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Jim LaRue, 89, American football player and coach (Arizona Wildcats).
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|Jim Elmer LaRue (August 11, 1925 – March 29, 2015) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the Arizona from 1959 to 1966, compiling a record of 41–37–2. LaRue played six seasons of varsity football at three different schools: Carson–Newman (1942), Duke (1943–1944), and Maryland (1947–1949). He served as an assistant coach in college at Houston and Wake Forest, and professionally with the Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He was part of the Bears staff that won Super Bowl XX 46–10 over the New England Patriots. LaRue died on March 29, 2015, in Tucson, Arizona, aged 89, from undisclosed causes.
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