Arkansas at Rice

Saturday, November 6, 1943

Rice beat Arkansas 20–⁠7. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Rice led the series 14–⁠3–⁠2.

AwayArkansas2–⁠7 in 1943
7
HomeRice3–⁠7 in 1943
20

FinalHigh 82°F, low 59°F, 0.31 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Owls Big Third Period Beats Arkansas, 20-7

    Evening star, November 7, 1943, page 29

    Read the text

    Owls Big Third Period Beats Arkansas, 20–⁠7 HOUSTON, Tex. Nov. rP’- Striking with lighmjng-lke rapid ity, Rice scored three touchdoWns IN the third period to defeat Arkansas, 20 to :, today and win its first Southwest Conference football game.

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)

Rice 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Arkansas leads 36–⁠29–⁠3 in 68 meetings, counting the 49 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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