Rice at UCLA
Saturday, October 11, 1952 Share
No. 11 UCLA beat Rice 20–0. It was their first meeting; after it, UCLA led the series 1–0.
FinalHigh 78°F, low 54°FAttendance 30,926
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 12, 1952, page 68
Read the text
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
- FOOTBALL — UCLA-RICESub Teddy Narleski is secret weapon as the Bruins out-pass the Owls and take the game, 20-0
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
UCLA 72% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Rice–UCLA gameUCLA leads 5–0 in five meetings, counting the four since this game.
| 2012 | UCLA 49, Rice 24 | |
| 2006 | UCLA 26, Rice 16 | |
| 2005 | UCLA 63, Rice 21 | |
| 1966 | UCLA 27, Rice 24 | |
| 1952 | UCLA 20, Rice 0 |
Around this game
Rice
- Next gamevs. SMUOct. 18, 1952
- SeasonRice in 1952
- ProgramRice history and records
UCLA
- Next gamevs. StanfordOct. 18, 1952
- SeasonUCLA in 1952
- ProgramUCLA history and records

