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Harbaugh coming back to the Bay Area
By Jeremy Kahn December 18, 2006 |
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In what Bob Bowlsby’s first major hire since becoming the Athletic Director at Stanford brings a familiar name back to the Farm. The last name is Harbaugh, and it is new head coach of the Stanford Cardinal is not Jack Harbaugh, but it is his son Jim. Harbaugh, who played 15 seasons in the National Football League with the Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts and the San Diego Chargers, was the head coach of the University of San Diego Toreros. In just three seasons while coaching the Toreros, Harbaugh led the team a 29-6 record in those three seasons, including winning 27 out of their last 29. Before becoming the head coach at San Diego, Harbaugh was an assistant coach for the Oakland Raiders. Harbaugh’s father Jack was an assistant coach at Stanford in the early 1980s, and the younger Harbaugh actually went to high school at Palo Alto High, which across El Camino Real from Stanford Stadium. After leaving Palo Alto High School, Harbaugh went on to the University of Michigan, where he played for the late Bo Schembechler from 1983-1986. While at the Ann Arbor campus, Harbaugh led the Wolverines to the 1986 Fiesta Bowl, where they defeated the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers 27-23. As a senior, Harbaugh led the Wolverines to the Rose Bowl, but the Arizona State Sun Devils defeated the Wolverines, by the final score of 22-15. Since the departure of Tyrone Willingham after the 2001 season, the Cardinal are 16-40 under Buddy Teevens and Walt Harris, who was fired by Bowlsby just days after the season ended. In his two seasons on the Farm, Harris went 5-17, including 1-11 this past season, the worst record for the Cardinal since they went 0-10 in 1960. |
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