Homer Rice

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Homer Rice
Sport	Football
Place of birth	Bellevue, KY
Career highlights
Overall	8-19 (NFL) 12-28-1 (NCAA)
Coaching stats
College Football DataWarehouse
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1967-1968 1976-1977 1978-1979	Cincinnati Rice Cincinnati Bengals

Homer Rice was a college athletic director and football coach. From 1967 to 1968, he served as the head football coach at Cincinnati, where he compiled an 8-10-1 record. From 1976 to 1977, he coached at Rice, where he compiled a 4-18 record. He has also served as an assistant football coach at Oklahoma, and Kentucky.

From 1969 to 1975, he served as the athletic director at North Carolina, and from 1976 to 1977, he served as the athletic director at Rice. His longest tenure as an athletic director though, came at Georgia Tech, where he served from 1980 to 1997. During that tenure, the Yellow Jackets accomplished more than they ever had, giving rise to several top athletic programs.

As a high school coach, Homer Rice won nine Coach of the Year Awards. He earned 1976's "Master of the Passing Game" award.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

• Statement by Dr. G. Wayne Clough, President, Georgia Institute of Technology. Georgia Institute of Technology. Retrieved on 2007-05-21.
• "Homer Rice Retires", Tech Topics, Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Fall 1997. Retrieved on 2007-05-21. 
• Arey, Norman. "Father of Champions", Tech Topics, Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Summer 1997. Retrieved on 2007-05-21. 

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