Dick Ellis -- Assistant Men's Golf Coach, Rice University Owls

(as of golf season 2006-07) Dr. Dick Ellis is now in his second year as assistant golf coach after spending the past two seasons as the head coach for men's golf and the past nine years at Rice as special assistant to former athletic director Bobby May and former head football coach Ken Hatfield.
A 1968 Air Force Academy graduate, Ellis played golf as a cadet, lettered in football and track, and was selected to the intercollegiate All-American pistol team his senior year. He has an extensive coaching career in both golf and football.
After coaching college football for three years, he was head junior varsity and the varsity assistant golf coach at the Air Force Academy in 1973-76.
Ellis returned to football coaching in 1977 when he was selected as the head coach at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School. A year later, he joined Bill Parcells's Air Force staff. When Parcells left for the NFL, he became a member of Ken Hatfield's first Academy coaching staff. Later, he also worked five years under head coach Fisher DeBerry before moving into administration as the Academy's associate director of athletics.
Prior to his long tour of duty at the Academy, he served as a combat pilot in Vietnam. Ellis wore both Air Force pilot wings and Army Airborne parachute wings.
Col. Ellis retired from the Air Force after 21 years of service and rejoined Hatfield at the University of Arkansas in 1989 as the Razorbacks' recruiting coordinator and director of football operations. That year, the Hogs won the Southwest Conference championship with a 10-1 record. He then followed Hatfield to Clemson University where the Tigers won the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship in 1991.
With a chance to return to his native state of Texas, Ellis moved to Waco in 1992. He was Baylor University's deputy athletic director under Grant Teaff, who at the time was both head football coach and AD. A year later when Teaff retired, he was promoted to director of athletics. Following a change in Baylor presidents, Ellis left Waco and came to Rice in 1997.

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