National Football Foundation

Jim Brownfield coached John Muir High School (Calif.) to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s as the football and girl’s track and cross country coach. Brownfield led the football team to an 84-14-1 record and won two California Interscholastic Federation – Southern Section titles in 1985 and 1986. The girls track team was a perfect 91-0 with 13 Pacific League titles in his 12 seasons as a track coach. His girl’s cross country team was also perfect with a 16-0 record and they took home two Pacific League titles. Brownfield coached two future Olympic gold medalists.
 
Brownfield was a teacher and coach for more than 40 years in southern California, including stints as a head football coach at Loyola Marymount and as an assistant coach at USC under College Football Hall of Fame coach John McKay. He was enshrined into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1998. Brownfield served as president of the Pasadena Chapter of the National Football Foundation. The chapter is recognized as one of the most successful with the amount of scholar-athletes they honor, a successful golf tournament, a Youth Passing League, a coaching clinic and they sponsor an all-star game in Pasadena.