Talk:Rice Owls football

	College football portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject College football, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of college football on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.College footballWikipedia:WikiProject College footballTemplate:WikiProject College footballcollege football articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Houston (inactive)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Houston, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.HoustonWikipedia:WikiProject HoustonTemplate:WikiProject HoustonHouston articles

United States: Texas Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Texas portal This article is supported by WikiProject Texas (assessed as Low-importance).

This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Image copyright problem with Image:Rice Owls logo.gif[edit]

The image Image:Rice Owls logo.gif is used in this article under a claim of fair use, but it does not have an adequate explanation for why it meets the requirements for such images when used here. In particular, for each page the image is used on, it must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Please check

That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for the use in this article.
That this article is linked to from the image description page.

This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. --20:56, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1912 Season, for Centennial?[edit]

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
The Campanile. Houston: The Senior Class of the William Marsh Rice Institute. 1916. Retrieved 2012-05-06. - includes seasons from 1912-1916

Erroneous winning percentages of Rice coaches[edit]

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.