Lessons for Leaders: Building a Winning Team from the Ground Up - Hardcover

Rice, Homer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563526328 ISBN 13: 9781563526329

Publisher: Longstreet Pr, 2000

Synopsis

It wasn't enough that, as a high school coach, Homer Rice won 1961's "Winningest Football Coach in America" Award. It wasn't enough that invented the triple-option offense,but as a college coach, he earned 1976's "Master of the Passing Game" Award. It wasn't enough that Homer Rice came to Georgia Tech and miraculously resuscitated the school's moribund athletic program, culminating in the 1990 National Football Championship. Because for Homer Rice, winning football games was never enough. Rice has left an enduring mark on NCAA football, and on collegiate athletics in general, but perhaps his greatest achievement is his creation of the Student-Athletic Total Person Program. Instituted at Georgia Tech, this program is now helping young men and women achieve their full potential at close to two hundred other colleges and universities. Using his own story as a compelling case study, Rice shows in Lessons For Leaders how his innovative "Attitude Technique Philosophy leads to total success, whether on the gridiron or in any other of life's endeavors.

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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

Edition details

• Publisher: Longstreet Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563526328
• ISBN 13: 9781563526329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 202