Rice at SMU

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, December 10, 1939, page 35

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  Southern Methodist Blocks Late Kick to Get Counter That Beats Rice, 1877 body against Ole Cordill’s kicking leg. The ball bounded down to the 8, Center Ray Pope picked 1t up and ran for the clinching touch down. Cordill, limping on an injured leg, had two kicks blocked in the last half as S. M. U. linemen had their own way. Mustangs Score Quickly. It looked like the predicted run away for Southern Methodist in the first four minutes OF play, when 1t whirled across a touchdown on q quick drive from the Rice 40. Suddenly Rice started moving by ground. From its 20 Rice. propelled by j. P. Woods winged feet, slashed to the Southern Methodist %. Cordill found Wood for a l4-yard pass, and Floyd Mechler, on two jabs, eased the ball up to the J.. Wood dived over tackle for the score. Livy Bassett’s attempted kick was blocked. Owl Liston Zander recovered a Methodist tumble on his own n to start the next Rice splurge. one that carried clear to the S. M. U. 6 beforo II apded f,ltilelv

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  The Daily Alaska empire, December 9, 1939, page 8

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  FOOTBALL SCORES Final scores of football games played this afternoon received up to press time follow Auburn 0; Tennessee T. Rice 6; Southern Methodist 13. University of Southern Califor- mia 0; U.CL.A. 0.

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.

SMU leads 49–⁠41–⁠1 in 91 meetings, counting the 72 since this game.