Jim Bakhtiar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jim Bakhtiar

American football player

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1934

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Profession: American football player

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Jim Bakhtiar

  • Jamshid Abol Hassen "Jim" Bakhtiar (born January 8, 1934) is a former American football player.
  • He was born in Tehran, Iran, and emigrated to the United States as a boy.
  • He attended the University of Virginia where he played college football at the fullback and placekicker positions for the Virginia Cavaliers football team from 1955 to 1957.
  • In September 1956, he set an Atlantic Coast Conference single-game record with 210 rushing yards against VMI.
  • He was selected by the Football Writers Association of America as a first-team back on its 1957 College Football All-America Team.
  • He later played in the Canadian Football League with the Calgary Stampeders in 1958 before enrolling in medical school at the University of Virginia.
  • He graduated with a medical degree with an emphasis in psychiatry in 1963.
  • He returned to Iran where he established the country's first modern psychiatric unit.
  • Following the Iranian Revolution, he fled to Turkey with his family and returned to the United States.

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