Arkansas at Rice
Saturday, November 5, 1949 Share
No. 8 Rice beat Arkansas 14–0. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Rice led the series 18–5–2.
FinalHigh 78°F, low 52°FAttendance 26,000
In the newspapers
Evening star, November 6, 1949, page 42
Read the text
Rice Sputters to 14–0 Victory Over Arkansas HOUSTON, Tex, Nov. 5.-Rice’ S Owls fumbled and sputtered today but settled down for two long drives and a IA to 0 victory over Arkansas Combined with Texas defeat OF Baylor, the victory gave Rice undisputed possession of first place in the Southwest Conference standings. ..... End James (Froggie) Williams took first and fourth period touchdown passes from Quarter backs Tobin Rote and Vernon Glass and then kicked both extra points to account for all the scorino
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 75% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Arkansas–Rice gameArkansas leads 36–29–3 in 68 meetings, counting the 43 since this game.
| 2021 | Arkansas 38, Rice 17 | |
| 1991 | Arkansas 20, Rice 0 | |
| 1990 | Rice 19, Arkansas 11 | |
| 1989 | Arkansas 38, Rice 17 | |
| 1988 | Arkansas 21, Rice 14 | |
| 1987 | Arkansas 38, Rice 14 |
Around this game
Arkansas
- Next gameat SMUNov. 12, 1949
- SeasonArkansas in 1949
- ProgramArkansas history and records
Rice
- Next gamevs. Texas A&MNov. 12, 1949
- SeasonRice in 1949
- ProgramRice history and records