Talk:Rice Owls football

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1912 Season, for Centennial?
Here are some references, in case anyone’s interested in adding the 1912 season article, in the context of the team’s upcoming centennial.
 * West End Park (Houston, Texas) - see the references, there, for more details about early games
 * - includes seasons from 1912-1916

Erroneous winning percentages of Rice coaches
It appears that some of the winning percentages shown on this page for Rice football coaches are wrong.

For example, Rice's first coach, Phillip Arbuckle, is shown on this page to have a record of 51-25-8 -- 65.5%. But 51/(51+25+8) = 51/84 = 60.7%

Also, Jimmy Kitts is shown to have a record of 33–29–4 -- 53.0%. But 33/66 = 50%.

I haven't checked the others, but may in the future.

Note that Arbuckle's W-L-T record differs from that given in the Rice's Football 2012 Fact Book (http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/rice/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/2012FootballFactBook.pdf): 52-30-8. But this variance seems to be due to a mistake at Rice. They appear to have included the single win and five losses (but not the single tie) recorded by coach John Anderson in 1918 while Arbuckle was doing military service in the Army during World War I.