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Chuck Fairbanks

Chuck Fairbanks

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Sep 26, 2026

Bill FlemingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
24:14
And right halfback from Houston, Texas, number 32, Drew.
Bill FlemingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
24:17
And the head coach, Chuck Fairbanks.
Bill FlemingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
24:20
Good luck, coach.
Bill FlemingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
24:20
Balls in the lineup.

18 MINS LATER

Chris SchenkelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
41:56
Harrison to the far side, split away.
Chris SchenkelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
42:02
Good gang tackling by the Nebraska defense, including Bill Jansen, 55.
Chris SchenkelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
42:09
Jim Anderson, 18, Ontario, 45, as we look at Chuck Fairbanks.
Chris SchenkelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
42:12
In his sixth year here, he's a graduate of Michigan State, and there you see his won and lost record as head coach.
Ankit ChughHOST
0:11
But Dexter Bussey's place in that conversation deserves to be remembered.
Ankit ChughHOST
0:16
Born in Dallas, Texas, Bussey's college career began at the University of Oklahoma, which, at the time, was a running back factory, led by head coach Chuck Fairbanks and offensive coordinator Barry Switzer.
Ankit ChughHOST
0:30
Yet, Bussey's tenure with the Sooners began inauspiciously.
Ankit ChughHOST
0:34
He arrived in Norman before the 1972 rule change that permitted freshmen to play on the varsity team.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:54
Don Fremmer, who is captain for Oklahoma in this game, a defensive linebacker, number 43.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:02
And their head coach, Chuck Fairbanks, who went to school at Michigan State, coached at Arizona State and at Houston.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:09
And took over when Jim McKenzie died.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:14
And now the Tennessee Volunteers.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
16:31
And Charlie Fulton, who also plays the tailback, can play quarterback, number 12.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
16:37
And number 16, Dewey Warren, a great football player, quarterback.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
16:45
and head coach Doug Dickey, who went to University of Florida.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
16:52
So the introductions are over, and shortly we will have a meeting in the center of the field with the game officials.
Al WesterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
32:26
That's what I'm looking forward to, Van.
Al WesterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
32:28
I didn't realize what a tremendous football team Chuck Fairbanks had until...
Al WesterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
32:32
We, of course, broadcast the Nebraska-Oklahoma game on Thanksgiving Day, and then I realized he has great personnel.
Al WesterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
32:38
Greg Pruitt, his key man, his key offensive back, was out most of that ballgame, only prepared for a few plays, and yet they went on to completely dominate and contain the Nebraska attack.
Mike SteelyHOST
20:20
Still my favorite Sooner offense.
Mike SteelyHOST
20:21
The when Barry went to Chuck Fairbanks and we got to change offenses and the rest was history.
Mike SteelyHOST
20:31
But to me, yeah, that would be awesome.
Mike SteelyHOST
20:34
Sooner fans would absolutely love that because they want to see them, you know, pound the rock and run the football a lot better.
Mike LynchHOST
45:51
Who was the
Bob LobelHOST
45:52
head coach? Who was your head coach at that time? Was it Fairbanks? Chuck
Tim FoxGUEST
45:56
Fairbanks, yep.
Bob LobelHOST
45:58
Wow, what a history the Patriots had.
Bob LobelHOST
46:00
I mean, between Fairbanks and Upton Bell and Bucko Kilroy and Billy Sullivan and Chuck Sullivan.
Bob LobelHOST
46:07
I can't imagine what that was like.
Bob LobelHOST
46:10
That was unbelievable.
Brian BosworthGUEST
10:42
They got emotional because he's one of our best, no question about it.
Brian BosworthGUEST
10:47
Bud Wilkinson, Jack Nick- Chuck Fairbanks, Barry Switzer, Bob Stoops, the winningest coach in college fo- in Sooner history.
Brian BosworthGUEST
10:54
Um, but it's the impact that he did.
Brian BosworthGUEST
10:57
It's, it's, it's, it's he took a program in the '90s that was, wasn't dead and buried, but there was a lot of dust on us, you know? Uh, people had kinda written us off for a little bit, and we were going through coaches, transitional changes, and couldn't find the right combination.
Bill FlemingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
23:17
At right halfback from Houston, Texas, number 30, Greg Lewis.
Bill FlemingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
23:24
And the head coach, Chuck Fairbanks.
Bill FlemingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
23:29
Good luck, coach.
Bill FlemingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
23:31
Well,

16 MINS LATER

Chris SchenkelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
40:01
Good gang tackling by the Nebraska defense, including Bill Jansen, 55.
Chris SchenkelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
40:08
Jim Anderson, 18, Ontario, 45.
Chris SchenkelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
40:10
As we look at Chuck Fairbanks in his sixth year here, he's a graduate of Michigan State, and there you see his won and lost record as head coach.
Chris SchenkelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
40:18
The man who was an assistant under Frank Cush at Arizona State, Bill Yeoman in Houston.
Joe SantosGUEST
14:05
And yeah, so then that's the end of the year, 72.
Joe SantosGUEST
14:10
And then the next year they bring in Chuck Fairbanks, who I think he was the coach and the journal manager.
Joe SantosGUEST
14:16
And he turns it around.
Joe SantosGUEST
14:17
They draft John Hanna, Russ Francis, Grogan.

16 MINS LATER

Joe SantosGUEST
30:39
I don't think anyone beat the Bears that year.
Joe SantosGUEST
30:40
But just to make the Super Bowl back then was a pretty big accomplishment considering all they had gone through.
Joe SantosGUEST
30:47
I mean, Chuck Fairbanks had some success, but.
Joe SantosGUEST
30:49
Even he got caught up in the whole controversy with the word get out he wanted to go to Colorado.

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