James Kitts

American football head coach

1900 – 1952

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Who was James Kitts?

James Roland "Jimmy" Kitts was an American football, basketball, and baseball 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.

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Born
Jun 14, 1900
Died
Dec 13, 1952
El Paso

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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