Texas at Rice

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 23, 1938, page 26

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  oyus Led BY Melendec Beat Manhattan in Fierce Gane 11 Rice Tops Texas, But Lain Is Lost HOUSTON, Tex, Oct. % R.- Rice today opened its conference play with a 1875 victory over the University Of Texas. scoring the winning touchdown in the last two and q half minutes. A long pass from midfield by Billy Cline, sub back, to Ollie Cor dill gave Rice the ball on the Texas % in the last quarter. Doug Sullivan, back, made . first down on the Texas 3 and scored two plays later. Matt Lawndry kicked goal. Texas scored first on a pass, Wallace Lawson to Lewis Gray, from the 30-yard stripe. Rice scored in the second quarter on a pass, Ernie Lain to Cordill, from the 20. The victory may have cost Rice dearly, however, as Lain was forced out of the game minute later and went to the hospital with badly injured ankle.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 24, 1938, page 5 (results column)

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  FOOT BALL @ ll{5SW& IFS Ma The following are final scores of principal football games played in various parts of the nation last Saturday afternoon: Washington State 6; Oregon State T. Idaho 0; U.CL.A. 33. use. 13; Stanford 2. Arkansas 6; Santa Clara 21. Oklahoma A. & M T; Tulsa U. 20. Washington ‘; California IA Carnegie Tech 0; Notre Dame ‘. Syracuse 12; Michigan State 19. Tufts G. Williams 6, tie. Wayne of Michigan 2; Ohio 52. w. Va. Wesleyan O; Catholic U. 21. Kentucky ‘; Xavier 26. Virginia Tech 0; Washington and Lee 6. Penn State 6; Cornell 21. Texas Christian 21; Marquette 0. Colgate IA; Iowa 0. Virginia Military Institute IA; William Mary 0. Georgetown IA; Manhattan 13. Auburn 6; Georgia Tech ‘. Mercer o; Tulane 51. Kansas T; Iowa State 21. Miami 6; Drake Is. Wisconsin ‘; Purdue 13. Kansas State 13; Indiana 6. Duke 2; Wake Forest 0. Dartmouth 13; Harvard T. So. Methodist T. Pittsburgh 34. Princeton 13; Navy 13, tie. Georgia G. Holy Cross %. Columbia 13; Pennsylvania IA. Chicago T; Ohio State 42. Boston U. o; Army 40. New York U 6; Lafayette T. n Yale 13; Michigan IS. Temple 26; Boston College 26, tie Mississippi State 12; Duquesne 2 Arizona IA; Loyola 12. Willamette 41; College of Idaho o Fordham 26; Oregon 0. Alabama 32; Sewanee o. Centre 26, Presbyterian College z Tennessee 4; Citadel o. Texas A. and M. 6; Baylor 6, tie West Virginia 20; Creighton 13. Oklahoma IA; Nebraska 0. Montana 0; North Dakota T. Missouri 13; Washington of St. Louis o. : Texas 6; Rice 13.

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Texas leads 75–⁠21–⁠1 in 97 meetings, counting the 72 since this game.