(05-29-2019 11:51 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  "Rice University left the conference in 1916, only to re-join in 1918."

I guess this means were an independent for a year, didn't like it.

I suspect that WWI was a factor, as well. Rice's Football FactBook gives SWC results for all of these years. Here are the schedules/results for 1915-1919:

1915 (5-3, 1-2 SWC)
O2 Trinity W 46-0
O8 Baylor (SWC) L 26-0
O16 at Texas (SWC) L 59-0
O23 Daniel Baker W 28-0
O30 TCU W 33-0
N8 Texas A&M (SWC) W 7-0
N17 LSU W 6-0
N27 Notre Dame L 55-2

1916 (6-1-2, 1-1 SWC)
O7 at Texas (SWC) L 16-2
O13 Austin College W 40-0
O21 Southwestern W 24-0
O27 at TCU T 7-7
N4 Texas A&M (SWC) W 20-0
N11 Tulane W 23-13
N17 SMU W 146-3
N24 at LSU T 7-7
N30 Arizona W 47-7

1917 (7-1, 1-1 SWC)
O6 Illinois Medics W 31-0
O13 TCU W 26-0
O19 Austin College W 53-13
O27 at Texas (SWC) W 13-0
N3 Haskell Institute W 55-13
N10 Southwestern W 34-13
N17 at Tulane W 16-0
N29 Texas A&M (SWC) L 10-0

1918 (1-5-1, 1-1 SWC) - T 3RD
Coach: John Anderson
O5 Camp Logan L 10-0
O19 Park Place Flyers L 7-0
O26 Camp Logan T 0-0
N2 Kelly Field L 28-0
N9 Park Place Flyers L 3-0
N16 at Texas L 14-0
N30 SMU W 13-0

1919 (8-1, 3-1 SWC) - 2ND
O4 Trinity W 12-0
O11 at Baylor (SWC) W 8-0
O18 Southwestern W 22-0
O24 Austin College W 54-0
N1 at Texas (SWC) L 32-7
N8 SMU (SWC) W 21-14
N15 University of South W 19-7
N21 Howard Payne W 7-0
N27 Arkansas (SWC) W 40-7