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OU21 - Who Am I? Mystery Cache

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BoomerBuckeyes: Archiving this series due to more homes built in the area making it harder to find appropriate hiding spots.

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Hidden : 12/10/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Congratulations John52 on another BoomerBuckeye First To Find.

Camo preform. Bring your own pen to sign the log.


This cache is not located at the coordinates above.  Read the biography below to determine which OU graduate is described.  Then make the appropriate correction here.

N 350 08.796

W 0970 21.xxx

I was the first consensus All-American football player. I led the team to its first conference championship ever as well as its first bowl berth ever, in the 1939 Orange Bowl.  I also starred as a heavyweight wrestler for the Sooners.  After college I played professionally for the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League, where I played in the league's first televised game.  I voluntarily gave up my NFL career to become a member of the elite flying club who piloted America’s B-24 Liberator bombers over the European Theatre, flying 9,000 hours against the mighty German Luftwaffe.  Afterwards I volunteered to go back into combat in the Pacific Theatre against the Empire of Japan, where I flew B-29 Super Fortresses.  I was killed on January 9, 1945, in a plane crash during a B-29 raid over Tokyo while attempting to assist a comrade whose plane had one engine on fire.

I was inducted posthumously into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1986 and named the recipient of the Robert Kalsu Freedom Award, presented by the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame, in 2007.  The University of Oklahoma Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Arnold Air Society squadron and Silver Wings chapter is named in my honor.

Who am I?

a. Waddy Young - .178

b. Chef Winters - .212

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)