Jim Pixlee Explained

Jim Pixlee
Birth Date:29 March 1889
Birth Place:Missouri, U.S.
Death Place:Cameron, Missouri, U.S.
Player Sport1:Football
Player Years2:1909
Player Team2:Missouri
Player Years3:1911–1912
Player Team3:Missouri
Player Positions:End
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1914–1916
Coach Team2:Missouri Wesleyan
Coach Years3:1919–1920
Coach Team3:Oklahoma A&M
Coach Years4:1922–1928
Coach Team4:Westminster (MO)
Coach Years5:1929–1937
Coach Team5:George Washington
Coach Sport6:Basketball
Coach Years7:1919–1921
Coach Team7:Oklahoma A&M
Coach Years8:1922–1929
Coach Team8:Westminster (MO)
Coach Years9:1930–1932
Coach Team9:George Washington
Coach Years10:1934–1935
Coach Team10:George Washington
Admin Years1:1914–1917
Admin Team1:Missouri Wesleyan
Admin Years2:1929–1938
Admin Team2:George Washington
Championships:Football
1 MIAA (1914)
2 MCAU (1924, 1926)

James Ebenezzar "Possum Jim" Pixlee (March 29, 1889 – February 17, 1967) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Missouri Wesleyan College from 1914 to 1916, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College—now known as Oklahoma State University–Stillwater— frin 1919 to 1920, Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri from 1922 to 1928, and George Washington University from 1929 to 1937. Pixlee was also the head basketball coach at Oklahoma A&M (1919–1921), Westminster (1922–1929), and George Washington (1930–1932).

Pixlee attended the University of Missouri, where he lettered in football during the 1909, 1911, and 1912 seasons. He was head coach of the Oklahoma A&M Aggies for the 1919 and 1920 football seasons. During this period, the team won three of their 16 games.[1] By 1929 Pixlee was director of athletics at Missouri's Westminster College.[2]

In 1929, Pixlee took over the head coaching position of the George Washington Colonials, starting with an 0–8 season. He went on to win more football games than any other coach in George Washington's history, leading the Colonials to records crowds and coaching Alphonse "Tuffy" Leemans, whom David Holt described as "perhaps GW's greatest athlete ever".[3] Pixlee left that position in 1937.

Pixlee was married to Blossom Pixlee. He died on February 17, 1967, at his home in Cameron, Missouri.[4]

Head coaching record

Football

Notes and References

  1. Web site: James e Pixlee Coaching Record - databaseFootball.com/College . March 15, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121020183617/http://www.databasefootball.com/College/coaches/coachpage.htm?CoachID=4246 . October 20, 2012 .
  2. News: . "Possum" Pixlee's Plan . . . January 10, 1929 . August 6, 2022 .
  3. Web site: When we played football: The GW boys of fall, 1890-1966 - Sports . July 23, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727164627/http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/1999/08/30/Sports/When-We.Played.Football.The.Gw.Boys.Of.Fall.18901966-16420.shtml . July 27, 2011 .
  4. News: . Long Career As Coach . . . February 19, 1967 . 26A . August 6, 2022 . .