James Satterfield (October 11, 1939 – May 6, 2019) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...

coach. He served as head football coach at

Furman University Furman University is a private liberal arts university in Greenville, South Carolina. Founded in 1826 and named for the clergyman Richard Furman, Furman University is the oldest private institution of higher learning in South Carolina. It beca ...

from 1986 to 1993, where he compiled a record of 66–29–3.

Career

Satterfield was named the

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in 1988 after leading Furman to an overall 13–2 record while being

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co-champions and then defeating

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in the

1988 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game The 1988 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Georgia Southern Eagles and the Furman Paladins. The game was played on December 17, 1988, at Holt Arena in Pocatello, Idaho. The culm ...

. Satterfield was the second Furman football head coach to be the AFCA Division I-AA Coach of the Year; in 1985, three years earlier,

Dick Sheridan Dick Sheridan (born August 9, 1941) is a former American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Furman University from 1978 to 1985 and North Carolina State University from 1986 to 1992, compi ...

won the award after leading the Paladins to a 12–2 record and a close two-point loss in the National Championship game. Satterfield was the head football coach at Lexington High School, in

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from 1996 to 2003.

Death

Satterfield died of complications from heart surgery in 2019 at the age of 79.

Head coaching record

College

References

1939 births 2019 deaths Furman Paladins football coaches High school football coaches in South Carolina People from Lancaster, South Carolina Sports coaches from South Carolina {{1980s-collegefootball-coach-stub