Lessons for Leaders: Building a Winning Team From the Ground Up
After serving in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater during WWII.  Homer Rice returned to school and earned All-American honors as quarterback at  Centre College-meanwhile spending his summers playing catcher in the Brooklyn  Dodgers organization. As a high school coach in the 1950's, he compiled a record  of 101-9-7 and was named "Winningest Football Coach in American-1960". As a college coach, his  development of the triple-option attack revolutionized offensive football. Dr.  Rice served as athletic director at the University of North Carolina and at Rice  University before being lured back to the sideline as the head coach of the  NFL's Cincinnati Bengals in 1979. In 1980 Dr. Rice assumed the post of athletic  director at Georgia Tech, where he was soon acclaimed as "the man who saved  Georgia Tech athletics." He served as the first president of the NCAA Division  1A Directors of Athletics Association and was the recipient of the James Corbett  Award, the highest award given in the field of athletics administration. He  retired from Georgia Tech in 1997