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 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