Texas at Rice

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 24, 1948, page 40

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  Texas Blasts Rice In Biq Last Half HOUSTON, Tex. Oct. 23.- Texas sputtered against rugged defense for two periods today then struck for three last-half touchdowns to defeat Rice. 20–⁠7. It was Texas second South west Conference victory and Rice’s second loss. An overflow crowd of $4,000 saw Rice push the favored Long horns around for a half and take TO lead before Texas started moving on the ground and in the air midway OF the third period. A 53-yard drive knotted the score at TT. And In the final six minutes the Longhorns stormed to two touchdowns. One was on a 7S-yard pass play, from Paul Campbell to Byron Gil1ory. The other came after a 40-yard run by Ray Borneman. He slaShed over from the /.

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.

Texas leads 75–⁠21–⁠1 in 97 meetings, counting the 62 since this game.