Rice at Tulane

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 20, 1940, page 1

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  Thrice Beaten tulane Defeats Rice Owls 1876 NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1S.-R- Thrice-beaten Tulane finally found the combination today in a ragged but thrilling exhibition of power, fumbles and penalties to defeat the hitherto u~nscored-on Rice Owls, Is to g., before $4,000 spectators. Rugged James Thibaut, strictly a New Orleans product, put the Green Wave into the lead 60 in the final seconds of the second quarter with a slanting 27-yard field goal from placement. Cheered by being ahead for the first time since the Sugar Bowl game last season, Tulane went to jick UP another touchdown in the third. ~. The game was an almost endless procession of fumbles, costly penal ties, and intercepted passes in which both the hard fighting elevens shared almost equally. A Tulane tumble gave Rice It’s only touchdown. Lou Thomas drop ped the ball and Marvin Dewoody scoopedsit up on Tulane’s “a, from where Joe Price reeled off IA, and Bob Brumley lugged it on across in three tries.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 21, 1940, page 5 (results column)

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  Hi|NY5.iIJ Scores The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon Oregon State o: University of Washington 19. Stanford 26; Washington State IA. U.C.LA. T; California g. Oregon 0; University of Southern California 13. Duke 13; Colgate O. Princeton 28; Pennsylvania 46. Maryland o; Florida l9. Vanderbilt 0; Georgia Tech 19. Nebraska 53; Kansas g. Idaho o; Boston College 60. Iowa 6; Indiana 10. Carnegie Tech O; Notre Dame 61 Iowa State IA Missouri 30. Rice 6; Tulane 15. Northwestern 27; Wisconsin T. Tennessee 27; Alabama 12. Texas 2l; Arkansas O. Illinois 0; Michigan 28. Drake 0; Navy 19. Georgia IS; Columbia 19. Syracuse 6; Cornell 33 Holy Cross 13; NY.U. 2. Fordham 24; Pittsburgh 12. Dartmouth ‘; Yale 13 Army 6; Harvard 6, tie. Penn State 34; Lehigh 0. Connecticut 13; Maine G. Minnesota 13; Ohio State T.

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Rice leads 20–⁠17–⁠1 in 38 meetings, counting the 32 since this game.