Rice at Cornell
Saturday, October 3, 1953 Share
No. 14 Rice beat Cornell 28–7. It was their first meeting; after it, Rice led the series 1–0.
FinalHigh 78°F, low 41°FAttendance 22,000
In the newspapers
Evening star, District of Columbia, October 4, 1953, page 65
Read the text
Powerful Rice Institute Rolls To 28–7 Win Over Cornell and little Horton Nesrsta scooted around left end for the fourth tally 10 minutes later. Fenstemaker made good all conversions. Cornell. held at bay during the first quarter by the hard-charging Rice line, scored in the sec ond period with Guy Bedrossian bulling across from the two. Rice – z 14–2S Rice scoring: Touchdowns – Fenstemaker, Stone. Johnson. Nesrsta. Conversions-Fenstemake 90. Cornell scoring: Touchdowns – Bed rpsSian. ConverSions-Degraf
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)
Cornell 51% to win. Rice won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Rice–Cornell gameRice leads 2–0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 1954 | Rice 41, Cornell 20 | |
| 1953 | Rice 28, Cornell 7 |
Around this game
Rice
- Next gamevs. Hardin SimmonsOct. 10, 1953
- SeasonRice in 1953
- ProgramRice history and records
Cornell
- Next gameat NavyOct. 10, 1953
- SeasonCornell in 1953
- ProgramCornell history and records