Texas at Rice

Saturday, October 25, 1952

No. 20 Texas beat Rice 20–⁠7. It was their 39th meeting; after it, Texas led the series 25–⁠14.

Away20Texas9–⁠2 in 1952
20
HomeRice5–⁠5 in 1952
7

FinalHigh 82°F, low 53°FAttendance 66,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 26, 1952, page 71

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    HOUSTON, Oct. 25. - Texas slammed over three first-half touchdowns today, then dug in to beat Rice. 20–⁠7. Dick Ochoa, Glib Dawson, Larry Graham and Billy Quinn led the .Longhorns on a rampage for two periods, but it was the Steers defensive team that really sealed Rice’s fourth straight defeat, stopping the Owls on Texas 25, 5 and 6 yard lines in a second half dominated by the suddenly surging Owls. 1t took Texas almost a full quarter to get its first touchdown, but then the Steers drove “a yards in 10 plays with Dawson scoring from the 3, then adding the first of two extra points he booted. Quinn boosted the margin another touchdown when he smashed over from the l on the first play of the second period to climax 38-yard drive. Rice then thrilled the near capacity crowd of $4,000 by marching 73 yards for a touch down of its own, Billy Ed Daniels going the last IL in an explosive run through the middle of Texas team after a short pass from Dan

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 61% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Texas leads 75–⁠21–⁠1 in 97 meetings, counting the 58 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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