Texas at Rice

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 28, 1946, page 14

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  Triumph Over Texas Makes Rice S NeeIy Top-Notch Prophet HOUSTON, Tex, Oct. 28.-The only time within the knowledge of the sports writer’s that taciturn Jess Nicely ever issued an optimistic statement about his football squad came last September. IT will have the greatest team I ever coached” the tall Rice mentor said. He tempered 1t with, But everybody else is going to have a great team. too” Yet the fact that silent Jess went that far-and the knowledge that he has had some mighty fine elevems in “a years of coaching-should have cushioned the boys for what happened Saturday when Rice out played mighty Texas, the team they all picked not only to win the Southwest Conference champion ship but to go through undefeated. Rice beat Texas, 1913, and even Texas adherents admitted it was an artistic trouncing. Nicely has been doing things with football predictions in the South west ever since 1910. when he was hired as Rice coach after his Glenn son team defeated Boston College In the Cotton Bowl. Whether he had good material or not Jess fashioned ground game that became the terror of the conference. He might be beaten badly in September, but down the stretch he always had a team that either was ranked as the best or as good ‘as any eleven in the league. Neely is one coach who hasn’t been on the spot in this conference, although he hasn’t won cham pionsbip. In 1943. when he had his worst sseason, winning only three games and losing to Texas, $50, Rice trustees voted him a new contract of five years-and that before his first contract had expired. Jess reticence usually is the despair of the sports writer’s. He tells them to just figure out for themselves what his team will do. Thus it was something of shock this year when he said he would have his greatest team.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 28, 1946, page 1

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  RICE OWLS TAKE SOUTHWEST LEAD Victory Over Mighty Texas Longhorns Puts Eleven In Drivers Seat DALLAS, Tex, Oct. 27-(P-The wreckage of Texas hopes clutter a trail of gridiron upsets in the Southwest conference as the Rice Owls swagger to the favored spot in a race typical of this sections breed of teams. Texas, the even icy said vas destined for a national niche, fell Saturday and the crash rocked the staid university to its found atoms. Jess Neeley’s Rice Owls, who didn’t take any stock in what they read in the papers, outplayed the Longhorns for an 1913 victory, leaving the conference without an undefeated team over the season route and trimming the unbeaten to two in the title ace. And as Rice punctured Texas dreams, the Texas Agoies roared mighty down the comeback trail A. and NJ, whici. couldn’t bea’ anybody three weeks ago, pushed Bayloa’s Bears into oblivion 17-( as a new star was born. All the Aggies needed was c passer and they found one Satur day. He was Burly Batty. a fresh man star of 1912 who went through a lot of combat in World War II ano returned to Aggieland this yeal to see little .erv’”o because o an injury-that is, until Saturday Then Batty got his chance and h, delivered with nine pass com pletions for IS yards that brough the Aggies two touchdowAs. Rice and A. and M. now leat the conference with two touch downs apiece.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 28, 1946, page 3 (results column)

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  SrRo LOOT BALI. z SCORES Here are final scores of scme oi the leading football games played over the weekend. Washington 20; California 6. oregon 26; Idaho 13. USC 28: Stanford 90 oregon State E; Washington State r. Northwestern 26; College of Pa ciflc l3. UCLA 93; Santa Clara T. Penn State 6; Colgate 2. Bucknel %; Lafayette 0. Boston IA; Brown 14, tie Rice 18; Texas 13. Tulsa 56; Kansas O. West Virginia l3; Syracuse 0. Utah 27, WyCmins ‘. Texas Tech q; Denver {. North Carolina 40 Florida l9. Mississippi State l4, Tulane [. Rutgers 25; Washington 13. Mississippi 9; Arkansas T. Cincinnati 18, Michigan 7 Indiana 27; Nebraska I. Alabama 2t Kentucky r. Texas A8,M l7, Baylor 0, Louisiana State IA; Vanderbilt 0 -- SUNDAY GAMES Ge0rgetcWn 13; St. Louis T. Niagara 14; John Carroll G. St Marys 13 Nevada 12 St. Ambrose fl; St. Joseph’s Gn- diana) z

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Texas leads 75–⁠21–⁠1 in 97 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.