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[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0101]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Matt Mann, vital and vigorous at 71, is looking forward to developing swimming teams at Oklahoma that will "make Bud's great football teams look to their laurels."
Date: January 15, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0102]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(As written by Mann) The hero of this story, as far as I'm concerned, is the young fellow who is the athletic director and head football coach at Oklahoma University. Bud Wilkinson is one of the youngest big-time coaches, and I guess I'm one of the oldest. I've coached more years than he has lived, yet I owe him a great deal. He saved my coaching life when he had the courage to call me out of retirement to coach his swimmer… more
Date: January 15, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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