Jim Harbaugh
James Joseph Harbaugh is an American football coach and former quarterback. He played in the National Football League for 14 seasons from 1987 to 2000. He then served as the head coach of the San Diego Toreros, the Stanford Cardinal, and the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers. In 2015, Harbaugh returned to his alma mater, Michigan. He and his older brother, Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh, became the first pair of brothers to serve as head coaches in NFL history.
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James Joseph Harbaugh is an American football coach and former quarterback. He played college football at Michigan for coach Bo Schembechler from 1983 to 1986 and played in the National Football League for 14 seasons from 1987 to 2000. He then served as the head coach of the San Diego Toreros, the Stanford Cardinal, and the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers. In 2015, Harbaugh returned to his alma mater, Michigan. He and his older brother, Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh, became the first pair of brothers to serve as head coaches in NFL history. He is the son of Jacqueline M. and Jack Harbaugh. His mother is of half-Sicilian and half-Polish ancestry and his father is of Irish and German ancestry. Both Jim and his brother John were born in Toledo, Ohio, while his father was an assistant football coach at nearby Perrysburg High School in Perrysburg. He attended high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Palo Alto, California. He graduated from Palo Alto High School, graduating in 1982. After graduation from high school, he enrolled at the University of Michigan and played quarterback for the Wolverines, starting for three seasons. He also played for the junior league Ann Arbor Packers and then for Tappan Junior High before moving on to Pioneer High School. While still playing in the NFL, Harbaugh was an unpaid assistant coach at Western Kentucky University, where his father Jack was head coach. In 2002, he returned to the NFL as the quarterbacks coach for the Oakland Raiders.
After leading San Diego to consecutive Pioneer League championships in 2005 and 2006, he moved to Stanford in 2007, where he led the Cardinal to two bowl berths in four seasons, including a win in the 2011 Orange Bowl. His teams played in a Thanksgiving Classic game in 2011 and in Super Bowl XLVII on February 3, 2013. While Harbaugh was touted as the future of the team, he spent the 1983 season as Michigan’s No. 3 quarterback behind Steve Smith and Dave Hall. He led Michigan to the 1987 Rose Bowl and was a Heisman Trophy finalist, finishing third. In 1995 with Indianapolis, he was selected to the AFC Championship Game, was honored as NFL Comeback Player of the Year and was named to the Pro Bowl. In 2004, Harbaugh signed a five-year deal as head coach to the 49ers, and led the team to the NFC Championship game in each of his first three seasons after the franchise missed the playoffs for eight consecutive seasons beforehand. He has a son, John, and a daughter, Kaley, who is a junior at Michigan and a senior at Ohio State. His father, Jack Harbaugh, was a football coach, and the family lived in Ohio, Kentucky, Iowa, Michigan,. and California, when his father held assistant coaching positions at Morehead State, Bowling Green, Iowa, Michigan, Stanford, and Western Michigan. The family moved frequently, as his dad held assistant coach positions at morehead State, Bowling Green, and Bowling Green.
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