Rice at Texas

Saturday, October 26, 1929

Texas beat Rice 39–⁠0. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Texas led the series 14–⁠2.

AwayRice2–⁠7 in 1929
0
HomeTexas5–⁠2–⁠2 in 1929
39

FinalHigh 59°F, low 49°F, 0.46 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: TEXAS HEADS S. w. LOOP AFTER WIN OVER RICE

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 27, 1929, page 75

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    TEXAS HEADS S. w. LOOP AFTER WIN OVER RICE AUSTIN, Tex, October 26 Drum ming through the game at an easy clip and making and taking advantage of the breaks the University of Texas eleven trampled the Rice Owls here today, SO to O. Texas scored two touchdowns iE each quarter except the fourth when the footing was so slippery that neither team could launch successful drives. AS result of their conquest the Steers tonight were the only Southwest Conference team with two loop VIC tories.

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)

Texas 90% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Texas leads 75–⁠21–⁠1 in 97 meetings, counting the 81 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Texas 37, Rice 10
2021Texas 58, Rice 0
2019Texas 48, Rice 13
2015Texas 42, Rice 28
2011Texas 34, Rice 9
2010Texas 34, Rice 17

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