TCU at Rice

Saturday, November 22, 1952

Rice beat TCU 12–⁠6. It was their 31st meeting; after it, TCU led the series 17–⁠11–⁠3.

AwayTCU4–⁠4–⁠2 in 1952
6
HomeRice5–⁠5 in 1952
12

FinalHigh 69°F, low 48°FAttendance 30,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Two Blocked Punts Help Rice Defeat Texas Christian, 1915

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 23, 1952, page 65

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    Two Blocked Punts Help Rice Defeat Texas Christian, 1915 one that broke 6–⁠6 deadlock was the first aerial attempted in the young varsity career of Atchley Proctor, sophomore quarterback. Junior Quarterback Leroy Fen stemaker hit Day for the first touchdown. Fenstemaker injured an ankle in the second period to give Proc tor his chance. He tossed once to Day for the winning score. Day had set the T. D. up by blocking a punt. John Hudson broke through to block the other punt in the first period. Texas Christian --------6 0 0 o. Rice A A q O-Io

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)

TCU 52% to win. Rice won as Elo’s underdog.

TCU leads 41–⁠35–⁠3 in 79 meetings, counting the 48 since this game.

Recent meetings
2000TCU 37, Rice 0
1999Rice 42, TCU 21
1998Rice 14, TCU 12
1997Rice 38, TCU 19
1996Rice 30, TCU 17
1995TCU 33, Rice 28

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