Jim Ballard

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Jim Ballard
Date of birth: April 16, 1972
Place of birth: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Career information
Position(s): Quarterback
College: Mount Union
College Football Hall of Fame

James "Jim" Ballard (born April 16, 1972) is a former Arena Football League quarterback for the Buffalo Destroyers in 2001 and the Indiana Firebirds in 2002 and 2003. Ballard also played in the Canadian Football League with the Toronto Argonauts in 2002 and 1999 and the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2000. Ballard's first experience with pro-football came in NFL Europe with the London Monarchs in 1995 and the Scottish Claymores in 1996 with whom he won the World Bowl IV Championship. Ballard would later re-join the Claymores in 1998.

As a coach, Ballard has experience at Mount Union College as QB coach in 1994-95, Alliance High School as QB coach in 1996 and 1998, Cuyahoga Falls High School as QB coach in 2001-04, and Assistant Head Coach of the Canton Legends of the American Indoor Football Association in 2005.

Recently, Ballard was named as the commissioner of the Continental Indoor Football League.

Ballard was an All-American at Mount Union College. In 2008 he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

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Gagliardi Trophy winners

1993: J. Ballard  | 1994: C. Bender  | 1995: C. Palmer  | 1996: L. Erickson  | 1997: B. Borchert  | 1998: S. Hvistendahl  | 1999: D. Ragsdale  | 2000: C. Johnson  | 2001: C. Moore  | 2002: D. Pugh  | 2003: B. Elliott  | 2004: R. Myers  | 2005: B. Elliott  | 2006: J. Brehm  | 2007: J. Beaver
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Toronto Argonauts Starting Quarterbacks
Mullan • Stukus • Krol • Dekdebrun • Wirkowski • Galiffa • Dublinski • Knox • Rote • Liske • Day • Gabler • Wilkinson • Jonas • Gabler • Theismann • Rae • Ealey • Adams • Holloway • Barnes • Holloway • Congemi • Renfroe • Foggie • Dunigan • Foggie • Kerrigan • Ham • Slack • White • Graves • Austin • Flutie • Bell • Barker • Kemp • Bell • Slack • Ballard • Allen • Wynn • Allen • Bishop • McMahon • Allen • Butler • Bishop • Joseph


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