James Kitts

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James Kitts

Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball
Biographical details
Born	(1900-06-14)June 14, 1900
Died	December 13, 1952(1952-12-13) (aged 52) El Paso, Texas
Playing career
Football 1918–1921 Basketball 1919–1922	SMU SMU
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1931–1933 1934–1939 1941 1946–1947 Basketball 1920s 1932–1938 Baseball 1925–1926	Rice (freshmen) Rice Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Athens HS (TX) Rice Dallas
Head coaching record
Overall	46–42–7 (college football) 58–56 (college basketball) 21–12 (college baseball)
Bowls	1–1
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
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]

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^#
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.

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
↑ UP (December 15, 1952). "Former Rice Coach, Jimmy Kitts, Dies". The Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved October 20, 2011.

External links

James Kitts at the College Football Data Warehouse

Rice Owls head football coaches

Phillip Arbuckle (1912–1917)
John Anderson (1918)
Phillip Arbuckle (1919–1923)
John Heisman (1924–1927)
Claude Rothgeb (1928)
Jack Meagher (1929–1933)
James Kitts (1934–1939)
Jess Neely (1940–1966)
Bo Hagan (1967–1970)
Bill Peterson (1971)
Al Conover (1972–1975)
Homer Rice (1976–1977)
Ray Alborn (1978–1983)
Watson Brown (1984–1985)
Jerry Berndt (1986–1988)
Fred Goldsmith (1989–1993)
Ken Hatfield (1994–2005)
Todd Graham (2006)
David Bailiff (2007– )

Rice Owls men's basketball head coaches

Robert Cummings (1914–1917)
Wilbur Tisdale (1917–1919)
Leslie Mann (1919–1920)
Pete Cawthon (1920–1921)
Howard Yerges (1921–1922)
Phillip Arbuckle (1922–1923)
Pete Cawthon (1923–1924)
John Nicholson (1924–1925)
Franklyn Ashcraft (1925–1927)
Russell Daugherty (1927–1932)
James Kitts (1932–1938)
Buster Brannon (1938–1942)
Joe Davis (1942–1945)
Buster Brannon (1945–1946)
Joe Davis (1946–1949)
Don Suman (1949–1959)
John Frankie (1959–1963)
George Carlisle (1963–1966)
Don Knodel (1966–1974)
Bob Polk (1974–1977)
Mike Schuler (1977–1981)
Tommy Suitts (1981–1987)
Scott Thompson (1987–1992)
Willis Wilson (1992–2008)
Ben Braun (2008– )

Virginia Tech Hokies head football coaches

E. A. Smyth (1892–1893)
Joseph Massie (1894)
Art C. Jones (1895–1896)
Charles Firth (1897)
J. Lewis Ingles (1898)
James Morrison (1899)
Eugene Davis (1900)
A. B. Morrison, Jr. (1901)
R. R. Brown (1902)
Charles Augustus Lueder (1903)
John C. O'Connor (1904)
Sally Miles (1905–1906)
C. R. Williams (1907)
R. M. Brown (1908)
Branch Bocock (1909–1910)
L. W. Riess (1911)
Branch Bocock (1912–1915)
Jack E. Ingersoll (1916)
Charles A. Bernier (1917–1919)
Stanley Sutton (1920)
B. C. Cubbage (1921–1925)
Andy Gustafson (1926–1929)
Orville Neale (1930–1931)
Henry Redd (1932–1940)
James Kitts (1941)
Herbert McEver & Sumner D. Tilson (1942)
No team (1943–1944)
Herbert McEver (1945)
James Kitts (1946–1947)
Robert McNeish (1948–1950)
Frank Moseley (1951–1960)
Jerry Claiborne (1961–1970)
Charlie Coffey (1971–1973)
Jimmy Sharpe (1974–1977)
Bill Dooley (1978–1986)
Frank Beamer (1987– )

Persondata
Name	Kitts, James
Alternative names	Kitts, James Roland; Kitts, James R.; Kitts, Jimmy
Short description	American football and basketball coach
Date of birth	June 14, 1900
Place of birth
Date of death	December 13, 1952
Place of death	El Paso Texas

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