Jim Johnson (coach)
Johnson pictured in The Tecoan 1947, ECU yearbook | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 10, 1912 Cary, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | November 27, 2004 (aged 92) Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1933–1937 | East Carolina |
| Position(s) | Tackle |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1946–1948 | East Carolina |
| Basketball | |
| 1946–1947 | East Carolina |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 8–18–1 (football) 17–10 (basketball) |
James Archie Johnson Jr. (September 10, 1912 – November 27, 2004) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was tapped to reintroduce men's sports to East Carolina after World War II. He was the seventh head coach of the football, basketball and baseball teams at East Carolina Teachers College. He also was the athletic director for all sports teams. Before coaching, Johnson was a 16 letter winning athlete between 1933 and 1937. Johnson was inducted in 1978 into the ECU Hall of Fame.