Ken Margerum

Ken Margerum

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Position:	Wide receiver
Personal information
Born:	(1958-10-05)October 5, 1958 Atlantic City, New Jersey,U.S.
Height:	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight:	175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
High school:	Fountain Valley (CA)
College:	Stanford
NFL draft:	1981/ Round: 3 / Pick: 67
Career history
As a player:
Chicago Bears(1981–1986) San Francisco 49ers(1986-1987) Green Bay Packers(1988)*
* Offseason and/or practice squad member only
As a coach:
Hawaii Prep(OC) (1993–1995) Hawaii(WR) (1996) Menlo(1997–1999) California(WR) (2000–2001) Laney(TE) (2002) Scottish Claymores(OC) (2003) Stanford(WR) (2004) San Jose state(OC/QB) (2005) San Jose State (co-OC/RB) (2006) San Jose State (WR) (2007–2009)
Career highlights and awards
Super Bowl champion(XX) PFWA All-Rookie Team(1981) Unanimous All-American(1980) ConsensusAll-American(1979) Pop Warner Trophy(1980) 3× First-teamAll-Pac-10(1978,1979,1980)
Career NFL statistics
Receptions: 94 Receiving yards: 1,336 Receivingtouchdowns: 8
Player stats atPFR
College Football Hall of Fame

Kenneth Margerum(born October 5, 1958) is an American former professionalfootballplayer who was awide receiverin theNational Football League(NFL) for seven seasons during the 1980s. Margerum playedcollege footballforStanford University,and earned consensusAll-Americanhonors twice. He played professionally for theChicago BearsandSan Francisco 49ersof the NFL.

He has also coached in several capacities at the college level, as head football coach atMenlo College,wide receivers coach at Stanford and the University of Hawaii, and through the 2009 season as an assistant coach for San Jose State University. Margerum also served asoffensive coordinatorfor theScottish ClaymoresinNFL Europe.

College career

Margerum attendedFountain Valley High Schooland Stanford University, where he played for theStanford Cardinal footballteam from 1977 to 1980. A consensus first-team All-Americanwide receiverin 1979 and 1980, Margerum was known for his acrobatic catches and sure hands. Margerum was a favorite target of Stanford quarterbackJohn Elway.He held thePac-10record for career touchdowns with 32 until 2006 whenDwayne Jarrettbroke it and held theStanfordrecord for receiving yards (2,430) until that mark was broken in 1999 byTroy Walters.

College statistics

Legend
	Led the Pac-10
	Pac-10 record
	Led the NCAA
	NCAA Record
Bold	Career high

College receiving statistics*

Season	School	Games	Rec	Yds	Avg	TD	Att	Yds	Avg	TD
Team		Receiving					Rushing
1977	Stanford	11	3	64	21.3	0	0	0	0.0	0
1978	Stanford	11	53	942	17.8	9	3	21	7.0	0
1979	Stanford	11	41	733	17.9	10	1	11	11.0	0
1980	Stanford	11	44	691	15.7	11	3	33	11.0	0
Career	Stanford	44	141	2,430	17.2	30	7	65	9.3	0

* Includes bowl games.

On April 30, 2009, The National Football Foundation &College Football Hall of Fameannounced that Margerum was one of sixteen players and two coaches selected to the 2009 Class of the College Hall of Fame.

Professional career

Margerum was a third round draft choice of theChicago Bearsin the1981 NFL draftand earned first-team All-Rookiehonors that year.He was a member of the Bears victoriousSuper Bowl XXteam.Margerum served primarily as a third-down receiver and special teams player for the Bears that year, after successfully recuperating from atorn ACLsuffered the prior season.Sports Illustratedpublished a small article (with photo) on Margerum, detailing his use of unorthodox activities -wind surfingandmountain biking- as he rehabbed his knee. During his time with the Bears, critics of Margerum, including thenOffensive coordinatorGreg Landry,suggested he often "left his feet" after catching the ball and had limited run-after-the catch ability after returning from his knee injury. Margerum was also closely associated with his friend and fellow Bears teammateJim McMahon.After a regular season touchdown from McMahon to Margerum, the two players celebrated by oddly wiggling and shaking their arms at one another while butting heads. Margerum was also known to wear "floppy" black high top cleats as a means to deceive defensive backs into thinking he was slow. After five years with the Bears, Margerum finished up the1986and1987seasons with theSan Francisco 49ers.He later went to camp with theGreen Bay Packers,but did not play in any regular season games for the club.

Coaching career

Margerum began his coaching career as offensive coordinator atHawaii Preparatory Academyin 1993. After three seasons there, he became wide receivers coach at theUniversity of Hawaiiin 1996 underFred von Appen.He was then head coach atMenlo College,an NCAA Division III independent school, from 1997 to 1999.

After two seasons at California onTom Holmoe's staff as wide receivers coach, Margerum moved to the junior college level in 2002 as tight ends coach atLaney College.He then became offensive coordinator for theNFL Europe'sScottish Claymoresin 2003. The following year, Margerum returned to the collegiate ranks as wide receivers coach atStanfordunderBuddy Teevens.

In 2005, Margerum joinedDick Tomey's staff atSan Jose Stateas offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He became co-offensive coordinator and running backs coach in 2006 and helped the Spartans win the2006 New Mexico Bowl.He was then wide receivers coach from 2007 to 2009.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Menlo Oaks(NCAA Division III independent)(1997–1999)
1997	Menlo	5–5
1998	Menlo	2–8
1999	Menlo	5–4
Menlo:		12–17
Total:		12–17

External links

• Ken Margerumat theCollege Football Hall of Fame
• Career statistics and player information fromNFL.com·Pro Football Reference