Arkansas at Rice

Thursday, November 27, 1919

Rice beat Arkansas 40–⁠7. It was their first meeting; after it, Rice led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayArkansas3–⁠4 in 1919
7
HomeRice8–⁠1 in 1919
40

FinalHigh 61°F, low 54°F, 0.04 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The news scimitar's story: RICE TRIMS ARKANSAS.

    The news scimitar, Memphis, Tenn., November 28, 1919, page 1

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    RICE TRIMS ARKANSAS. HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 2S.-Rice rolled up a 10 to 7 count on Arkansas university on the Rice gridiron Thanks giving by a series Of off-tackle rushes. several brilliant end runs and the most spectacular line %plunging which Houston has seer this season. The owls defense functioned in great form, break ing up the Razorbacks’ famous aerial plays in good form. only two passes were completed by the Razorbacks and one of them failed TO gain, The Owls depended almost entirely On the tackle plays and line %plunging for gains. The few forward passes attempted failed.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Rice 76% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Arkansas leads 36–⁠29–⁠3 in 68 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.

Recent meetings
2021Arkansas 38, Rice 17
1991Arkansas 20, Rice 0
1990Rice 19, Arkansas 11
1989Arkansas 38, Rice 17
1988Arkansas 21, Rice 14
1987Arkansas 38, Rice 14

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