Rice at UCLA

Saturday, October 11, 1952

No. 11 UCLA beat Rice 20–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, UCLA led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayRice5–⁠5 in 1952
0
Home11UCLA8–⁠1 in 1952
20

FinalHigh 78°F, low 54°FAttendance 30,926

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 12, 1952, page 68

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    LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11.-Teddy Marleski. who connected with two touchdown strikes. combined with b superb UCLA defensive wreckine srew today to shoot down the Rice Owls by a 20 to 0 score in an in ersectional football game. Tiny Ted. 155-pound tailback sent UCLA into a 1870 lead at thu half with two touchdown throws one for IL yards to Ernie Stock ert, giant right end. the other fol IA yards to Ike Jones, opposite end. The win was the fourth straigh this season for Coach Red Sanders Bruins. and their second over { Southwest Conference invader Two weeks ago UCLA shut ou Texas Christian, 1910. A crowd of 30.926 watched tn,

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.

On the newsreel

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Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

UCLA 72% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

UCLA leads 5–⁠0 in five meetings, counting the four since this game.

Recent meetings
2012UCLA 49, Rice 24
2006UCLA 26, Rice 16
2005UCLA 63, Rice 21
1966UCLA 27, Rice 24
1952UCLA 20, Rice 0

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