Rice at Arkansas
Saturday, November 6, 1954 Share
No. 4 Arkansas beat No. 15 Rice 28–15. It was their 30th meeting; after it, Rice led the series 22–6–2.
FinalHigh 70°F, low 42°FAttendance 38,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, November 7, 1954, page 62
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Arkansas Rallies to Beat Rice, 28–15, and Near Title LITTLE ROCK. Ark, Nov. g. Arkansas undefeated Razorbacks drove to two final quarter touch downs to come from behind and smother the Rice Owls, 28- Is, for their seventh straight football conquest of the season. The victory put the Porkers in the position of needing no more than a tie with Southern Meth odist next Saturday to win their first clear-cut Southwest Conference title since 1886. While $4,000 looked on in War Memorial Stadium here, the Razorbacks’ Henry Moore riddled the Rice line and sophomore Tailback George Walker passed with perfection to give the Razerbacks an eight-game winning streak, starting with the final game of the 1853 season. Rice had appeared to be unstoppable on the ground. where Dicky Moegle, undoubtedly the best running back Arkansas has faced all year, and a bevy of
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)
Arkansas 55% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Rice–Arkansas gameArkansas leads 36–29–3 in 68 meetings, counting the 38 since this game.
| 2021 | Arkansas 38, Rice 17 | |
| 1991 | Arkansas 20, Rice 0 | |
| 1990 | Rice 19, Arkansas 11 | |
| 1989 | Arkansas 38, Rice 17 | |
| 1988 | Arkansas 21, Rice 14 | |
| 1987 | Arkansas 38, Rice 14 |
Around this game
Rice
- Next gameat Texas A&MNov. 13, 1954
- SeasonRice in 1954
- ProgramRice history and records
Arkansas
- Next gamevs. SMUNov. 13, 1954
- SeasonArkansas in 1954
- ProgramArkansas history and records

