Tulane at Rice

Saturday, October 15, 1921

Tulane beat Rice 7–⁠6. It was their fourth meeting; after it, Rice led the series 2–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayTulane4–⁠6 in 1921
7
HomeRice4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1921
6

FinalHigh 83°F, low 61°F

In the newspapers

  • The Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current's story: TULANE DEFEATS RICE.

    Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, Mississippi, October 20, 1921, page 5

    Read the text

    TULANE DEFEATS RICE. Houston, Texas, Oct. 15.-Rice In stitute went down to defeat in hard fought game with the Tulane University eleven here today 7 to s. Tulane scored in the second period when Legendre blocked a punt which Talbot recovered and planted between the goal posts. With but two minutes to play in the final quarter Kennedy, Rice’s fullback, tossed q forward pass 20 yards to MCGEE, who raced 40 yards for touchdown. Kennedy missed the goal. F. N. Pettis sells cold drinks at Alb hrx,s11a nRs..~

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 58% to win. Tulane won as Elo’s underdog.

Rice leads 20–⁠17–⁠1 in 38 meetings, counting the 34 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Tulane 24, Rice 10
2023Tulane 30, Rice 28
2013Rice 17, Tulane 13
2012Rice 49, Tulane 47
2011Rice 19, Tulane 7
2010Tulane 54, Rice 49

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