Rice Warren, head coach at South Carolina
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Rice Warren

Rice Warren went 41–⁠28–⁠5 as a head coach, 1907–⁠1921, at Randolph-Macon, Virginia and South Carolina.

Eight seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1907–⁠11 at Randolph-Macon; 1913, 1920–⁠21 at Virginia. They’re marked in the table.

Record
41–⁠28–⁠5 career
Seasons
9
Schools
3
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1916 2–⁠7

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national title
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1907Randolph-Macon *4–⁠4
1908Randolph-Macon *6–⁠2T–1st
1909Randolph-Macon *3–⁠2–⁠2
1910Randolph-Macon *4–⁠41st
1911Randolph-Macon *5–⁠2–⁠11st
1912: not a college head coach
1913Virginia *7–⁠1T–3rd
1914–⁠15: not a college head coach
1916South Carolina2–⁠7
1917–⁠19: not a college head coach
1920Virginia *5–⁠2–⁠2T–4th
1921Virginia *5–⁠43rd

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals10–⁠1
At home62–⁠4
On the road30–⁠3
As our Elo’s favorite52–⁠3
As our Elo’s underdog40–⁠4

His own nine games on file, 1916, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Mercerseries11–⁠0
Woffordseries11–⁠0
Wake Forestseries10–⁠1
Clemsonseries10–⁠1
Furmanseries10–⁠1
Virginiaseries10–⁠1
Newberryseries10–⁠1
Tennesseeseries10–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1907–⁠11Randolph-MaconHead coach
1912VirginiaAssistant coach
1913VirginiaHead coach
1916South CarolinaHead coach
1920–⁠21VirginiaHead coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

Worked under

Rice Warren

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Speed ElliottVirginia1912Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Dixon FosterSouth Carolina, 1916: freshman coachSouth Carolina

From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.