Jim Meade

James Gordon Meade Jr., known as Jim Meade, lived from February 28, 1914 to August 7, 1977 and was an American football player, coach and college athletics administrator. He played professionally as a halfback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins from 1939 to 1945. At the University of Maryland he played both college football and lacrosse, and he was inducted into the University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982. After serving as a paratrooper in World War II he became backfield coach of the football team at Furman University, a post he held from 1946 to 1951, and he was also the school's athletic director from 1949 to 1951. Later he helped create the Peachtree City Recreation Department in Georgia and served on the board of the McIntosh Arts Council there.