draftyear finalyear death_date debutyear statvalue birth_place article_title position draftround college birth_date nfl number image draftpick statlabel name
1953 1956 26 may 2003 1953 11 -- 16 1482 51.0 toledo , ohio jim root -lrb- american football -rrb-
 quarterback 23 miami -lrb- oh -rrb- 17 august 1931 roo692150 9 , 17 jim root.jpeg 268 td -- int yards qb rating jim root
jim root -lrb- american football -rrb-

james frederic root -lrb- august 17 , 1931 -- may 26 , 2003 -rrb- was an american gridiron football player and coach .
he played professionally as a quarterback in the national football league -lrb- nfl -rrb- for two seasons with the chicago cardinals -lrb- 1953 , 1956 -rrb- and in the canadian football league -lrb- cfl -rrb- for one season with the ottawa rough riders -lrb- 1954 -rrb- .
root served as the head football coach at the university of new hampshire from 1968 to 1971 and at the college of william & mary from 1972 to 1979 , compiling a career college football record of 57 -- 62 -- 2 in 12 seasons .
root was a native of toledo , ohio .
he played college football at miami university under woody hayes and ara parseghian .
root began his coaching career in 1958 as the backfield coach at tulane university .
he moved to the university of miami as backfield coach in 1960 .
root then coached for one season , in 1964 , as offensive backfield coach at dartmouth college , before moving to yale university , where he served in the same capacity for three seasons .
