday Bowl tickets were brisk Monday, according to officials in the University of Oklahoma Athletics Ticket Office. In the first day of the sale, 10,000 tickets were sold. The remaining 1,000 will go on sale Tuesday morning to OU students who were football season ticket holders. That sale begins online at SoonerSports.com at 7 a.m. Any tickets that are not sold to students will go on sale to the public at 8 a.m. (Sooner Sports Release)
Joe Washington to be inducted into Hall of Fame tonight: Little Joe Washington goes into the College Football Hall of Fame tonight, and a fellow Oklahoma running back great will be honored as well at the 48th annual awards dinner of the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame. Prentice Gautt, who in 1957 broke the OU football color line, will be honored posthumously with the Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award. Gautt, who graduated from Oklahoma City's Douglass High School, died in March. Washington, a Sooner halfback from 1972-75, ended his career as the OU career rushing leader, with 4,071 yards. Also tonight, Alan Page of Notre Dame, who went on to a Pro Football Hall of Fame career with the Minnesota Vikings, then became a judge, will be presented the Distinguished American Award. (NewsOK.com)




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