Harvey John Harman (November 5, 1900 – December 17, 1969) was an
American football
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player and coach. He served as the head coach at
Haverford College
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(1922–1929),
Sewanee: The University of the South (1930), the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest- ...
(1931–1937), and
Rutgers University
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(1938–1941, 1946–1955), compiling a career
college football
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record of 140–107–7. Harman was posthumously inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame
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as a coach in 1981.
Harman played college football at the
University of Pittsburgh
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. From 1931 to 1937, he coached at Penn, where he compiled a 31–23–2 record. Between 1938 and 1955, he coached at Rutgers, where he compiled a 74–44–2 record. He served in the
Navy
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during
World War II
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.
Head coaching record
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1900 births
1969 deaths
American football tackles
Haverford Fords football coaches
Rutgers Scarlet Knights football coaches
Penn Quakers football coaches
Pittsburgh Panthers football players
Sewanee Tigers football coaches
College Football Hall of Fame inductees
United States Navy personnel of World War II
People from Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
Coaches of American football from Pennsylvania
Players of American football from Pennsylvania
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