- Homer Rice
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Name = Homer Rice
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Birthplace = flagicon|Kentucky Bellevue, KY
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OverallRecord = 8-19 (NFL)
12-28-1 (NCAA)
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CoachYears = 1967-1968
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CoachTeams = Cincinnati
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BBallHOF =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.Fact|date=October 2007
External links
*cite web|url=http://smartech.gatech.edu/dspace/bitstream/1853/11349/1/clough_079.pdf|title=Statement by Dr. G. Wayne Clough, President, Georgia Institute of Technology|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2007-05-21
*cite news|url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtopics/fall97/rice.html|title=Homer Rice Retires|work=Tech Topics|publisher=Georgia Tech Alumni Association|date=Fall 1997|accessdate=2007-05-21
*cite news|first=Norman|last=Arey|url=http://gtalumni.org/news/magazine/sum97/rice.html|title=Father of Champions|work=Tech Topics|publisher=Georgia Tech Alumni Association|date=Summer 1997|accessdate=2007-05-21
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