| Rice Owls football | |||
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| First season | 1912 | ||
| Athletic director | Rick Greenspan | ||
| Head coach | David Bailiff 4th year, 30–44 (.405) |
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| Home stadium | Rice Stadium | ||
| Year built | 1950 | ||
| Stadium capacity | 47,000 | ||
| Stadium surface | FieldTurf | ||
| Location | Houston, Texas, USA | ||
| League | NCAA Division I FBS | ||
| Conference | Conference USA | ||
| Division | West | ||
| Past conferences | Southwest (1915-1995) WAC (1996-2004) |
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| All-time record | 428–548–32 (.440) | ||
| Postseason bowl record | 6–4 | ||
| Conference titles | 7 | ||
| Consensus All-Americans | 6 | ||
| Colors |
Blue and Gray |
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| Fight song | Rice Fight | ||
| Mascot | Sammy the Owl | ||
| Marching band | Marching Owl Band | ||
| Website | www.riceowls.com | ||
The Rice Owls football team represents Rice University in NCAA Division I college football. The Owls have competed in Conference USA's Western Division since 2005. Rice Stadium, built in 1950, hosts the Owls' home football games.
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Venue [edit]
Rice Stadium was built in 1950, and has been the home of Owls football ever since. It hosted the NFL Super Bowl on January 1974. It replaced the old Rice Field (now Rice Track/Soccer Stadium) to increase seating. Total seating capacity in the current stadium was reduced from 70,000 to 47,000 before the 2006 season. The endzone seating benches were removed and covered with tarps, and all of the wooden bleachers were replaced with new, metal seating benches in 2006, as well.
History [edit]
1954 Cotton Bowl Classic [edit]
The Owls played in the eighteenth Cotton Bowl Classic against the Crimson Tide of Alabama. The game featured one of the most famous plays in college football history[1] when Rice's Dickey Moegle (later Maegle) burst free on a sweep play, and on his way down the sideline, was tackled by Tommy Lewis, who had come off the Alabama sideline without his helmet to tackle Moegle. Referee Cliff Shaw saw Lewis come off the bench and gave the Owls the 95 yard touchdown. Rice would win the game 28-6, with the only Crimson Tide score coming from Lewis. The yardage added to Moegle's 265 yards rushing, a Cotton Bowl Classic record that would stand until Tony Temple's effort in 2008. This would be the Owls' last bowl win until the 2008 Texas Bowl, a win which also secured the Owls their first 10-win season since 1949.[2]
Kennedy Speech [edit]
Rice Stadium also hosted a speech by John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1962. In it, he used the Rice football team to challenge America to send a man to the moon.
- But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Coaching history [edit]
| Name | Seasons | Overall | Overall % | Bowls | Bowls % |
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| David Bailiff | 2007–present | 30–44 | 40.5% | 2–0 | 100% |
| Todd Graham | 2006 | 7–6 | 53.8% | 0–1 | 0.0% |
| Ken Hatfield | 1994–2005 | 55–78–1 | 41.0% | -- | -- |
| Fred Goldsmith | 1989-93 | 23–31–1 | 42.7% | -- | -- |
| Jerry Berndt | 1986-88 | 6–27–0 | 18.2% | -- | -- |
| Watson Brown | 1984-85 | 4–18–0 | 18.2% | -- | -- |
| Ray Alborn | 1978-83 | 13–53–0 | 19.7% | -- | -- |
| Homer Rice | 1976-77 | 4–18–0 | 18.2% | -- | -- |
| Al Conover | 1972-75 | 14–28–2 | 34.1% | -- | -- |
| Bill Peterson | 1971 | 3–7–1 | 31.8% | -- | -- |
| Bo Hagan | 1967-70 | 12–27–1 | 31.3% | -- | -- |
| Jess Neely | 1940-66 | 144–124–10 | 53.6% | 3–3–0 | 50.0% |
| Jimmy Kitts | 1934-39 | 33–29–4 | 53.0% | 1–0–0 | 100.0% |
| Jack Meagher | 1929-33 | 26–26–0 | 50.0% | -- | -- |
| Claude Rothgeb | 1928 | 2–7–0 | 22.2% | -- | -- |
| John Heisman | 1924-27 | 14–18–3 | 44.3% | -- | -- |
| John Anderson | 1918 | 1–5–1 | 21.4% | -- | -- |
| Phillip Arbuckle | 1912-17,'19-23 | 51–25–8 | 65.5% | -- | -- |
Conference Championships [edit]
Southwest Conference: 1934, 1937, 1946*, 1949, 1953*, 1957, 1994*
- shared
Rice Bowl Game History [edit]
| Bowl Game History | Result |
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| 1938 Cotton Bowl Classic | W, Rice 28 Colorado 14 |
| 1947 Orange Bowl | W, Rice 8 Tennessee 0 |
| 1950 Cotton Bowl Classic | W, Rice 27 North Carolina 13 |
| 1954 Cotton Bowl Classic | W, Rice 28 Alabama 6 |
| 1958 Cotton Bowl Classic | L, Rice 7 Navy 20 |
| 1961 Sugar Bowl | L, Rice 6 Ole Miss 14 |
| 1961 Bluebonnet Bowl | L, Rice 7 Kansas 33 |
| 2006 New Orleans Bowl | L, Rice 17 Troy 41 |
| 2008 Texas Bowl | W, Rice 38 Western Michigan 14 |
| 2012 Armed Forces Bowl Bowl | W, Rice 33 Air Force 14 |
Rivalries [edit]
SMU [edit]
Rice and SMU have been in the same conference with each other since the 1910s and have played each other 88 times as of 2010 with SMU leading the series 47-40-1. The rivalry is due to the fact that Rice and SMU were two of four private schools in the old Southwest Conference (Baylor and TCU were the others). Rice and SMU were the two smallest schools in the conference, were located in the two largest cities of any teams in the conference and have historically been considered the two best private universities in Texas.
