SMU will play the Owls at Rice Stadium in Houston in a night game Saturday, Oct. 21.

* Watson Brown, older brother of Texas Longhorns head coach Mack Brown, former head football coach of the Rice Owls, Vanderbilt Commodores, and UAB Blazers ; current head coach of the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles.

Kramer led the Owls in passing for four straight years and his career and season marks were the standard at Rice for over 30 years until they were shattered by Chase Clement, another San Antonio signal caller.

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The first bowl game played in the Superdome after Katrina was the New Orleans Bowl won by the Troy University Trojans 41 – 17 over the Rice University Owls.

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It has been the home of the Rice Owls football team since its completion in 1950 and hosted Super Bowl VIII in 1974.

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He then attended Rice University playing on the Owls baseball team, where he was named the 1997 National College Player of the Year, playing for the legendary Wayne Graham, as well as named a first team All-America by Collegiate Baseball Magazine, Baseball America and The Sporting News.

That year he also made the all-time record book in RBI ( 2nd-134 ), slugging percentage ( 6th-1. 031 ) and total bases ( 4th-263 ) while leading the Rice Owls to their first College World Series appearance.

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UTSA will then be one of four Texas schools in C-USA, along with a fellow newcomer in the North Texas Mean Green and established C-USA programs in the Rice Owls and UTEP Miners.

* David Hall ( baseball coach ), Rice Owls baseball head coach, 1981 – 1991

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In these numbers were 18 players from the 19th ranked Rice Owls, 9 players from the 13th ranked LSU Fighting Tigers, and 8 players from eighth ranked Tulsa team of 1942.

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He was recruited as a quarterback by Doug Dickey's staff and in his first game as a Gator, Collinsworth threw a 99-yard touchdown pass to Derrick Gaffney against the Rice Owls, which remains tied for the longest touchdown pass in NCAA history.

A referee ( foreground ) follows the action of a play between the Texas Longhorns football | Texas Longhorns and the Rice Owls.

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Memorably, Gaffney caught a ninety-nine-yard touchdown reception from Cris Collinsworth in the Gators ' 48 – 3 victory over the Rice Owls in 1977, which tied the then-current NCAA record and remains the longest touchdown pass in Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) history.

Playing for the Rice Owls baseball team, Aardsma set school single-season and career records in saves in -.

The Cougars and Rice Owls compete in football annually for a trophy known as the " Bayou Bucket ," referencing one of the city of Houston's nicknames as the " Bayou City.

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* 1953 – Jim Rice, American baseball player

* April 27 – John L. Rice, American baseball umpire ( d. 2011 )

* Jim Ed Rice: former professional baseball player with the Boston Red Sox from 1974 to 1989.

* Len Rice, baseball player

It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman ( former Brown University and University of Pennsylvania player ; head football coach at Auburn University, Clemson University, Rice University, and University of Pennsylvania ; and football, basketball, and baseball head coach and athletic director at Georgia Tech ).

They lived in Watseka, where Rice ran the family farm, worked at several jobs in the area, and attended tryouts for various professional baseball teams.

In 1914 Rice tried out for a professional baseball team in Petersburg, Virginia, and was accepted.

They have also worn baseball uniforms and other humorous costumes, appearing in the game Rice Bowl Down Hill where they would try and put the contestants off by singing a very annoying chant, ' unda unda unda ' as well as Bridge Ball and other games.

Rice played baseball in high school in Phoenix, Arizona, and attracted the attention of college and professional scouts.

On May 11, 2009, Berkman announced that after his major league career, he would like to coach for the University of Texas at Austin's baseball team even though he attended Rice University.

Like his grandfather and uncle ( both at Yale ), Bush was a freshman walk-on to the baseball team at Rice University, but abandoned the game by his sophomore year.

He was baseball coach at Rice University in 1927.

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( TCU, Texas, Texas A & M, Texas Tech, Rice, Houston, Baylor, and SMU ( ceased operations after 1980 ) baseball programs once belonged together to the Southwest Conference before 1996 ; Clark Field, Dan Law Field, Olsen Field, and TCU Diamond are just some of the ballparks that played host to Southwest Conference baseball over the course of the SWC.

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A relief pitcher, Byrdak attended Rice University and played college baseball for the Rice Owls baseball team before becoming a professional.

Although the Washington team endured long bouts of mediocrity ( immortalized in the 1955 Broadway musical Damn Yankees ), they had a period of prolonged success in the 1920s and 1930s, led by Hall-of-Famers Bucky Harris, Goose Goslin, Sam Rice, Heinie Manush, Joe Cronin, and above all Walter Johnson.

This was also the first Super Bowl played in a stadium that was not the current home to an NFL or AFL team, as no team had called Rice Stadium home since the Houston Oilers moved into the Astrodome.

After the turnover, Young lead his team on a 10-play, 67-yard drive, aided by a 22-yard pass interference penalty against Darrien Gordon on 3rd and 14, to score on his 5th touchdown pass, a 15-yard completion to Rice.

His cricket and general knowledge were called upon in his role as a regular team captain on BBC Radio 4's quiz show Trivia Test Match with Tim Rice and Brian Johnston which ran from 1986 to 1993.

Steve Smith made the NBA All-Rookie team and Glen Rice finished 10th in the NBA in scoring.

Glen Rice would make an immediate impact after joining the Hornets, leading the team in scoring and points-per-game during the 1995 – 96 season.

While Rice and Johnson provided high-powered scoring, Geiger tied with Johnson for the team lead in rebounds, and All-Star guard Kenny Anderson ran the point for the injured Muggsy Bogues.

Rice finishing third in the league in scoring, earning all-NBA second team honors, and was also the All-Star Game MVP, setting several scoring records.

With Wesley, Phills, Rice, Mason and Divac, the Hornets romped through the regular season, finishing with a 51 – 31 record ; Rice had another good season, as he finished sixth in league scoring and earned all-NBA third team honors.

The team also acquired J. R. Reid, B. J. Armstrong, and Glen Rice.

After the season, starters Rice and Green left the team, and Los Angeles signed Horace Grant.

The preeminent sportswriter of the day Grantland Rice listed him at the two positions in picking his 1929 All-America team.

Then, after signing veteran Pro Bowl wide receiver Jerry Rice and defensive tackle Trace Armstrong, the team repeated as AFC West champions in 2001.

Rice led the team with 15. 5 sacks.

At the time, Rice drove for the team co-owned by 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal and the Indiana native television talk show host and comedian David Letterman.

On November 16, 1940, BC's Frank Leahy-coached championship team took a win from two-season undefeated Georgetown in the final seconds in a game that renowned sportswriter Grantland Rice called the greatest ever played.

The new ownership wanted to turn the team into a winner for the 1994-95 season so Rutherford went out to the free agent market and signed Jimmy Carson and Steven Rice.

Rice was leaving a Hornets team in turmoil with many players demanding trades coming out of a 4 month lockout.

A disgruntled Rice was eventually traded to the New York Knicks, where he would take on a sixth-man role on the team and provide the Knicks with well needed support off the bench.

The number 80 is also the retired number of Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Steve Largent ; when Rice was traded to the Seahawks, Largent gave the team permission to unretire his number so Rice could wear it.

He was well known to television audiences as a team captain on the long-running BBC2 series Call My Bluff, and did voice-overs for advertisements, including Cadbury's Fruit & Nut chocolate (" Everyone's a Fruit and Nut case "), Batchelors ' Savoury Rice (" Every grain will drive them insane!