Parade celebrating the opening of the new Rice Stadium, Rice Institute

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Date

1950

Description

Six cheerleaders riding on a float during a parade in downtown Houston. The float has the letters OWLS on the side, along with an image of an owl. Original resource is a color photograph.

Citation

"Parade celebrating the opening of the new Rice Stadium, Rice Institute." (1950) Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71420.

Keyword

Events; William M. Rice Institute; Cheerleading; Parades--Texas--Houston; Parade floats--Texas--Houston; More... Rice Stadium--History; Rice University--History

Publisher

Rice University

Related Work(s)

This image was included in the Rice centennial history book, published with support of the Rice Historical Society. Karen Hess Rogers, Lee Pecht and Alan Harris Bath, "Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures"(College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2012), 79

Citable link to this page

https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71420

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