| Games played | First meeting | Last meeting | RICE win | RICE loss | Ties | Win % |
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| 88 | November 17, 1916 (Won 146–3) | November 17, 2012 (Won 36–14) [1] | 41 | 48 | 1 | 45.5% |
Houston [edit]
Rice participates in a crosstown rivalry with Houston. UH and Rice play annually for the Bayou Bucket, a weathered bucket found by former Rice guard Fred Curry at an antique shop. Curry had it designed into a trophy for $310. The two universities are separated by five miles in Houston. The Cougars lead the series 24-10, with Rice snapping a 3 game losing streak in 2008.
| Games played | First meeting | Last meeting | RICE win | RICE loss | Ties | Win % |
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| 34 | September 11, 1971 (lost 21–23) | September 29, 2012 (lost 14–35) [2] | 10 | 27 | 0 | 29.4% |
Texas [edit]
Rice and Texas have maintained a one-sided rivalry beginning in the early days of the Southwest Conference. Texas' 28 consecutive victories from 1966–1993 represents the sixth longest single-opponent winning streak in college football history. In 1994, in a nationally televised ESPN game, Rice scored a major upset win over Texas, but since then Texas has resumed series dominance. Despite the dissolution of the Southwest Conference, Texas and Rice still play on a "near annual" basis. Texas is a public university that enrolls 50,201 total students (5th largest in the US as of 2007) and over 37,000 undergraduates. Rice is a private university and enrolls 3,051 undergraduates.
| Games played | First meeting | Last meeting | Rice win | Rice loss | Ties | Win % |
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| 103 | October 17, 1914 (lost 0–41) | September 3, 2011 (lost 34–9) | 21 | 71 | 1 | 18.8% |
College Football Hall of Fame [edit]
| Name | Position | Years | Inducted | Notes |
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| Buddy Dial | End | 1956-1958 | 1993 | was his team’s co-captain, Most Valuable Player, and was consensus All-America |
| John Heisman | Coach | 1892-1927 | 1954 | Inducted for his career as a coach at Oberlin, Akron, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Pennsylvania, Washington & Jefferson, Rice |
| Weldon Humble | Guard | 1941-1943, 1946 | 1961 | He was a consensus All- America choice. Like most athletes of his time, Weldon was required to suspend his career for military service during World War II. |
| Dick Maegle | Halfback | 1952-1954 | 1979 | He was consensus All-America and academic All-America in 1954 |
| Jess Neely | Coach | 1924-1966 | 1971 | Inducted for his career as a coach at Rhodes, Clemson, Rice |
| Bill Wallace | Halfback | 1932, 1934-1935 | 1978 | Wallace was Rice's initial first team All-America selection |
| James "Froggy" Williams | End | 1946-1949 | 1965 | a consensus All-American and was also selected to the Cotton Bowl’s All-Decade team for the 1950s |
Rice All-Americans [edit]
| Name | Position | All-America |
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| Bill Wallace | B | 1934 |
| H.J. Nichols | G | 1944 |
| Weldon Humble | G | 1946 |
| Froggy Williams | E | 1949 |
| Joe Watson | C | 1949 |
| Bill Howto | E | 1951 |
| John Hudson | T | 1953 |
| Kosse Johnson | B | 1953 |
| Dicky Maegle | HB | 1954 |
| King Hill | QB | 1957 |
| Buddy Dial | E | 1958 |
| Malcom Walker | C | 1964 |
| Tommy Kramer | QB | 1976 |
| Steve Kidd | P | 1985 |
| Trevor Cobb | HB | 1991;1992 |
| Charles Torello | OG | 1997 |
| Jarett Dillard | WR | 2006;2008 |
| Kyle Martens | P | 2010 |
Future non-conference opponents [edit]
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
| 1 | at Texas A&M | at Notre Dame | at Texas | Baylor | Northwestern** | Northwestern** | Baylor |
| 2 | Kansas | at Army | at Baylor | Stanford** | Stanford** | Louisiana Tech | |
| 3 | vs Houston | Army | |||||
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**Site to be determined[3]
References [edit]
- ^ Dickey Moegle in the 1954 Cotton Bowl Classic. Article. Retrieved on December 29, 2008.
- ^ Associated Press (2008-12-30). "Rice rolls Western Michigan for first bowl win since '54". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
- ^ "Rice Owls Football Schedules and Future Schedules". fbschedules.com. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
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