1912 Rice Grays football team

The 1912 Rice Grays football team was an American football team that represented Rice Institute as an independent during the 1912 college football season. The team compiled a 3–2 record and was outscored by a total of 125 to 40.[1]

1912 Rice Grays football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–2
Head coach
CaptainR. E. Cummings
Home stadiumWest End Park
1912 Southern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Middle Tennessee State Normal    1 0 0
Texas    7 1 0
VMI    7 1 0
Maryland    6 1 1
Oklahoma A&M    6 2 0
Livingstone    3 1 1
Louisville    3 1 0
Mississippi Normal    2 1 0
South Carolina    5 2 1
Navy    6 3 0
West Virginia    6 3 0
Spring Hill    4 2 0
Oklahoma    5 4 0
Rice    3 2 0
Chattanooga    4 4 0
Southwest Texas State    3 3 2
Davidson    3 4 0
Marshall    3 4 0
Southwestern Louisiana Industrial    3 4 0
Arkansas    4 6 0
Baylor    3 5 0
Catholic University    3 5 0
Louisiana Industrial    1 2 1
West Tennessee State Normal    1 2 1
Wake Forest    2 6 0
Kendall    1 4 0
Delaware    1 6 1
Biddle    0 1 0

Rice Institute opened its doors in the fall of 1912, and its first football team was made up of 21 students from the incoming freshmen class.[2][3] In its first game, the team defeated Houston High School by a 7–6 score.[4] In its first intercollegiate football game, the team defeated Sam Houston Normal by a 20–6 score in Huntsville, Texas.[5]

Philip Arbuckle was hired in 1912 as the football coach and the head of the entire Rice athletic program. Arbuckle was at the time a 28-year-old Illinois native and University of Chicago graduate.[6]

The team played its two home games during the 1912 season at West End Park in Houston. Plans were set in motion to build athletic field on the campus with seating for 12,000 persons to be opened in 1913.[7]

At the end of the 1912 season, end George Journeay was selected to be the captain of the 1913 Rice team.[8]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 26at Houston High SchoolW 7–6[4]
October 30at Orange High School
W 13–0[9]
November 9at Sam Houston NormalHuntsville, TXW 20–6[5]
November 15at Southwestern (TX)Georgetown, TXL 0–32[10]
November 28Austin
  • West End Park
  • Houston, TX
L 0–81[11]

References

  1. "Rice Owls 2017 Football Fact Book" (PDF). Rice University. 2017. p. 187.
  2. "Physical Development Keynote of Institute's Athletics". Houston Daily Post. October 6, 1912. p. 43 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Personnel of Rice Eleven: Arbuckle Has Twenty-One Freshmen Grays to Play Today". Houston Daily Post. November 28, 1912. p. 4 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Rice Freshmen Won Debut: Journeay's Brilliant Forty Yard Run on Forward Pass Downed Houston High". Houston Daily Post. October 27, 1912. p. 20 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Rice Won At Huntsville: Fumbles by Normal Enabled Arbuckle's Freshmen to Run Score to 20 to 6". Houston Daily Post. November 10, 1912. p. 22 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "The Rice Institute Coach: Philip H. Arbuckle Is Man on Whom the Athletic Destiny of School Depends". Houston Daily Post. October 6, 1912. p. 43 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Finest Stadium In South". Houston Daily Post. October 6, 1912. p. 43 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Rice's 1913 Captain Is George Journeay". Houston Daily Post. December 17, 1912. p. 3 via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Rice Won From Orange: Institute Freshmen Defeated Lea's High School Eleven by 13 to 0 Score". Houston Daily Post. October 31, 1912. p. 3 via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Rice Was Blanked By S.U.: Arbuckle's Freshmen Grays Fought Pluckily but Could Not Gain When Close to Goal". Houston Daily Post. November 16, 1912. p. 4 via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Austin Slaughtered Freshmen Grays By Record Score of Texas Season". Houston Daily Post. November 29, 1912. p. 4 via Newspapers.com.


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