Rice at TCU

Saturday, November 20, 1943

Rice beat TCU 13–⁠6. It was their 22nd meeting; after it, TCU led the series 13–⁠6–⁠3.

AwayRice3–⁠7 in 1943
13
HomeTCU2–⁠6 in 1943
6

FinalAttendance 3,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: Rice Rallies To Down Texas Christian. 1876

    The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., November 21, 1943, page 6

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    Rice Rallies To Down Texas Christian. 1876 FORT WORTH, -ex., Nov. 90 P’CThe Rice Owls rallied in the last half today to humble Texas Christian 1875 in a game that produced the longest runs of the south west conference football campaign. A crowd of $500 saw Bucky Shelf field engineer a passing attack that produced touchdown in the third period and tally the winning score midway in the last period. Jim Lucas raced SO yards on a punt return in the second quarter to give T. C. U. a 60 lead.

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)

TCU 63% to win. Rice won as Elo’s underdog.

TCU leads 41–⁠35–⁠3 in 79 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.

Recent meetings
2000TCU 37, Rice 0
1999Rice 42, TCU 21
1998Rice 14, TCU 12
1997Rice 38, TCU 19
1996Rice 30, TCU 17
1995TCU 33, Rice 28

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