Arkansas at Rice

Saturday, November 6, 1937

Rice beat No. 16 Arkansas 26–⁠20. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Rice led the series 9–⁠3–⁠1.

Away16Arkansas6–⁠2–⁠2 in 1937
20
HomeRice6–⁠3–⁠2 in 1937
26

FinalHigh 74°F, low 56°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, November 7, 1937, page 1 (results column)

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    ming for the Rose Bowl trip by defeating Tulane, So, as did Fordham with q 21–⁠3 victory over Purdue. Both the major service teams won, Navy taking Columbia, 1875, while Army nOsed out Harvard, 7–⁠6. Min nesota took the lead in the Big Ten by walloping Iowa, 1910. while Indiana staged on upset 100 defeat Of Ohio State. Dartmouth crushed Princeton, 1919, after bad start, as Yale won, 1870, from Brown. In the horse-racing headliner Of the day, the Pimlico Futurity, Will lis Sharpe Kilmer’s Nedayr won handily, with Jacola second and Dsuber third. Following are the results of other outstanding football games: Carnegie Tech, 6; Duquesne, o. Penn State, Z; Pennsylvania, o. Michigan State, Is; Temple, &. Rice. 26; Arkansas, 20. Stanford, Y; Southern California, Nebraska, 13; Kansas. -. Manhattan, 4; Detroit. 0. Holy Cross, IL; Colgate, Z. Washington-Iee, Is; Virginia, s. tFor complsts details go SPORT pases.)

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)

Arkansas 58% to win. Rice pulled the upset.

Arkansas leads 36–⁠29–⁠3 in 68 meetings, counting the 55 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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