Texas Tech at Rice

• 

  Evening star, October 30, 1960, page 75

  Read the text

  .OwIs Defect Texas Tech, :EeudLeoque HOUSTON, Tex, Oct. 2s : tAP).-Jerry Gambler, an 1S8pound sophomore. scored 2 touchdowns today as Rice’s bail controlling Owls took over , the Southwest Conference lead by trouncing Texas Techs Red , Raiders, 30–⁠6. Combined with Baylor’S loss to. Texas Christian. the victory left Rice the only undefeated team in conference play. Rice, the conference leader on total offense, exploded for : IS points in the second period . and added second half touch downs on a 41-yard punt return by Butch Blurne and a r 20-yard Scamper by Gambler , after a screen pass from Ran : dali Kerbow. . The Rice defense, meanwhiN, . held Tech without a first down : until 10 minutes into the third : quarter. The Raiders did not : get. a sustained drive under : way until the final quarter : when the passes Of Johnny . Lovelace sparked a 71-yard . drive. /. Lovelace carried over from the l after throwing foul passes that totaled 63 yards Rice’s second period explo- sion saw Max Webb climax 8 65-yard drive by carrying ovel from. the l and Gambler score from the 3 after the Owls hao recovered a tumble on the Tech e25. IN between the two touch. downs Webb kicked a 33-yaro field goal after a Rice threat -Sputtered at the Tech 16. TEXAS TECH 80 o o g. RAGE ------------- 16 7–⁠3( .-Eiee-Webb /. run (kick faiIed). SRloe-FG, Webb SO. Riee-Candler 3, run (Webb, kick). pRtee-7Blume Al, punt return .(Blume Tecb-Lovelace /, run (run failed). -Rtce-Candler 20, pass from Kerbov .~tCandler, kick. Attendance, $4,000.

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.

Texas Tech leads 27–⁠20–⁠1 in 48 meetings, counting the 37 since this game.