Texas Tech at Rice

Saturday, October 29, 1949

No. 5 Rice beat Texas Tech 28–⁠0. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Rice led the series 7–⁠1.

AwayTexas Tech7–⁠5 in 1949
0
Home5Rice10–⁠1 in 1949
28

FinalHigh 72°F, low 56°FAttendance 18,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 31, 1949, page 2

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    three touchdowns, scored one on 13- yard run, rushed for 64 yards and kicked four extra points in $40 win over Richmond last Saturday. Gil Bocetti, Washington and Lee Gained $40 yards, 175 rushing, 165 passing. Scored three times and passed 39 yards for fourth I’D m 53–⁠0 victory over Davidson. Lynn Chandnois, Michigan State Played only 24 minutes in States CHA rout of Temple but scored twice on 57 and 70 yard runs. Averaged Ills yards per try. Doak Walker, Southern Metho- dist-Returned to play after being out 10 days with flu to kick extra roint that beat Texas, 7–⁠6. Bobby Lantrip, Rice-Rolled up l42 yards on 19 runs and scored twice in 28–⁠0 victory over Texas Tech.

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 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Texas Tech leads 27–⁠20–⁠1 in 48 meetings, counting the 40 since this game.

Recent meetings
2009Texas Tech 55, Rice 10
2007Texas Tech 59, Rice 24
1995Texas Tech 31, Rice 26
1994Rice 24, Texas Tech 21
1993Texas Tech 45, Rice 16
1992Rice 34, Texas Tech 3

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