Archie Roberts (American football)

Archie Roberts
No. 16
Position: Quarterback
Personal information
Born: (1942-11-04) November 4, 1942
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Height: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight: 190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
High school: Holyoke (MA)
College: Columbia
AFL draft: 1965 / Round: 7 / Pick: 51
Career history
 * Offseason and/or practice squad member only
Career NFL statistics
Pass attempts: 10
Pass completions: 5
Completion percentage: 50%
TD-INT: 0–1
Yards: 11
QB Rating: 16.7
Player stats at NFL.com
Player stats at PFR

Arthur James Roberts, Jr.[1] (born November 4, 1942)[2] is a retired cardiac surgeon and former collegiate and professional football player. He played at Columbia University.[3] He was drafted in the seventh round of the 1965 American Football League (AFL) draft by the New York Jets. In 1967, he was traded to the AFL Miami Dolphins,[4] playing only one game with the team, in the final minutes of a 41–0 loss.[5]

Roberts subsequently became a cardiac surgeon after graduating from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.[6][7] He performed over 4,000 open-heart operations before retiring.[7] He founded the New Jersey-based[1] Living Heart Foundation in 2001.[7][1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "About LHF". Living Heart Foundation. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Archie Roberts". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ Eskenazi, Gerald (October 10, 1963). "Yale's Antidote for Columbia Is the 'Archie Roberts Defense'". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ "Roberts Traded To Miami Team". Hartford Courant. September 27, 1967.
  5. ↑ Schonbrun, Zach (November 1, 2015). "It May Be Just Academic, but Fitzpatrick Is Near a Hall of Famer's Record". The New York Times.
  6. ↑ Valenti, John (January 10, 1990). "Heart Of A Lion Ex-Columbia quarterback and shortstop Archie Roberts is a distinguished cardiac surgeon who rarely dwells on his glorious athletic past". Newsday.
  7. 1 2 3 Livingston, Bill (January 5, 2013). "Archie Roberts did not make much of a mark with the Cleveland Browns, but made an indelible mark on the NFL". Cleveland Plain Dealer. Retrieved November 8, 2015.


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