Rice at Texas

Saturday, October 27, 1951

No. 10 Texas beat Rice 14–⁠6. It was their 38th meeting; after it, Texas led the series 24–⁠14.

AwayRice5–⁠5 in 1951
6
Home10Texas7–⁠3 in 1951
14

FinalHigh 85°F, low 65°FAttendance 50,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Texas Defeats Rice, 14-6, After Fumb|es Almost Lose Game

    Evening star, October 28, 1951, page 42

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    Texas Defeats Rice, 14–⁠6, After Fumb|es Almost Lose Game AUSTIN, Tex, Oct, 27.-The Texas Longhorns sputteered, fun. bled and almost gave the game away in the first half, but finall, unleashed q passing attack Il whip Rice. IA to 6. today. Left Half Glib Dawson, who rar his legs off to no avail in the frs two quarters. took an 8-yard pas across the goal from the hand oI running mate Don Barton for thu tying touchdown. June Davi! kicked the extra point to insure victory just four minutes shy Of the end of the third quarter. Rice had gone ahead, 60, ir the second quarter on a 73-yarc drive with Teddy Riggs doine most Of the gaining. Riggs car. ried five times for Al yards ans caught an 11-yard pass from Buddy Grantham to put the bal on the three. Bill Burkhaltel slashed over. Bill Wright’s con. version attempt was wide. Texas sewed up the game IL the final quarter with a 75-yare march, spanked by Jimmy Pace PAGES passing and runnin, brought the ball to the one. ant Pace carried it over himself. Rice O6O o. 1exas Il Rice scoring: Touchdown, BurkhalteI Texas scoring: Touchdowns, Dawson. Pace ConYersions, Davis l2l

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)

Texas 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Texas leads 75–⁠21–⁠1 in 97 meetings, counting the 59 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Texas 37, Rice 10
2021Texas 58, Rice 0
2019Texas 48, Rice 13
2015Texas 42, Rice 28
2011Texas 34, Rice 9
2010Texas 34, Rice 17

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