Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Fact Fondue - Rice University




And they wanted to change Pete?
Edited to include a few more awesome facts
  • Established in 1912 - the year the Titanic sank
  • Official Colors are Union Blue and Confederate Grey
  • Purdue is 1-0 against Conference USA ('01 defeated Cinci)
  • 1-2-0 against the Black and Gold. Their only victory? In 1934.
  • 5-16 against the Big 10; haven't beat a B1G team since 1997 (Northwestern)
  • Have a historic study area officially named the Weenie Loft..
  • Students are held to an honor code for exams - students take unproctored exams at home.
  • Rice football was mentioned by JFK in his Man to the Moon speech; He used Rice playing Texas annually as an example of something challenging and hard (That's what she said?)
  • Their Punter, Kyle Martins was an All American last year. We have something in common I see.
  • 5 Miles away from University of Houston 
  • Purdue Alumni Association is doing a breakfast club at the Coach's Pub this week
  • Rice has an official drinking event - The Beer Bike Rice
  • Sammy the Owl was ejected from a game in 2009 for bumping an official.
  • Rice has 14 astronauts 
  • Bob Greise won the 1974 Superbowl (VIII) at Rice Stadium
  • Rice uses the same field technology - FieldTurf - as Nebraska, Illinois, U of M, O$U




5 comments:

jay.westfall said...

Anyone looking at Section 305 Row 29 Seat 1...the guy in the Old Gold "Boiler Up" shirt. That is me!!!! :):) With the wife and 9 year old son. He loves Robbie Hummel, too!

jigboy22 said...

Where can I buy tickets for this game? I tried going to Stubhub, the Purdue athletics website, and Rice's but got nowhere...can I just scalp them the day of?

AJsaBoilerFan said...

There won't be any need to scalp them. Rice only dreams of selling out games. Just buy them at the ticket window when you show up.

boilerdowd said...

Nice job, Huff.

THuff said...

JigBoy - (713) 522-OWLS or just call Purdue Sports.

Both of these numbers were listed as the best route to purchasing tickets on the Purdue Alumni site. More info can be found here.

https://www.purduealumni.org/events/football-events/