Derrick Harmon

Derrick Todd Harmon
Career information
No. 24
Date of birth	(1963-04-26) April 26, 1963
Place of birth	New York, NY
Status	retired
Position(s)	RB
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight	202 lb (92 kg)
College	Cornell
High school	Bayside
NFL draft	1984 / Round: 9 / Pick: 248
Career history
As player
1984–1986	San Francisco 49ers
Career highlights and awards
Super Bowl Champion (XIX) NFC Champion (1984)
Career stats
Rushing yards]	361
Rush attempts	94
Rushing TDs	2
Receiving yards	203
Receptions	23
Games played	39
Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Derrick Todd Harmon (born April 26, 1963) is a former professional American football player who played running back for the San Francisco 49ers from 1984 to 1986.

Harmon played college football at Cornell University, where he still holds numerous records. He was a two-time Academic All-American, a member of the Associated Press Division I-AA All-America second team, and a two-time member of the All-Ivy first team. He received the Asa Bushnell Award as the Ivy League Player of the Year, and was named Cornell's first ever Sophomore of the Year in 1981 (now renamed Rookie of the Year). Harmon was the fourth person in Ivy League history to go over 1,000 yards in one season, running 1,056 yards in seven Ivy games in 1983. He was voted the team's Most Valuable Player and was named the Athlete of the Year of by The Cornell Daily Sun and The Ithaca Journal. Harmon graduated as an engineering physics major in 1984 and was a member of the Quill and Dagger society.^[1]

In 1984, Harmon was drafted to the National Football League in the ninth round by the San Francisco 49ers. It was not until 1997 that another Cornellian was drafted by the NFL. He played in the Super Bowl XIX win against the Miami Dolphins in 1985 and was the first alumnus of Cornell University to win a Super Bowl ring.

Harmon was inducted into the Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1989.^[2] He is the brother of NFL players Ronnie Harmon and Kevin Harmon. Derrick was an engineering student and later pursued a career in academics.

References

San Francisco 49ers 1984 NFL draft selections

Todd Shell John Frank Guy McIntyre Michael Carter Jeff Fuller Lee Miller Derrick Harmon Dave Moritz Kirk Pendleton Derrick Crawford (supp.) Joe Conwell (supp.) Mark Schellen (supp.)

San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl XIX Champions

4 Max Runager 6 Matt Cavanaugh 14 Ray Wersching 16 Joe Montana (Super Bowl MVP) 19 Tom Orosz 21 Eric Wright 22 Dwight Hicks 24 Derrick Harmon 26 Wendell Tyler 27 Carlton Williamson 28 Tom Holmoe 29 Mario Clark 30 Bill Ring 32 Carl Monroe 33 Roger Craig 42 Ronnie Lott 43 Dana McLemore 49 Jeff Fuller 50 Riki Ellison 51 Randy Cross 52 Blanchard Montgomery 53 Milt McColl 54 Ron Ferrari 55 Jim Fahnhorst 56 Fred Quillan 57 Dan Bunz 58 Keena Turner 61 Jesse Sapolu 62 Guy McIntyre 64 Jack Reynolds 65 Lawrence Pillers 66 Allan Kennedy 67 Billy Shields 67 John Macaulay 68 John Ayers 71 Keith Fahnhorst 72 Jeff Stover 74 Fred Dean 76 Dwaine Board 77 Bubba Paris 78 Manu Tuiasosopo 79 Jim Stuckey 81 Russ Francis 83 Renaldo Nehemiah 84 Al Dixon 85 Mike Wilson 86 John Frank 87 Dwight Clark 88 Freddie Solomon 89 Earl Cooper 90 Todd Shell 94 Louie Kelcher 95 Michael Carter 97 Gary Johnson 98 Greg Boyd 99 Mike Walter

Head Coach Bill Walsh

Coaches Paul Hackett Tommy Hart Norb Hecker Sherman Lewis Bobb McKittrick Bill McPherson George Seifert Ray Rhodes Fred von Appen

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