Navy at Rice

Saturday, October 13, 1951

Rice beat Navy 21–⁠14. It was their first meeting; after it, Rice led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayNavy2–⁠6–⁠1 in 1951
14
HomeRice5–⁠5 in 1951
21

FinalHigh 78°F, low 62°FAttendance 58,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Navy to Rice 24 sU Passes Beat Notre Dame 272o Bulldogs Suffer Worst Defeat in Last I Years Terps Score in Every Quarter; Mighty No Leeds in Yordoge

    Evening star, October 14, 1951, page 46

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    Navy to Rice 24 sU Passes Beat Notre Dame 272o Bulldogs Suffer Worst Defeat in Last I Years Terps Score in Every Quarter; Mighty No Leeds in Yordoge Continued From First Page.) lerton. Two touchdowns were made by the Speedy Chet Hanulak. Bob Ward, playing before many of the South’s most influential sports writer’s, made a further move towards second All-America bid with an outstanding performance both on offenSe. and defense, but he had great help. Dick ModZelewski gave an in spring performance at tackle, ably

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 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Tied 7–⁠7 in 14 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Navy 21, Rice 13
2024Rice 24, Navy 10
2009Navy 63, Rice 14
2005Navy 41, Rice 9
2004Navy 14, Rice 13
2003Navy 38, Rice 6

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