Centenary (LA) vs. Rice

Centenary (LA) and Rice first met in 1927 and have played 4 times; Rice leads the series 3–⁠1. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Rice 3–⁠1, and Rice has won the last 3.

Centenary (LA) wins
1
Rice wins
3
Ties
0
First meeting
1927
Longest streak
3 Rice
Current streak
3 Rice
Last 10 meetings
Rice 3–⁠1
Most recent
1941

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s1–⁠0
1930s0–⁠1
1940s0–⁠2
Average margin
29.5 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Rice
3–⁠1 Rice’s record at home
Shutouts
3

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Centenary (LA) and Rice, 1927 on1300150017001930193519401945

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current's story of the 1927 game: Rice Trimmed By Centenary 1871

    1927 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Nov 6, 1927

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Nov 1, 1941Rice 54, Centenary (LA) 0at Rice
Oct 5, 1940Rice 25, Centenary (LA) 0at Rice
Oct 7, 1939Rice 13, Centenary (LA) 0at Rice
Nov 5, 1927Centenary (LA) 33, Rice 7at Rice

Every game is listed as played on the field.