Centenary (LA) at Rice

Saturday, November 5, 1927

Centenary (LA) beat Rice 33–⁠7. It was their first meeting; after it, Centenary (LA) led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayCentenary (LA)4–⁠0 in 1927
33
HomeRice2–⁠6–⁠1 in 1927
7

FinalHigh 83°F, low 65°F

In the newspapers

  • The Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current's story: Rice Trimmed By Centenary 1871

    Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, November 6, 1927, page 1

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    Rice Trimmed By Centenary 1871 HOUSTON. Texas. Nov. 5.-E1- Centenary College, Shreveport. romp- ID en- Rice Institute here today 33 20 4. The Centenarians outplayed the institute all the way until the last period when Rice put over its lone touchdown. Rics offered little IN the way of onpositfon to the invaders and only twice during the game did the Owls seriously threaten the Centenary goal. Once in the second period the owls brought the ball down the field “a the Is yard line only 90 have their attempt 20 score turned into a fouchdown By Centenary when 4 pass was intercepted. Centenary scored enc or more times in each quarter. The first ueriod the invaders scored one touch down and added two more in the Sec ora period. The tird and final peri eds found the Shreveport eleven scoring q touchdown in each period.

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 65% to win. Centenary (LA) pulled the upset.

Rice leads 3–⁠1 in four meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1941Rice 54, Centenary (LA) 0
1940Rice 25, Centenary (LA) 0
1939Rice 13, Centenary (LA) 0
1927Centenary (LA) 33, Rice 7

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