James Kitts
Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
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Biographical details | |
Born | June 14, 1900 |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. El Paso, Texas |
Playing career | |
Football | |
1918–1921 | SMU |
Basketball | |
1919–1922 | SMU |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1931–1933 | Rice (freshmen) |
1934–1939 | Rice |
1941 | Virginia Tech |
1946–1947 | Virginia Tech |
Basketball | |
1920s | Athens HS (TX) |
1932–1938 | Rice |
Baseball | |
1925–1926 | Dallas |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 46–42–7 (college football) 58–56 (college basketball) 21–12 (college baseball) |
Bowls | 1–1 |
Statistics | |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Football 2 SWC (1934, 1937) |
James Roland "Jimmy" Kitts (June 14, 1900 – December 13, 1952)[1] was an American football, basketball, and baseball[2] player and coach. He served as head football coach at Rice Institute—now Rice University—from 1934 to 1939 and at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1941 and from 1946 to 1947, compiling a career college football record of 46–42–7. Kitts was also the head basketball coach at Rice from 1932 to 1938, tallying a mark of 58–56. Kitts was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1956.[3]
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Coaching career
From 1934 to 1939, Kitts coached at Rice, and compiled a 33–29–4 record. His 1934 team went 9–1–1, however his 1939 team went 1–9–1.
Death
Kitts died on December 13, 1952 in El Paso, Texas.[4]
Head coaching record
Football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | AP# | |||
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Rice Owls (Southwest Conference) (1934–1939) | |||||||||
1934 | Rice | 9–1–1 | 5–1 | 1st | |||||
1935 | Rice | 8–3 | 3–3 | T–3rd | |||||
1936 | Rice | 5–7 | 1–5 | T–6th | |||||
1937 | Rice | 6–3–2 | 4–1–1 | 1st | W Cotton | 18 | |||
1938 | Rice | 4–6 | 3–3 | 4th | |||||
1939 | Rice | 1–9–1 | 0–5–1 | 7th | |||||
Rice: | 33–29–4 | 16–18–2 | |||||||
Virginia Tech Hokies (Southern Conference) (1941) | |||||||||
1941 | Virginia Tech | 6–4 | 4–2 | T–5th | |||||
Virginia Tech Hokies (Southern Conference) (1946–1947) | |||||||||
1946 | Virginia Tech | 3–4–3 | 3–3–2 | T–7th | L Sun | ||||
1947 | Virginia Tech | 4–5 | 4–3 | 8th | |||||
Virginia Tech: | 13–13–3 | 11–8–2 | |||||||
Total: | 46–42–7 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
#Rankings from final AP Poll. |
See also
References
- ↑ James Kitts' profile in the Texas Death Index
- ↑ University of Dallas Baseball Records (accessed 2012-06-03).
- ↑ Jimmy Kitts profile at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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