Jerry Groom

American football player (1929–2008)

Jerry Groom
Career information
Groom on a 1951 Bowman football card
Date of birth	(1929-08-15)August 15, 1929
Place of birth	Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.
Date of death	February 29, 2008(2008-02-29) (aged 78)
Place of death	Sarasota, Florida, U.S.
Position(s)	DT / C / LB
US college	Notre Dame
High school	Dowling Catholic (Des Moines, Iowa)
NFL draft	1951 / Round: 1 / Pick 6
Career history
As player
1951–1955	Chicago Cardinals

Career highlights and awards
Consensus All-American (1950)
Pro Bowls	1954
Career stats
Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

College Football Hall of Fame

Jerome Paul "Boomer" Groom (August 15, 1929 – February 29, 2008) was an American football player. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he graduated from Dowling Catholic High School in Des Moines. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team and was a consensus selection at the center position on the 1950 College Football All-America Team.^[1] He then played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Cardinals from 1951 to 1955. He was chosen to play in the 1954 Pro Bowl.

Groom later served as a color commentator for the Denver Broncos' radio broadcasts in their inaugural American Football League (AFL) season in 1960. In 1994, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He died in 2008 at age 78 in Sarasota, Florida.

References

^ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 26, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2014.

v t e Chicago Cardinals 1951 NFL draft selections
Jerry Groom Don Joyce Don Stonesifer Dick Doyne Lynn Lynch Ed Jasonek Dick Punches Leo Sanford Neil Schmidt Ken Cooper Tom Bienemann Jack Landry Volney Peters Bill Leskovar John Simcic Gene Miller Henry May Russ Pomeroy Gene Ackerman Fred Wallner Dick Bunting S. J. Whitman Jim Owens Billy Cross Vernon Quick Jeff Fleischmann Ken Huxhold Dick Martin Bob Livingstone Leon Root

Chicago Cardinals 1951 NFL draft selections

v t e Arizona Cardinals first-round draft picks
Formerly the Chicago Cardinals (1920–1959), St. Louis Cardinals (1960–1987) and Phoenix Cardinals (1988–1993)
Lawrence Buivid Robbins Aldrich Cafego Kimbrough Lach Dobbs Harder Trippi D. Jones Coulter Spavital Fischer Groom Matson Olszewski McHan Boydston Childress Tubbs K. Hill Crow Stacy Izo K. Rice Echols Goode Stovall Brumm Kortas Namath McAdams D. L. Williams Lane Wehrli Stegent Thompson Moore Butz Cain Gray Dawson Pisarkiewicz Little Greene Anderson Greer Junior Sharpe Smith Duncan Nunn Bell Stouffer Harvey E. Hill Wolf Swann Hearst Dye Miller S. Rice Knight Wadsworth Boston Shelton T. Jones Davis Bryant B. Johnson Pace Fitzgerald Rolle Leinart Brown Rodgers-Cromartie Wells D. E. Williams Peterson Floyd Cooper Bucannon Humphries Nkemdiche Reddick Rosen Murray Simmons Collins P. Johnson Harrison Jr. Robinson

Arizona Cardinals first-round draft picks

Formerly the Chicago Cardinals (1920–1959), St. Louis Cardinals (1960–1987) and Phoenix Cardinals (1988–1993)

v t e 1950 College Football All-America Team consensus selections
Backfield	QB Babe Parilli HB Vic Janowicz HB Kyle Rote FB Leon Heath
Line	E Dan Foldberg E Bill McColl T Bob Gain T Jim Weatherall G Bud McFadin G Les Richter C Jerry Groom

v t e 1949 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football—AP national champions
Gus Cifelli Larry Coutre George Dickson Bill Gay Jerry Groom Leon Hart John Helwig Jim Martin John Mazur Leo McKillip Ralph McGehee Jim Mutscheller Chet Ostrowski John Petitbon Emil Sitko Frank Spaniel Mike Swistowicz Bob Toneff Fred Wallner Bill Wightkin Bob Williams Ernie Zalejski Head coach: Frank Leahy Assistant coaches: Bernie Crimmins John F. Druze Fred Miller