Rice at Baylor

Saturday, November 27, 1954

Rice beat No. 9 Baylor 20–⁠14. It was their 35th meeting; after it, Rice led the series 17–⁠16–⁠2.

AwayRice7–⁠3 in 1954
20
Home9Baylor7–⁠4 in 1954
14

FinalHigh 69°F, low 45°FAttendance 24,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Saturdays Stqrs

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 29, 1954, page 22 (results column)

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    Saturdays Stqrs George Welsh, Navy – Threw three touchdown passes and scored a touchdown as Navy defeated Army, 27–⁠20, and accepted a bid to play in the Sugar Bowl. Dick M0egle, Rice-Scored two touchdowns, one on 91-yard punt return, and gained 1876 yards in the Owls 20–⁠14 VIC tory over Baylor. Gene Calame, Oklahoma–Scored twice as the Sooners completed an undefeated season by beat ing Oklahoma A g. M, 1870. Bob Pascal, Duke-Scored three touchdowns in 47–⁠12 trouncing of North Carolina. Jim Morse, Notre Dame Scored two touchdowns, one a 72-yard run with six minutes remain ing, to give the Irish a 23–⁠17 victory over Southern Cali fornia. Win Turner, Louisiana State Passed for two touchdowns to lead the Tigers to q 1918 triumpil over Tulane. Tom Magnarelli, Boston College Scored four touchdowns as he led the Purple Eagles to a 31–⁠13 victory over Holy Cross, Bobby Freeman, Auburn-Scored three touchdowns and gained 16O yards as Auburn crushed Alabama, 28–⁠0. Art Luppin0, Arizona Scored three touchdoWns to make him the highest scorer in major college football in “a year. with 166 points: also picked ur 154 yards in rushing to top tht Nation flor the season witt l.359. \

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)

Baylor 63% to win. Rice pulled the upset.

Baylor leads 50–⁠30–⁠2 in 82 meetings, counting the 47 since this game.

Recent meetings
2019Baylor 21, Rice 13
2016Baylor 38, Rice 10
2015Baylor 70, Rice 17
2011Baylor 56, Rice 31
2010Baylor 30, Rice 13
2007Baylor 42, Rice 17

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