Robert Hoxie Rutford (January 26, 1933 – December 1, 2019) was a president emeritus and a former faculty member of the

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. He was the second president of the University of Texas at Dallas from 1982 until 1994. Prior to coming to Dallas, Rutford was a professor at the

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and served as its interim

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from 1980 to 1981. He has been noted for his geological research on Antarctica. Rutford was a member of several

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expeditions to Antarctica, and was the leader of the

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Ellsworth Mountains Party, 1963–1964. Rutford served as director of the Division of Polar Programs of the

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from 1975 to 1977. The 14,688 foot/4,477 meter-high

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, which is the summit of Craddock Massif in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains in the Antarctic, was named for him in 2007. The 130 mile-long

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, a "mile-thick, fast flowing stream" which drains part of the West Antarctic ice sheet into the sea, had previously been named for him. Rutford served as the head football coach at

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, from 1958 to 1961.

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