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	James Harris (football player) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Harris (born 1947) and played college football for the Grambling State University Tigers from 1965 to 1968.
		Under the guidance of head coach Eddie Robinson (football's winningest coach) Grambling won or shared all four SWAC titles while Harris was a player and he was named MVP of the 1967 Orange Blossum Classic.
		He was the first fl player to start a football season as quarterback for a professional American football team in the modern era, doing so in 1969 for the American Football League's Buffalo Bills against the Super Bowl Champion New York Jets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Harris_(football_player) (431 words)

	James Harris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Harris (football player) (born 1947), first modern fl professional American football quarterback to start a season
		James Harris (politician), 2000 and 2004 U.S. presidential candidate for the Socialist Workers Party
		James B. Harris (born 1928), film-producing partner of Stanley Kubrick
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Harris (164 words)

	James Harris Bio
		James Harris was named vice president of player personnel for the Jaguars on January 23, 2003.
		Harris was a key component in the Ravens’ success in acquiring key free agents, including Pro Bowlers such as QB Jeff Blake (1995 Pro Bowl) and TE Shannon Sharpe (eight Pro Bowls).
		Harris earned a bachelor's degree in education and was subsequently nominated as a distinguished alumnus for his contributions to American society during his NFL career.
	www.jaguars.com /Team/Bio/2409.asp (564 words)

	College Football Hall of Fame
		Harris, who had the talent of a first or second round draft choice, fell to the Buffalo Bills in the eight round.
		By 1972, Harris was released and working for the Department of Commerce in Washington D.C. Just when Harris thought his football career was over, he received a call from the Los Angeles Rams that resurrected his career.
		Harris was named vice president of player personnel for the Jacksonville Jaguars on January 23, 2003.
	www.collegefootball.org /news.php?id=559 (1049 words)

	TSU football player arrested at Vandy event - Friday, 04/25/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A Vanderbilt football player was injured and a Tennessee State player arrested following an incident that took place at Vanderbilt's annual Rites of Spring event last weekend.
		Aaron Harris, 20, a 6-foot, 225-pound redshirt freshman linebacker from TSU, was charged early Sunday morning by Vanderbilt campus police with two counts of assault, public intoxication, underage consumption of alcohol, evading arrest and resisting arrest after striking a pair of concert-goers on the Alumni Lawn.
		The report also said Harris, who admitted to drinking five beers and two shots of liquor, ran two blocks after evading Vanderbilt police, who were trying to detain him on the assault charges.
	tennessean.com /sports/vandy/archives/03/04/31986981.shtml?... (631 words)

	KTLA The WB \| Where Los Angeles Lives \| Winners on the Field, They Found Life Harder to Tackle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Players responded differently — sometimes dramatically so — to the physical and mental tolls of competing at the highest level, and their often sudden withdrawal from the game.
		He was an advisor for football scenes in "The Longest Yard" and for the upcoming film "Invincible," the story of a man who succeeds as a pro football player in his 30s, despite not having played in college.
		After starring as a college football player, he graduated from USC and played five years in the NFL, where he was the leading rusher in the 1992 Super Bowl.
	ktla.trb.com /news/la-me-rbintro1jan01,0,6569426.story?coll=ktla-news-1 (7444 words)

	Javon Walker, Terrell Owens, National Football League - CBS SportsLine.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Players won't leave a year's salary and, as in Walker's case, a year's credit toward free agency on the table to sit at home and watch the season.
		James is too smart to leave $8.1 million sitting on the table.
		The Jaguars were a player for his services, but the Titans were able to make a deal for Henry with the Bills, preventing the Jaguars from giving up a third-round pick and giving Henry a long-term deal.
	www.sportsline.com /nfl/story/8664918 (2231 words)

	Football Digest: The cardiac cats: the Jaguars, guided by Byron Leftwich, are winning converts—and games—with ...
		He hired James Harris, former NFL quarterback--a rare successful fl quarterback in the 1970s--as personnel director.
		Harris, who was a scout and worked in personnel for the New York Jets and Baltimore Ravens, and Del Rio have succeeded in retooling a roster that had grown old and stale under Coughlin.
		So were Harris, who recommended selecting Leftwich with the seventh pick in the 2003 draft, and Del Rio, who wasn't afraid to leave the kid in the lineup in '03 even after Brunell healed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCL/is_6_34/ai_n8588079 (1588 words)

	FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Football analysis and NFL stats for the Moneyball era - Authors of Pro Football Prospectus 2005
		Football Outsiders is dedicated to bringing you the best NFL analysis on the Web free of charge, but we still need money to pay the rent and feed our kids.
		The way MLB works is that the player makes the minimum for his first four years in the majors, has arbitration rights for years five and six, and becomes a free agent with no restrictions after six years.
		When players ‘underperform’ their contract we don’t say the contract was unfair to the team, we say they screwed up.
	www.footballoutsiders.com /2006/03/10/extra-points/3731 (5136 words)

