player_team death_date death_place coach_years championships overall_record player_years coach_team coach_sport cfbdwid bowl_record sport birth_date player_sport image article_title name
smu smu 13 december 1952 el paso , texas 1931 1939 1941 1946 & ndash ; 1947 1920s 1932 & & ndash ; 1938 1925 & ndash ; 1926 ndash ; 1933 1934 & ndash ; football 2 swc -lrb- 1934 , 1937 -rrb- 46 -lrb- college football -rrb- 58 & ndash ; 56 -lrb- & college basketball -rrb- 21 & ndash ; 12 -lrb- college ndash baseball -rrb- ; 42 & ndash ; 7 1918 1922 & ndash ; 1921 1919 & ndash ; rice athens hs -lrb- tx -rrb- rice dallas -lrb- freshmen -rrb- rice virginia tech virginia tech football basketball baseball 1288 1 & ndash ; 1 football , basketball , baseball 14 june 1900 football basketball james kitts.jpg james kitts
 james kitts
james kitts

james roland `` jimmy '' kitts -lrb- june 14 , 1900 -- december 13 , 1952 -rrb- 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 .
