Florida at Rice
Saturday, September 19, 1953 Share
Rice beat Florida 20–16. It was their first meeting; after it, Rice led the series 1–0.
FinalHigh 93°F, low 74°FAttendance 55,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, September 21, 1953, page 21 (results column)
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Saturdays Sturs Aramis Dandoy, Southern Cal ifornia halfback – scored two touchdowns, one on a 91-yard run, and set up two more with passes as the Trojans defeated Washington State, 29–13. Cotton Davidson, Baylor quarterback-scored twice and directed his teams $50 victory over California while playing 591a minutes. Homer jenkins, Colorado tall back-passed for one score and engineered another as Colorado upset Washington, 21–20. Zeke Bratkowski, Georgia quarterback-connected on 10 of 16 passes for ITS yards and directed a vicious ground at tack in a 32–19 victory over VIII lanova. Don Ellis, Texas AIM half back-scored the Aggies’ touch down in a 7–6 triumph over Ken lucky. Al Doggett, Louisiana State quarterback-paced a smooth functioning team which stunned Texas, 20–7. Dick Moegle, Rice halfbackgained 81 yards rushing and scored, all three Owl touchdowns in a 20–16 triumph over Florida. | Ray McKown, Texas Christian quarterback-scored one of two touchdowns and punted for a 48.3-yard average in a 1870 decision over”Kansas. Worth Lutz, Duke quarterback set up all three Blue Devil touchdowns with passes as Duke stopped South Carolina 20–7. L. Quinby Hines, William and Mary-kicked a field goal and added one extra point to provide margin of 1914 victory over Wake Forest. Jack Patera, Oregon guard recovered a Nebraska tumble to set up the touchdown which got the Ducks off to a fast start in 20–12 win. Roy Ottosom, College of Pa cif1c quarterback-sparked team to a 1920 triumph over Stan ford, scoring once himself.
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)
Florida 51% to win. Rice won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Florida–Rice gameRice leads 4–3–1 in eight meetings, counting the seven since this game.
| 1977 | Florida 48, Rice 3 | |
| 1976 | Florida 50, Rice 22 | |
| 1961 | Rice 19, Florida 10 | |
| 1960 | Rice 10, Florida 0 | |
| 1959 | Florida 13, Rice 13 | |
| 1956 | Florida 7, Rice 0 |
Around this game
Florida
- Next gamevs. Georgia TechSept. 26, 1953
- SeasonFlorida in 1953
- ProgramFlorida history and records
Rice
- Next gameat CornellOct. 3, 1953
- SeasonRice in 1953
- ProgramRice history and records