	James Harris statistics - pro-football-reference.com
		James Harris is not in the all-time top 50 in any major category.
		In particular, note that postseason data is currently available only for the years 1975-2003, so this player's entire postseason career might not be shown here.
		For the best fantasy football information on the web, visit footballguys.com.
	www.pro-football-reference.com /players/HarrJa01.htm (254 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/National Football League
		That is, the team is the first to select a player from a pool of all eligible college players in the country.
		Escalating player salaries throughout the 1980s led to the creation of a salary cap, a maximum amount of money each team can pay its players in aggregate.
		The next year 1969, another American Football League team, the Buffalo Bills were the first professional football team of the modern era to begin the season with a fl, James Harris as their starting quarterback.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/NFL (3580 words)

	African American Registry: Black contributions to American professional football are many. . .
		When Follis retired from professional football in 1906, he was replaced that same year by Charles "Doc" Baker, the second African-American pro-football player.
		When the NFL was reintegrated in 1946, fl players made an immediate impact, leading their teams in rushing, passing, and receiving.
		Among Blacks to play quarterback in the NFL were Willie Thrower, the first Black quarterback in the league (1953), James Harris, Marlin Brisco, and Doug Williams, the only African-American quarterback to lead his team to a Super Bowl win.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/441/Black_contributions_to_American_professional_football_are_many (678 words)

	Southern U. Football Player Killed
		James Allen, sophomore offensive lineman was killed outside the Varsity Bar near LSU.
		Southern University football player James Allen was shot to death after an altercation in front of a nightclub near the north gates of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
		On Friday, members of the football team met with their head coach and other personnel of the athletic department.
	www.blackcollegewire.org /news/030127_southern-homicide (589 words)

	The Honolulu Advertiser \| Sports
		It was in September of 1999 that Fenderson, a Mililani High graduate in his first season at UH, was living in his pickup truck.
		As a nonscholarship player, most of his money went to tuition and books.
		James will be a real diamond in the rough for the (pro) scouts over there."
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2001/Jan/12/112sports14.html (409 words)

	Category:San Diego Chargers players - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This category is all NFL players who have played for the San Diego Chargers.
		There are separate categories for each era of the franchise:
		Players should be included in each category that applies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:San_Diego_Chargers_players (88 words)

	AllSports' NFL News - Jaguars name James Harris VP of player personnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Jacksonville, Harris is reunited with new coach Jack Del Rio, who spent four seasons as linebackers coach of the Ravens, including the 2000 season when Baltimore won the Super Bowl.
		Harris rose to prominence in Baltimore on the strength of acquisitions such as Michael McCrary, Shannon Sharpe, Tony Siragusa, Sam Adams, Trent Dilfer and Rod Woodson.
		Before landing in Baltimore, Harris was assistant general manager of the New York Jets from 1993 to 1996 and was a scout at Tampa Bay for six seasons.
	www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/showstory.cgi?story_id=38404 (454 words)

	Buffalo Bills
		They were the first American Football League team to win 13 games in a season (1964); were one of only three teams to appear in an AFL championship game for three successive years; and the only AFL team to apear in the playoffs four straight years, 1963 through 1966.
		A four-year letterman (football, baseball, wrestling, track and field); in 1959 and '60, he led the WIU football team to the only consecutive undefeated seasons in school history, and is in the
		He was the first American Football League player to rush for 1,000 yards in a season, 1,096 in a 14-game schedule in 1962, earning him league MVP honors.
	www.conigliofamily.com /Bills.htm (3064 words)

	jeffart1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Winslow did not play football until his senior year of high school in East St. Louis, Ill.: in fact, the first time he tried out for the team, he put his pants on backwards, although leg at a time.
		He won a football scholarship to the University of Missouri, and once on campus he showed so many fluid moves on the football field that the school’s basketball coach, Norm Stewart, tried to persuade to play two sports.
		in his five years of football, he has missed only a game and half because of injury: he was asked to model swimwear at a recent fashion show because he was the only charger on hand who did not have unsightly scars crisscrossing his knees.
	jpj.net /~mikeg/Articles/jeffart1.htm (1441 words)

	Pulse of the draft - Second Round picks
		Buchsbaum says: Jansen is a very good football player who should step right in and start for the Redskins at right tackle.
		DRE Lance Johnstone is an undersized player who can rush the passer but has had injury problems in the past, and DLE James Harris did next to nothing last season.
		But he is not a consistent player, and concerns about his character left him on the board longer than expected.
	archive.profootballweekly.com /content/archives/draft_1998/draftday_picks2.asp (3357 words)

