J. Burton Rix
Rix (left) with assistant coach Lt. Joseph Wier and head coach Dave Allerdice at Texas circa 1913
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, track |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 24, 1882 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Died | August 8, 1964 (aged 82) Dallas, Texas |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1905 | Dartmouth |
| Basketball | |
| 1903–1905 | Dartmouth |
| Position(s) | Halfback (football) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1909–1910 | Austin |
| 1911–1913 | Texas (assistant) |
| 1914–1916 | Southwestern (TX) |
| 1917–1921 | SMU |
| 1929 | Miami (FL) |
| Basketball | |
| 1911–1912 | Texas |
| 1917–1921 | SMU |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1914–1917 | Southwestern (TX) |
| 1917–1921 | SMU |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 30–33–8 (football, excluding Austin) 29–37 (basketball) |
John Burton Rix (March 24, 1882 – August 8, 1964) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Southwestern University (1914–1916), Southern Methodist University (1917–1921), the University of Miami (1929). Rix was also the head basketball coach at the University of Texas at Austin (1911–1912) and at Southern Methodist (1917–1921), tallying a career college basketball mark of 29–37.
Rix was born on March 24, 1882 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Dartmouth College, where he played on the football team as a halfback in 1905, and served as the basketball team captain for the 1903–04 and 1904–05 seasons. Rix graduated from Dartmouth with an A.B. degree in 1906. He was a member of the Pi Chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the Casque and Gauntlet. In 1910, he was teaching as an English instructor at Austin College.
In 1912, Rix became the head basketball coach at Texas, replacing W. E. Metzenthin, who had moved into the position of athletic director. Rix served in that capacity for one season and without pay. According to the student yearbook, the Cactus, he "took hold of the squad when it found itself without a leader and quickly demonstrated his ability to transform it into a quintet that was as good as any in the state." At Texas, he also served as an assistant football coach under Dave Allerdice from 1911 through 1913. After a 30–7 loss to Notre Dame in 1913, Rix wrote in The Alcalde:
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