Philip Heckman Arbuckle (September 6, 1882 – June 11, 1932) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator.

[1] Arbuckle served as Rice University's first athletic director and football coach in 1912.

His teams played against local high schools until Rice joined the Southwest Conference in 1914.

[2] Arbuckle also served as the head coach of the baseball, basketball and track teams and taught English and history.

He was succeeded by John Heisman in 1924 and inducted into the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame in 1975.