	African American Registry: Joe Gilliam Jr. Had athletic leadership skills
		Gilliam kept close to the Tiger football team by serving as a ball boy.
		Along with Ed "Too Tall" Jones and Richard Dent, he was among the most famous football players to enter the NFL after playing at Tennessee State the school that also produced Olympic star Wilma Rudolph.
		Most recently in 1999, Dr. James Hefner, TSU President, allowed him to host a summer Youth Football Camp at Tennessee State with his father Joe Gilliam, Sr.
	aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1373/... (368 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Football / Patriots / Law's plan: heal, then deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Smith applauded the choice of coach Jack Del Rio and general manager James Harris, who stuck out their necks a tad, taking Jones with the 21st pick ahead of established receiver Mark Clayton.
		Jack and James, two people who have played the game, decided that this is a kid they wanted in their offensive huddle.
		Edgerrin James and Shaun Alexander also were not traded, as teams elected to fill needs in the draft.
	www.boston.com /sports/football/patriots/articles/2005/05/01/laws_plan_heal_then_deal?mode=PF (1662 words)

	Bagby Negatives (GBBY) 73
		James (Jim) Quinn - Football Player -- c1925
		James (Jim) Stack - Football Player -- c1924
		Football Backfield: Elmer Wynne, Christy Flanagan -- 1926
	archives.nd.edu /gbby073.htm (268 words)

	Seahawks.com
		Perhaps the best way to describe the 22-year legacy of Chuck Knox as a football coach in the NFL is to describe him as a strict parent to his players.
		He laid down the rules as he expected them to be followed, didn’t tolerate any nonsense, and always put the players in their place when need be.
		He created the atmosphere of that style of football and the way we were going to do it with all of his little colloquialisms.
	www.seahawks.com /arprintdisplay.aspx?ID=5905 (1003 words)

	NFL Draft - Pro Football Weekly
		Shortly thereafter, the players were playing ping-pong together, continued to train together without any further disturbances and remained friendly.
		On the field, most coaches encourage players to be aggressive, especially offensive linemen, and one NFC scout said he is even encouraged by Hunter’s behavior, comparing him to Bears C Olin Kreutz, who was involved in a more disturbing incident in college when he pummeled one of his teammates at the University of Washington.
		One scout told PFW that there’s been far more disappointing workouts on big-time players than good workouts, but Marshall’s Byron Leftwich showed he was an aberration to that trend with a solid showing at his workout Monday in Bradenton, Fla., near the IMG’s Performance Institute where he is training.
	profootballweekly.com /PFW/NFLDraft/Draft+Insider/2003/wwhi040803.htm (1053 words)

	Georgia Magazine \| Class Notes
		James L. Smith (BSFR '76, MS '79) of Jacksonville, Fla., was promoted to manager of forest management systems development for International Paper Co. Juanita Pierson Stedman (BSEd '76) of Marietta was appointed juvenile court judge for Cobb County.
		Harris is the owner and president of Century 21 Alan Harris Realty.
		James Harris (BSF '62, MS '64) of Athens, retired as professor emeritus of extension education at UGA, died Oct. 2, 2000.
	www.uga.edu /gm/301/Notes3.html (12394 words)

	The Complete History of African American Quarterbacks In The NFL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		African American) and was finally inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005 almost 80 years after his playing days were over.He died in 1986 at the age of 92 and was a true pioneer of the game and left a lasting legacy for future African American Quarterbacks and players.
		Even with African American players returning, the league was still very slow to embrace African Americans at the so called “Thinking Positions” (Quarterback, Center, and Middle Linebacker), because of “backward” stereotypes.
		He was selected as an alternate to the Pro Bowl and finished the season with 3,020 passing yards, completed 236 of 440 pass attempts, 21 touchdowns and 17 interceptions for a 75.2 pass rating.
	www.blackathletesportsnetwork.net /artman/publish/article_01599.shtml (2087 words)

	iwasthinking
		Burl Toler was named by NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle to be the first African-American football field judge in the NFL.
		James Harris became the first African-American quarterback to be a starter in the NFL, throwing for the Los Angeles Rams.
		Fritz Pollard, an All-America halfback from Brown University was a pro football pioneer in more ways than one.
	iwt.blogspot.com (2250 words)

	NFL.com - NFL News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		That radio call-in sticks in James' mind as much as Moon taking Washington to the Pac-8 title, or his Rose Bowl upset of Michigan, or any of Moon's later exploits in professional football.
		It might seem ridiculous now that anyone would boo the man who is second in the NFL history in pass attempts (655) and completions (404) in a season, and in passing yards in a game (527), and third in career pass attempts (6,823), completions (3,988), and passing yards (49,325).
		Although Eldridge Dickey was the first fl quarterback to be drafted in the first round in 1968 (he was switched to wide receiver), it was not until 2001 that Michael Vick became the first fl quarterback to be selected with the No. 1 pick.
	www.nfl.com /news/story/6818787 (1134 words)

	CyberDad's St. Louis Rams Quotes Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		I ended up playing pool in the garage with Jane Russell, which was a great thrill for me -- a little PR man at that time.
		But we couldn't eat in the hotel restaurant," by Harry Thompson, Rams offensive guard from 1950-54, regarding why the Rams allowed fl players to order room service.
		But to make me the starter, in that day and age, he was being color-foolish," by James Harris, Rams starting quarterback from 1974-76, about the controversy surrounding his becoming the first fl quarterback to be a regular starter in the NFL.
	www.concentric.net /~Cyberdad/stlrams/quotes.html (584 words)

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