James Perry is 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 wi ...

coach and former player. He is the head football coach at his alma mater, Brown University, where he was a starting

quarterback The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...

in the late 1990s.

Biography

Perry is the youngest of seven children by Massachusetts hall of fame track and field coach Ernest Perry Jr. While a student at

Malden Catholic High School Malden Catholic High School is a private, Catholic secondary school located in Malden, Massachusetts. The school was founded by the Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier, an international congregation of religious brothers. It is ...

, Perry played football, basketball, and track, receiving the Phelps Scholar-Athlete Award in 1996. He played quarterback at Brown, earning a number of school and

Ivy League The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The term ''Ivy League'' is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight school ...

passing records. Perry served as the head coach at Bryant University from 2017 to 2018, where he posted a record of 12–10.

Honors and awards

* Phelps Scholar-Athlete Award, 1996 * Ivy League Player of the Year, 1999 * Ivy League Bushnell Cup, 1999 * Brown Athletic Hall of Fame, 2016

Head coaching record

References

External links

Brown profile

Bryant profile
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