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Don James (rugby Player) , American businessman
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Don or Donald James may refer to: * Don James (American football) (1932–2013), American college football coach * Don James (executive), Nintendo executive * Don James (rugby union) (born 1964), American rugby union player * Donald James (1931–2008), English novelist and television writer * Donald James (surfer) (died 1996), American surfer * Chris James (baseball) (Donald Chris James, born 1962), American baseball player * Donald M. James Donald M. James (born January 20, 1949) is an American lawyer and businessman. He served as the chief executive officer of Vulcan Materials Company from 1997 to 2014. Early life James was born on January 20, 1949, in Russellville, Alabama. He gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don James (American Football)
Donald Earl James (December 31, 1932 – October 20, 2013) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Kent State University from 1971 to 1974 and at the University of Washington from 1975 to 1992, compiling a career college football record of His 1991 Washington team won a share of the national championship after completing a season with a decisive win over Michigan in the Rose Bowl. James was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach Early years James was born in 1932 at his family's home on the outskirts of Massillon, Ohio. He was the fourth of five sons. Four of the five played football, and the eldest, Tommy, starred at Ohio State on the 1942 national championship team, and played professional football for a decade James attended Massillon Washington High School, played quarterback for the football team (1948, 1949), and graduated College football and military service James attended the University of Miami on a football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don James (executive)
Don James is an American video game executive and currently serves as the executive vice president of operations for Nintendo of America. As a key member of the team led by Howard Lincoln and Minoru Arakawa, James played a critical role in the reintroduction of home video game consoles in North America after the Video Game Crash of 1983, when the Nintendo Entertainment System spawned a late-1980s rebirth of video games. After the collapse of the home video game industry in 1983-84, retailers and press widely agreed that "video game consoles are dead, and the computer game industry is a niche market which mass market retailers should ignore." Arakawa, Lincoln and James coordinated the introduction of the NES while struggling to overcome that skepticism, and ultimately paved the way for Nintendo (and, to a lesser extent, Sega and Atari) to rebuild the multibillion-dollar industry during the last half of the decade. James joined Nintendo of America in August 1981, and his employ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don James (rugby Union)
Donald William James Jr. (born September 26, 1964) is an American former international rugby union player. A tighthead prop, James won four national titles at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also played football as a defensive lineman. He earned second-team All-Pac-10 honors for football in 1983 and played in the 1984 Japan Bowl. James played rugby with Oxford University in 1989, appearing alongside countryman Gary Hein in the Varsity match, to gain his blue. He was capped nine times for the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ... during the early 1990s. See also * List of United States national rugby union players References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:James, Don 1964 births Living people American rugby union players United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald James
Donald James (born Donald James Wheal; 22 August 1931 – 28 April 2008) was a British television writer, novelist and non-fiction writer. Life and career Born in World's End, Chelsea, and educated at Sloane Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge (where he read history), James completed his national service in the Parachute Regiment before returning to London to work as a supply teacher. He was the author of the best-selling novels ''Vadim'', ''Monstrum'', ''The Fortune Teller'' and ''The Fall of the Russian Empire'', as well as non-fiction books such as ''The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich''. He wrote under a number of pseudonyms, notably Thomas Dresden and James Barwick (originally in collaboration with fellow writer Tony Barwick, another long-term contributor to the various television productions of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and their company, AP Films/ Century 21). James's career as a scriptwriter included work on TV series such as '' The Adventurer'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald James (surfer)
Doctor Donald ''Don'' James (died December 24, 1996) was a pioneer of early surfing in California prior to the WWII and surf photographer. His published works include many 1960s surf magazine covers. The early 1990s brought a resurgence of long board surfing and with it, a new 1992 VHS video titled Dr. "Don James presents: Surfing in the 1930s". It premiered pre World War II color footage of surfing to the surfing industry and a verbal history of the golden age of surfing / produced by Brad Jennings and Gene Walper / 1992/93, Other separate projects included The books: "Prewar Surfing" and "1936-1942 San Onofre to Point Dume Point Dume is a promontory on the coast of Malibu, California that juts out into the Pacific Ocean. The point, a long bluff, forms the northern end of the Santa Monica Bay. Point Dume Natural Area affords a vista of the Palos Verdes Peninsula a ...". James began surf photography while he was in high school, taking pictures of his pals, Ed Faron, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris James (baseball)
Donald Chris James (born October 4, 1962) is an American former professional baseball utility player, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) 10 years (–), for eight teams: the National League (NL) Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, and Houston Astros; and the American League (AL) Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, Kansas City Royals, and Boston Red Sox. Over the course of James’ MLB career, he played first base, third base, outfield, and designated hitter. Early life James graduated from Stratford High School, in 1981. James is the brother of former SMU and New England Patriots running back Craig James, who appeared on television for ABC, ESPN, and CBS, as a college football analyst, after his NFL career ended. Career On May 4, 1991, while playing for the Indians, James had 9 runs batted in (RBI) in a 20 to 6 win over the Oakland Athletics, thereby setting that franchise’s single-game RBI record. In 946 games over 10 seasons, James posted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
