Jim Parmer
Appearance
![]() Parmer on a 1955 Bowman football card | |
Born: | Dallas, Texas | April 25, 1927
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Died: | April 20, 2005 Lubbock, Texas | (aged 77)
Career information | |
Position(s) | Fullback / halfback |
College | Oklahoma State |
NFL draft | 1948, round: 25 / Pick 234 |
Career history | |
As player | |
1948–1956 | Philadelphia Eagles |
James Richard Parmer (April 25, 1927 – April 20, 2005) was an American football running back in the National Football League who played for nine seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles. He later worked as a scout.
Parmer served as an assistant coach for the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team under DeWitt Weaver during the 1960 season.[1]
During the fourth episode of Hard Knocks, team General Manager Jeff Ireland revealed that Parmer was his grandfather.
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Categories:
- 1927 births
- 2005 deaths
- Sportspeople from Dallas
- Players of American football from Texas
- American football fullbacks
- American football halfbacks
- Texas A&M Aggies football players
- Oklahoma State Cowboys football players
- Texas Tech Red Raiders football coaches
- Philadelphia Eagles players
- American football running back, 1920s birth stubs