Jim Meade

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Jim Meade
No. 49
Position:Halfback
Personal information
Born:(1914-02-28)February 28, 1914
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died:August 7, 1977(1977-08-07) (aged 63)
Clayton County, Georgia, U.S.
Height:6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
High school:Tome School
(North East, Maryland)
College:Maryland
Career history
As a player:
  • Washington Redskins
    (1939–1940)
As a coach:
  • Furman (1946–1951) (backfield)
As an administrator:
  • Furman (1949–1951) (athletic director)

James Gordon Meade Jr. (February 28, 1914 – August 7, 1977) was an

Washington Redskins
from 1939 to 1945.

Meade played college football and lacrosse at the University of Maryland.

Biography

After serving as a paratrooper in World War II, Meade became the backfield coach for the football team at Furman University, and held that job from 1946 to 1951. He was also the school's athletic director from 1949 to 1951.

Meade later helped to create the Peachtree City Recreation Department and was a board member of the McIntosh Arts Council in Peachtree City, Georgia.[1]

Meade was inducted into the University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982.[2]

References

  1. Newspapers.com Open access icon
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  2. ^ University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame: All-Time Inductees Archived July 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, University of Maryland, retrieved June 12, 2009.

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