Tulane at Rice
Saturday, October 15, 1921 Share
Tulane beat Rice 7–6. It was their fourth meeting; after it, Rice led the series 2–1–1.
FinalHigh 83°F, low 61°F
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Tulane–Rice gameRice leads 20–17–1 in 38 meetings, counting the 34 since this game.
| 2024 | Tulane 24, Rice 10 | |
| 2023 | Tulane 30, Rice 28 | |
| 2013 | Rice 17, Tulane 13 | |
| 2012 | Rice 49, Tulane 47 | |
| 2011 | Rice 19, Tulane 7 | |
| 2010 | Tulane 54, Rice 49 |
Around this game
Tulane
- Next gamevs. Mississippi StateOct. 22, 1921
- SeasonTulane in 1921
- ProgramTulane history and records
Rice
- Next gamevs. Southwestern UOct. 22, 1921
- SeasonRice in 1921
- ProgramRice history and records

