Jim Hickey | |
Birth Date: | 22 January 1920 |
Birth Place: | Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Death Place: | Southern Pines, North Carolina, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1938–1941 |
Player Team2: | William & Mary |
Player Sport3: | Basketball |
Player Years4: | 1940, 1942 |
Player Team4: | William & Mary |
Player Positions: | Wingback, tailback (football) Guard (basketball) |
Coach Years1: | 1951–1955 |
Coach Team1: | Hampden–Sydney |
Coach Years2: | 1956–1958 |
Coach Team2: | North Carolina (assistant) |
Coach Years3: | 1959–1966 |
Coach Team3: | North Carolina |
Admin Years1: | 1951–1955 |
Admin Team1: | Hampden–Sydney |
Admin Years2: | 1966–1969 |
Admin Team2: | Connecticut |
Overall Record: | 63–56–4 |
Bowl Record: | 1–0 |
Championships: | 3 Virginia Little Six/Seven (1952–1953, 1955) 2 Mason-Dixon (1953–1954) 1 ACC (1963) |
Awards: | ACC Coach of the Year (1963) |
James Benton Hickey (January 22, 1920 – December 27, 1997) was an American football and basketball player, coach of football, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Hampden–Sydney College from 1951 to 1955 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1959 to 1966, compiling a career college football record of 63–56–4. Hickey was the athletic director at the University of Connecticut from 1966 to 1969.[1]
Hickey graduated from The College of William & Mary in 1942 and played wingback and tailback on the football team and guard on the basketball team. He was inducted into the William & Mary Athletics Hall of Fame in 1971. He served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the United States Navy during World War II. He coached football at Hampden–Sydney College for five years before joining the staff of Jim Tatum at the University of North Carolina in 1956 as an assistant. After Tatum's death in the summer of 1959, he accepted the position of head coach. Hickey was dismissed after the 1966 season and Bill Dooley succeeded him as North Carolina's head coach.[2]
Hickey was the son of William and Cora Hickey. He married Agnes Pauline Small Pardue on November 14, 1976, in Sanford, North Carolina. He died at the age of seventy-seven on December 27, 1997 and was buried at the Buffalo Cemetery in Sanford.[3] [4]