Rice Mountjoy

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Rice Mountjoy
Sport(s)	Basketball, Football, Track
Biographical details
Died	May 6, 1985 Florence, Kentucky
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1924 1925-1928 1928-41 1941-42 1942-45 1946-1953 1954-1959	Frankfort High School Kavanaugh High School Danville High School Murray State Tilghman High School Dixie Heights High School Boone County High School
Head coaching record
Overall	18-4

J. Rice Mountjoy (died May 6, 1985 in Florence, Kentucky) was a high school athletics coach in Kentucky and was the head coach of the Murray State Teachers College men's basketball team during the 1941-42 season.

A former track star at Centre College, Mountjoy began his coaching career in 1924 at Frankfort High School, where he coached the basketball team the quarterfinals of the state tournament. In 1925 he returned alma mater, Kavanaugh High School where his players included Forrest Sale and Paul McBrayer.^[1] He spent 13 years as the athletic director and head football, basketball, and track coach at Danville High School where he compiled a 95-21-10 record in football and only two of his 13 basketball teams failed to reach the regional tournament.^[2] In his only season as Murray State's basketball coach, the Thoroughbreds went 18-4 and earned a spot in the 1942 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.^[3] One of Mountjoy's players was future Basketball Hall of Famer Joe Fulks.

Mountjoy left Murray State in 1942 to coach football at Tilghman High School. In his three seasons at THS, his football teams emassed a 22-5 record. From 1946-1953, Mountjoy was the head football coach and athletic director at Dixie Heights High School. He spent six seasons as head football coach and athletic director at Boone County High School before retiring in 1959.^[4]

References

↑ "Mountjoy To Be All-Star Coach". Kentucky New Era. January 14, 1952. Retrieved 2010-03-20.
↑ "J. RICE MOUNTJOY, RETIRED COACH, DIES". Lexington Herald-Leader. May 8, 1985. |accessdate= requires |url= (help)
↑ http://racerhistory.com/
↑ "Rice Mountjoy to Quit Sports Job". Kentucky New Era. June 24, 1959. Retrieved 2010-03-20.

Murray State Racers men's basketball head coaches

Carlisle Cutchin (1925–1941)
Rice Mountjoy (1941–1942)
John Miller (1942–1947)
Carlisle Cutchin # (1947–1948)
Harlan Hodges (1948–1954)
Rex Alexander (1954–1958)
Cal Luther (1958–1974)
Fred Overton (1974–1978)
Ron Greene (1978–1985)
Steve Newton (1985–1991)
Scott Edgar (1991–1995)
Mark Gottfried (1995–1998)
Tevester Anderson (1998–2003)
Mick Cronin (2003–2006)
Billy Kennedy (2006–2011)
Steve Prohm (2011– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Persondata
Name	Mountjoy, Rice
Alternative names
Short description	American sports coach
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	May 6, 1985
Place of death	Florence, Kentucky

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