James Perry (American football)


James Perry is an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at his alma mater, Brown University, where he was a starting quarterback 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, 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 passing records. Perry received Ivy League Player of the Year in 1999. He was inducted into the Brown Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016.
Perry served as the head coach at Bryant University from 2017 to 2018, where he posted a record of 12–10.

Head coaching record