Jack Harbaugh
| Jack Harbaugh | |
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 Jack Harbaugh attends the 2014 press conference introducing son Jim Harbaugh as Michigan head coach. | |
| Sport(s) | Football |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
June 28, 1939 Crestline, Ohio |
| Playing career | |
| 1957–1960 1961 |
Bowling Green Titans of New York |
| Position(s) | Defensive back, quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1964–1965 1966 1967 1968–1970 1971–1973 1973–1979 1980–1981 1982–1986 1987–1988 1989–2002 2004–2006 2009 |
Eaton (OH) HS Xenia (OH) HS Morehead State (assistant) Bowling Green (assistant) Iowa (assistant) Michigan (DB) Stanford (DC) Western Michigan Pittsburgh (assistant) Western Kentucky San Diego (RB) Stanford (RB) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 117–94–3 (.554) (includes forfeit by Temple in 1986) |
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Statistics | |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
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Championships
As a player 1959 Mid-American Conference Champions 1959 NCAA Division II National Champions As a coach 1966 Western Ohio League Champions 2000 Ohio Valley Conference Champions 2002 Gateway Football Conference Co-Champions 2002 NCAA FCS National Champions | |
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Awards | |
Jack Avon Harbaugh[1] (born June 28, 1939) is a former American football player and coach, and the father of the first pair of brothers to serve as NFL head coaches and the first pair of head coaching brothers to face off in a Super Bowl: John and Jim Harbaugh.
Early life and playing career
Harbaugh was born in Crestline, Ohio to Marie Evelyn (née Fisher) and William Avon Harbaugh. He is of German and Irish descent.[1] He played college football for the Bowling Green State University Falcons from 1957 to 1960, where he was a three-time letterman. In his junior year, the Falcons finished the season 9–0 and were named the small college division national champions.[2][3] Harbaugh played professionally for one season, 1961, in the American Football League for the New York Titans, a team that would be renamed the New York Jets two years later.[4]
Coaching career
Harbaugh began as an assistant coach to Jack Donaldson at Perrysburg High School in Perrysburg, Ohio, southwest of Toledo. (Donaldson later went on to coach the University of Toledo and in the NFL.) Both sons were born while Harbaugh was in Perrysburg. In 1964, Harbaugh was the head coach of Eaton High School football team in Eaton, Ohio. His record was 5–4–1, their first winning season in many years. In 1965 the team went 6–4. In 1966, Harbaugh was the head coach of the Xenia High School football team in Xenia, Ohio.
His record for the one year that he coached was 8–1–1.[5] From 1982 to 1986, he served as the head football coach at Western Michigan University and compiled a 26–26–3 record. From 1989 to 2002, he was the head football coach at Western Kentucky University and posted a 91–68 record, including three 10-win seasons during his tenure with the Hilltoppers. His 2002 squad won the NCAA Division I-AA national football championship.
After leaving Western Kentucky, Harbaugh served as an associate athletic director at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where his son-in-law, Tom Crean, was the head coach of the men's basketball team.
Harbaugh has also served as an assistant coach at Morehead State University, Bowling Green State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of San Diego. Harbaugh retired in 2006, but served as Stanford's running backs coach in the 2009 Sun Bowl under his son, Jim. Jack filled in for Willie Taggart, who had recently been hired as the new head football coach at WKU.
Personal life
Harbaugh married his wife, Jacqueline M. "Jackie" Cipiti in 1961. Their two sons, Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh and Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh are the first pair of brothers to serve as head coaches in the National Football League (NFL):[6] The brothers coached their teams in a game unofficially nicknamed the 'Harbaugh Bowl' on Thanksgiving Day, 2011, one day before Jack and Jackie's 50th wedding anniversary. They faced each other again in a second 'Harbaugh Bowl' when Baltimore beat San Francisco February 3, 2013 at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans by a score of 34–31.[7] Their son-in-law (daughter Joani's husband), Tom Crean, is head basketball coach for the Indiana University Hoosiers. Jack and Jackie Harbaugh settled in Mequon, Wisconsin when he took the position as Associate Athletic Director for Marquette University in Milwaukee.[8] Harbaugh is a member of the Bowling Green State University chapter of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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| Western Michigan Broncos (Mid-American Conference) (1982–1986) | |||||||||
| 1982 | Western Michigan | 7–2–2 | 5–2–2 | 2nd | |||||
| 1983 | Western Michigan | 6–5 | 4–5 | 6th | |||||
| 1984 | Western Michigan | 5–6 | 3–6 | T–8th | |||||
| 1985 | Western Michigan | 4–6–1 | 4–4–1 | T–4th | |||||
| 1986 | Western Michigan | 3–8 | 3–5 | 8th | |||||
| Western Michigan: | 25–27–3 | 19–22–3 | |||||||
| Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (Independent) (1989–1998) | |||||||||
| 1989 | Western Kentucky | 6–5 | |||||||
| 1990 | Western Kentucky | 2–8 | |||||||
| 1991 | Western Kentucky | 3–8 | |||||||
| 1992 | Western Kentucky | 4–6 | |||||||
| 1993 | Western Kentucky | 8–3 | |||||||
| 1994 | Western Kentucky | 5–6 | |||||||
| 1995 | Western Kentucky | 2–8 | |||||||
| 1996 | Western Kentucky | 7–4 | |||||||
| 1997 | Western Kentucky | 10–2 | L NCAA Division I-AA Quarterfinal | ||||||
| 1998 | Western Kentucky | 7–4 | |||||||
| Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (Ohio Valley Conference) (1999–2000) | |||||||||
| 1999 | Western Kentucky | 6–5 | 4–3 | T–3rd | |||||
| 2000 | Western Kentucky | 11–2 | 7–0 | 1st | L NCAA Division I-AA Quarterfinal | ||||
| Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (Gateway Football Conference) (2001–2002) | |||||||||
| 2001 | Western Kentucky | 8–4 | 5–2 | T–2nd | L NCAA Division I-AA First Round | ||||
| 2002 | Western Kentucky | 12–3 | 6–1 | T–1st | W NCAA Division I-AA Championship | ||||
| Western Kentucky: | 91–68 | 22–6 | |||||||
| Total: | 116–95–3 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ebattle/celeb/harbaugh.htm
- ↑ "Player Bio: Jack Harbaugh". Stanford University. Archived from the original on February 19, 2012.
- ↑ "Bowling Green Is Voted No. 1," Lincoln Evening Journal, November 27, 1959, p. 14
- ↑ http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/20/ravens-49ers-win-to-set-up-harbaugh-vs-harbaugh-super-bowl/ Ravens, 49ers win to set up Harbaugh vs. Harbaugh Super Bowl
- ↑ "Coaches Records". Xenia High School. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
- ↑ Ken Murray (January 7, 2011). "Jim Harbaugh joins Ravens' John Harbaugh to form first pair of NFL head coaching brothers". Baltimore Sun.
- ↑ Hanzus, Dan (2013-01-20). "Ravens roll by Patriots to advance to Super Bowl XLVII". National Football League. Retrieved 2013-01-20.
- ↑ Wolfley, Bob (January 21, 2013). "Why Jack Harbaugh and his wife, Jackie, live in Mequon". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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