Phillip Arbuckle
American football, basketball, and baseball coach, college athletics administrator

Phillip Arbuckle

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American football, basketball, and baseball coach, college athletics administrator
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6 September 1883(Kingston, USA)
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11 June 1932(Houston, USA)
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University of Chicago
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Philip Heckman Arbuckle (September 6, 1882 – June 11, 1932) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator.He served as the head football coach at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas from 1908 to 1911, Rice University from1912 to 1917 and 1919 to 1923, and Louisiana Tech University in 1924, compiling a career college football coaching record of 60–44–14. At Rice he tallied a 51–25–8 record.His 1919 team went 8–1, to mark his best season. His only losing season at Rice came in 1923.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.

Rice University

Arbuckle served as Rice University's first athletic director and football coach in 1912.His teams played against local high schools until Rice joined the Southwest Conference in 1914. Arbuckle also served as the head coach of the baseball, basketball and track teams and taught English and history. He was succeeded by John Heisman in 1924 and inducted into the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame in 1975.

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Football

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

Basketball

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

Baseball

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Rice Owls (Independent)
1913 Rice 3–3
Rice Owls (Southwest Conference)
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