Phillip Arbuckle

Phillip Arbuckle

Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball
Biographical details
Born	(1883-09-06)September 6, 1883 Kingston, Illinois
Died	June 11, 1932(1932-06-11) (aged 48) Houston, Texas
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1908–1911 1912–1917 1919–1923 1924 Basketball 1910–1912 1922–1923 Baseball 1908–1911 1913–1917	Southwestern (TX) Rice Rice Louisiana Tech Southwestern (TX) Rice Southwestern (TX) Rice
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1908–1912 1912–1924	Southwestern (TX) Rice
Head coaching record
Overall	60–44–14 (football) 13–10 (basketball) 71–75–8 (baseball)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Philip Heckman Arbuckle (September 6, 1883 – June 11, 1932)^[1] was a college football coach at Louisiana Tech University and Rice University. From 1912 to 1923, he coached at Rice, where he compiled a 51–25–8 record. His only losing season at Rice came in 1923, which makes him the most prolific football coach in school history. His 1919 team went 8–1, to mark his best season. In 1924, he coached at Louisiana Tech, where he compiled a 1–6–1 record.

Arbuckle died in Houston, Texas on June 11, 1932 of a pulmonary embolism caused by subacute bacterial endocarditis.^[2]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall
Southwestern Pirates (Independent) (1908–1911)
1908	Southwestern	3–2
1909	Southwestern	1–4–2
1910	Southwestern	2–4–1
1911	Southwestern	2–3–2
Southwestern:		8–13–5
Rice Owls (Independent) (1912)
1912	Rice	3–2
Rice Owls (Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1913–1914)
1913	Rice	4–0
1914	Rice	3–2–3
Rice Owls (Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association / Southwest Conference) (1915–1917)
1915	Rice	5–3
1916	Rice	6–1–2
1917	Rice	7–1
Rice Owls (Southwest Conference) (1919–1923)
1919	Rice	8–1
1920	Rice	4–2–2
1921	Rice	4–4–1
1922	Rice	4–4
1923	Rice	3–5
Rice:		51–25–8
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (Louisiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1924)
1924	Louisiana Tech	1–6–1
Louisiana Tech:		1–6–1
Total:		60–44–14

Basketball

Season	Team	Overall
Rice Owls (Southwest Conference) (1922–1923)
1922–23	Rice	10–9
Rice:		10–9
Total:		10–9

Baseball

Season	Team	Overall	Conference
Rice Owls (Independent) (1913–1913)
1913	Rice	3–3
Rice Owls (Southwest Conference) (1914–1917)
1914	Rice	8–8–1
1915	Rice	5–13
1916	Rice	2–9	2–9
1917	Rice	8–5–1
Rice:		26–38–2
Total:		26–38–2

References

Southwestern Pirates head football coaches

No coach (1903–1907) Phillip Arbuckle (1908–1911) James C. Snipes (1912–1913) J. Burton Rix (1914–1916) Lionel Moise (1917–1918) L. S. Honaker (1919–1920) William Jennings Gardner (1921–1924) Charles M. Edens (1925–1938) Randolph M. Medley (1939–1947) William Harold Collins (1948–1949) Randolph M. Medley (1950) No team (1951–2012) Joe Austin (2013– )

Rice Owls athletic directors

Phillip Arbuckle (1912–1924)
John Heisman (1924–1927)
Gaylord Johnson (1927–1940)
Jess Neely (1940–1967)
Bo Hagan (1967–1970)
Bill Peterson (1970–1971)
Red Bale (1971–1975)
Homer Rice (1976–1978)
Augie Erfurth (1978–1984)
Watson Brown (1984–1985)
Jerry Berndt (1986–1988)
Bobby May (1989–2006)
Chris Del Conte (2006–2009)
David Sayler # (2009–2010)
Rick Greenspan (2010–2013)
Joe Karlgaard (2013– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim athletic director.

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 (2008–2014)
Mike Rhoades (2014– )

Rice Owls head baseball coaches

Phillip Arbuckle (1912–1917)
Jack Coombs (1918)
Pete Cawthon (1920–1921)
Bob Countryman (1922–1923)
Mike O'Neill (1924)
Joe Bedenk (1925–1926)
Dickey Kerr (1927)
Dickey Kerr & Charlie Schwartz (1928)
Gene Bailey (1929)
Danny Allnoch (1930)
John Nemic (1931–1932)
Cecil Grigg (1936–1944)
Jess Neely (1945)
Cecil Grigg (1946–1947)
Jess Neely (1948)
Harold Stockbridge (1949–1952)
Dell Morgan (1953–1961)
Joe Gallagher (1962)
Doug Osburn (1963–1980)
David Hall (1981–1991)
Wayne Graham (1992– )

Louisiana Tech Bulldogs head football coaches

Edwin Barber (1901)
Frank Singleton (1902)
Howard F. Crandell (1902)
W. M. Robb (1903)
E. G. Pierce (1904)
J. V. Bragg (1905)
Z. T. Young (1906)
George L. Watkins (1907)
A. L. Cornell (1908)
Percy S. Prince (1909–1915)
A. Flack (1916)
V. S. Pugh (1917)
No team (1918)
Percy S. Prince (1919)
R. Foster Clark (1920–1921)
William Henry Dietz (1922–1923)
Phillip Arbuckle (1924)
R. C. Kenney (1925)
Hugh E. Wilson (1926–1927)
Tod Rockwell (1928–1929)
George Bohler (1930–1933)
Eddie McLane (1934–1938)
Ray E. Davis (1939)
Joe Aillet (1940–1942)
No team (1943)
Joe Aillet (1944–1966)
Maxie Lambright (1967–1978)
Larry Beightol (1979)
Pat Patterson # (1979)
Billy Brewer (1980–1982)
A. L. Williams (1983–1986)
Carl Torbush (1987)
Joe Raymond Peace (1988–1995)
Gary Crowton (1996–1998)
Jack Bicknell, Jr. (1999–2006)
Derek Dooley (2007–2009)
Sonny Dykes (2010–2012)
Skip Holtz (2013–)