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]