A Season On The Brink From Inside The Huddle Part 6

KY VS RICE–STOLL FIELD –1955 KY 20–RICE 16

Rice played much better than expected. Their offense was dynamite, they moved the ball up and down the field against our defense which had played very well except the Miss. St game.

The Rice qb threw the ball well on the move or kept the ball and ran with it and gained a lot of yardage. In fact the rice coach said this was their best game to date and Rice had played LSU to a 20-20 tie earlier. Their receivers and ends were very good even with their all american end on the sidelines due to injury.

Our offense played very well. We mixed up the run with the pass, we ran the pitch or toss into the short side of the field and rice couldn’t handle it.

All in all Ky. played pretty good with no major injury’s.

1955 story.
Rice brought their a game on offense. Their quarterback was very good. He sprinted out and threw on the run, kept and ran or pitched to his hb. The rice qb was not flashy but very efficient and took good care of the ball.

Rice’s receivers were very good down around the 12 yd marker with quick outs and an occasional hook blended in with a crossing pattern now and then. Rice moved the ball on us very well.

Ky’s offense was very good. Our game plan was to run the ball about 60% and pass 40% which our qb had just about on the number.

We got great running out of our backs Ivan Curnutte, Don Netoski, Billy Mitchell, Dick Moloney, Bobby Walker and Bob Dougherty.

Rice was a good football team, much better than their record showed. Rice had tied LSU 20-20 earlier in the season.

Upcoming game Ky vs Vanderbilt in Nashville.

Vandy is a dangerous team, they have lost 2 games to date. At Georgia 14-13 and to Ole Miss 13-0. They have been hard to score on this season. They have a couple of great running backs. 1 back King plays both half back and full back. A big hard running back with great bursts of speed and power. We will have to stay on him and not let him get rolling.

Vandy has a very good qb that runs the offense under control, doesn’t do anything crazy, has very few fumbles and doesn’t throw very many interceptions. Hes very good faker with the ball. is a drop back passer but not much of a runner.

Vandy’s defense is very good, Good tackles and ends, 3 better than average linebackers. Their defensive secondary is very good on the run, can be beat on quick out passes and an occasional crossing pattern. The defense mixes up their signals a lot and will rush a linebacker here and there.

This will be a tough game for Ky.