University of Maine Athletics

Jim Butterfield was an All-Yankee Conference football player, who helped lead Maine to an undefeated season in 1951. Jim served as team captain in 1951 and had the Jim Butterfield Scout Team Player of the Year Award established in his honor in 1990. Jim served as assistant football coach from 1956-59. Following his days at Maine, Jim became the head football coach at Ithaca College in New York, where he won the NCAA III National Championship in 1979 and 1988. He was coach of the year seven times.