Jim Meade

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherExpression error: Unexpected < operator.Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". James Gordon Meade Jr. (February 28, 1914 – August 7, 1977) was an American football player, coach and college athletics administrator. He played professionally as a halfback in the National Football League (NFL) for the 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 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

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