Rice at SMU

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  Evening star, October 21, 1951, page 38

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  DALLAS, Oct. 20.-A slashing Rice football team, showing even the great Fred Benners something brilliant in passing game, sound ly trounced Southern Methodist tonight, 28–⁠7. 1t was Dan Drake who stole the thunder of Benners, conqueror OF Notre Dame a week ago, and routed the Mustangs. He uncorked three sparkling touchdown aerials to sew up the game for the Owls. 1t was considered an upset in many quarters-certainly the size of the margin was unexpected. Bill HoWton, left end, gathered in all three of brakes scoring heaves. Rice also displayed a solid run ing game that the Mustangs couldn’t match. David (Koose) johnson, weighing in at only 1T ounds, crashed consistently through the SMU forward wall, once going all the way to the score from % yards out. Benners looked as if he might come back with his old passing skill at time. but he never could hit pay dirt. The Owls were pounding him hard and he did not play all the time SMU had the ball. At least twice he was in jured. finally leaving the game for keeps midway of the final period 20 In the first quarter, it appeared for a time that Jerry Norton’s

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 22, 1951, page 3 (results column)

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  Stars of Football Football stars of the week are: Ollie Matson, San Francisco – Scored three touchdowns, two on runs of 94 and 90 yards in beating Fordham, 32–⁠26. Chet Cornog, Pennsylvania – Set up three touchdowns and passed for fourth, gained 126 yards rushing in 28–⁠13 victory over Columbia. Mitch Price, Columbia>- Broke three Columbia passing records by completing 23 of 40 passes for 27l yards against Penn. Frank Clifford, Southern Califor- mia = Scored touchdown on 69-yard run, threw touchdown pass and kicked three extra points in upset 21–⁠14 win over California. Ray McKown, Texas Christian = Scored two touchdowns. set up an- other in 20–⁠14 victory over Texas A. and M. Larry Isbell, Baylor Completed 13 of Is passes, two for touchdowns, and scored a third touchdown in 40–⁠20 win over Texas Tech. Dan Drake, Rice Completed four of eight passes for 142 yards and three touchdowns in 28–⁠7 vic- tory, over Southern Methodist. Buck McPhail, Oklahoma – Gained 215 yards in 20 carries for new Oklahoma individual yardage record in 33–⁠2l win over Kansas. Babe Parilli, Kentucky = Passed for four touchdowns in 35–⁠13 vic- tory over Villanova.

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.

SMU leads 49–⁠41–⁠1 in 91 meetings, counting the 60 since this game.