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James Dickey (basketball)
James Dickey (1923–1997) was an American poet and novelist. James Dickey may also refer to: * James Edward Dickey (1864–1928), American Methodist Episcopal bishop * James Dickey (basketball, born 1954), American basketball coach * James Dickey (basketball, born 1996), American basketball player * Jim Dickey (1934–2018), American football coach * James Dickey (United Irishmen) (1775/76–1798), Ulster Presbyterian barrister and member of the Society of the United Irishmen * James Dickey (Texas politician) (born 1966), American politician {{hndis, Dickey, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dickey
James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award. Dickey is best known for his novel ''Deliverance'' (1970), which was adapted into the acclaimed 1972 film of the same name. Early years Dickey was born to lawyer Eugene Dickey and Maibelle Swift in Atlanta, Georgia, where he attended North Fulton High School in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood. After graduation from North Fulton High in 1941, Dickey completed a postgraduate year at Darlington School in Rome, Georgia. Dickey asked to be dismissed from the Darlington rolls in a 1981 letter to the principal, deeming the school the most "disgusting combination of cant, hypocrisy, cruelty, class privilege and inanity I have ever since encountered at any human institution." In 1942, he enrolled at Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina and played on the football tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Edward Dickey
James Edward Dickey (1864 – 1928) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1922. Birth and family James was born 11 May 1864 in Jeffersonville, Georgia, the son of the Rev. James Madison and Ann Elizabeth (Thomas) Dickey. He was a descendant of John Dickey, who emigrated from Derry, Ireland in 1753. Another ancestor was an English settler in Maryland. Both James' parents were of Revolutionary stock. James married Jessie Munroe 9 September 1891. They had children Julia, Annie, Jessie, Claire, Edna, and James Edward, Jr. Education James was educated in the Atlanta, Gainesville and Elbertson schools. He earned an A.B. degree from Emory College in Oxford, Georgia, class of 1891. He was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity. Ordained and academic ministry James joined the Itinerant Ministry of the North Georgia Annual Conference of the M.E. Church, South in 1891. He was an Adjunct Professor of Mental and Moral Science at Emory College, beginni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dickey (basketball, Born 1954)
James Allen Dickey (born April 2, 1954) is an American college basketball coach and current Senior Advisor of men's basketball at West Virginia University. He was most recently an assistant coach at Oklahoma State University. He previously served as the men's head coach at Texas Tech University from 1991 to 2001, where he led the Red Raiders to the NCAA tournament in 1993 and again in 1996, and at the University of Houston from 2010 to 2014. Biography Early years Dickey attended Valley Springs High School, where he played basketball from 1970 to 1972. He later played for Central Arkansas from 1972 to 1976. Coaching career Dickey's best team was the Texas Tech's 1996 unit, which finished 30–2, including an undefeated record in the final season of Southwest Conference play. They won the SWC conference tournament and advanced all the way to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. The Raiders moved to the Big 12 for the 1996–97 season, and appeared to pick up right where the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dickey (basketball, Born 1996)
James L. Dickey III (born November 28, 1996) is an American basketball player who plays the power forward and center positions. He plays for Prometey of the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League. He played college basketball for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with whom he was the 2017–18 Southern Conference Defensive Player of the Year. During his college career he led the Southern Conference once in rebounds, and twice in blocked shots. Early life Dickey is the son of James Dickey Jr. and Joanne Jeffreys. He has one sibling, an older sister Auriel. His hometown is Raleigh, North Carolina. He stands 6' 10" (208 cm), and weighs 215 pounds (98 kg). High school career Dickey attended and played basketball at Word of God Christian Academy in North Carolina. He averaged 10.2 points, 12.4 rebounds, and 4.8 blocks per game as a senior. He was ranked the No. 20 overall prospect in North Carolina in the class of 2015, and was rated the No. 4 power forward in the class. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Dickey
James Dickey (March 22, 1934 – February 17, 2018) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State University from 1978 to 1985, compiling record of 24–54–2. In 1981, he redshirted 18 players, including eight seniors and almost all of his best players. With all of those players returning the following season in 1982, Dickey led Kansas State to their first bowl game appearance in school history, the Independence Bowl, where they lost to the Wisconsin Badgers. 1982 was also the first winning season for the program since 1970 under head coach Vince Gibson. After opening the 1985 season with two consecutive losses to I-AA teams, Dickey was forced to resign on September 15. Assistant athletic director Lee Moon coached the team for the remainder of the season posting a 1–8 record. Dickey was the father of the former Kansas State quarterback and former head football coach at the University of North Texas, Darrell Dickey Darr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dickey (United Irishmen)
James Dickey (1775/1776 – 26 June 1798) was a young barrister from a Presbyterian family in Crumlin in the north of Ireland who was active in the Society of the United Irishmen and was hanged with Henry Joy McCracken for leading rebels at the Battle of Antrim. The United Irishmen The Society of United Irishmen was formed in October 1791 by leading citizens in Belfast who sought a representative government in Ireland based on principles they believed had been modelled by the American and French Revolutions. At their first meeting they embraced the argument of Theobald Wolfe Tone for a “brotherhood of affection” between Irishmen of all religious persuasions. Tone argued that in Ireland the landed Anglican Ascendancy and the English appointed Irish executive employed division between Protestants and Catholics to balance “the one party by the other, plunder and laugh at the defeat of both.” Rebellion Despairing of reform, and in the hope of French assistance, in May 1798 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
