Jules V. Sikes | |
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Birth Date: | 22 October 1904 |
Birth Place: | Leonard, Texas, U.S. |
Death Place: | Commerce, Texas, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1925–1927 |
Player Team2: | Texas A&M |
Player Sport3: | Basketball |
Player Years4: | 1926–1928 |
Player Team4: | Texas A&M |
Player Sport5: | Baseball |
Player Years6: | 1926–1928 |
Player Team6: | Texas A&M |
Player Positions: | End (football) |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1928 |
Coach Team2: | Blinn |
Coach Years3: | 1929–1930 |
Coach Team3: | Burleson |
Coach Years4: | 1935–1937 |
Coach Team4: | Texas A&M (assistant) |
Coach Years5: | 1938–1942 |
Coach Team5: | Georgia (ends) |
Coach Years6: | 1943 |
Coach Team6: | Saint Mary's Pre-Flight (assistant) |
Coach Years7: | 1944 |
Coach Team7: | Saint Mary's Pre-Flight |
Coach Years8: | 1945–1947 |
Coach Team8: | Georgia (ends) |
Coach Years9: | 1948–1953 |
Coach Team9: | Kansas |
Coach Years10: | 1954–1963 |
Coach Team10: | East Texas State |
Coach Sport11: | Basketball |
Coach Years12: | 1928–1929 |
Coach Team12: | Blinn |
Coach Years13: | 1930–1931 |
Coach Team13: | East Texas State (freshmen) |
Coach Years14: | 1931–1935 |
Coach Team14: | East Texas State |
Coach Sport15: | Baseball |
Coach Years16: | 1929 |
Coach Team16: | Blinn |
Coach Years17: | 1936–1937 |
Coach Team17: | Texas A&M |
Coach Years18: | 1938–1942 |
Coach Team18: | Georgia |
Coach Years19: | 1946–1947 |
Coach Team19: | Georgia |
Overall Record: | 102–63–4 (college football) 36–37 (college basketball) 126–79–3 (college baseball) |
Bowl Record: | 2–0 |
Championships: | Football 5 LSC (1954–1955, 1957–1959) Baseball 1 SWC (1937) |
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Jules Verne "Siki" Sikes (October 22, 1904 – May 20, 1964) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He was a graduate of Texas A&M University where he was a three-sport star, lettering three years each in baseball, basketball and football. He played end for Dana X. Bible's Texas A&M football teams from 1925 to 1927 and was All-Southwest Conference and mentioned as All-American. He played minor league baseball with Shreveport, Louisiana of the Class A Texas League after college. Sikes was an assistant coach for ends at the University of Georgia in Wally Butts first year as head football coach in 1939 until leaving for Kansas after the 1947 season, interrupted by service in World War II. He coached the Kansas Jayhawks from 1948 to 1953, compiling a 35–25 record. He succeeded George Sauer who left Kansas for United States Naval Academy. From 1954 to 1963, he coached at East Texas State University, amassing a 63–34–4 record. The Lions won five Lone Star Conference championships during his tenure and won both the Tangerine Bowl twice, at the end of the 1957 and 1958 seasons. He was a proponent of the T formation.
Sikes died on May 20, 1964, in Commerce, Texas, after collapsing on the golf course at East Texas State.[1]