Rice at Baylor
Saturday, November 27, 1954 Share
Rice beat No. 9 Baylor 20–14. It was their 35th meeting; after it, Rice led the series 17–16–2.
FinalHigh 69°F, low 45°FAttendance 24,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, November 29, 1954, page 22 (results column)
Read the text
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.
The series
Every Rice–Baylor gameBaylor leads 50–30–2 in 82 meetings, counting the 47 since this game.
| 2019 | Baylor 21, Rice 13 | |
| 2016 | Baylor 38, Rice 10 | |
| 2015 | Baylor 70, Rice 17 | |
| 2011 | Baylor 56, Rice 31 | |
| 2010 | Baylor 30, Rice 13 | |
| 2007 | Baylor 42, Rice 17 |
Around this game
Rice
- Next gamevs. AlabamaSept. 24, 1955
- SeasonRice in 1954
- ProgramRice history and records
Baylor
- Next gamevs. AuburnDec. 31, 1954, Gator Bowl
- SeasonBaylor in 1954
- ProgramBaylor history and records

