Jim Copeland | |
Birth Date: | March 5, 1945 |
Birth Place: | Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. |
Death Place: | Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. |
Number: | 64 |
College: | Virginia |
Draftedyear: | 1967 |
Draftedround: | 10 / Pick 255 |
Stats: | y |
Databasefootball-Archive: | https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231918/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=COPELJIM01 |
Playing Years1: | 1967–1974 |
Playing Team1: | Cleveland Browns |
Wyatt James Copeland Jr. (March 5, 1945 – June 4, 2010) was an American football player and college athletics administrator. He played as an offensive lineman for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Copeland was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1945 and attended the University of Virginia. He was drafted in the tenth round by the Cleveland Browns in the 1967 NFL/AFL draft.
Copeland later served as the athletic director at the College of William & Mary, the University of Utah, the University of Virginia and Southern Methodist University (SMU).