Education
Rice University.
Rice University.
He was the head coach of Rice from 1949 to 1959. He coached Rice to a 132-105 record, winning one Southwest Conference championship and making one National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament appearance. He also played college basketball and football as a student at Rice.
After leaving his coaching position, he took a front office position under Bud Adams for the Houston Oilers.
He was inducted into the Rice athletics Hall of Fame in 1987. He left Rice to become General Manager of the new Houston Oilers.
In his two seasons as General Motors the Oilers combined record was 20 -7 -1. Suman died on February 5, 2015 in Houston.