Margerum now in College Football Hall of Fame

Fountain Valley High alumnus Ken Margerum is one of 16 players and two coaches from the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision who have been selected as 2009 inductees to the College Football Hall of Fame.

Margerum, 50, now serves as an assistant football coach at San Jose State University. He was formerly head football coach at Menlo College and receivers coach at Stanford and the University of Hawaii.

Margerum, who graduated from Fountain Valley High in 1977, went on to a standout career as receiver for Stanford. A three-time All-Pac 10 Conference first-team selection, his 30 receiving touchdowns is still first in the Stanford record books.

He enjoyed a seven-year NFL career with the Bears (1981-86) and San Francisco 49ers (‘87-88), earning a ring when the Bears won Super Bowl XX.

The 2009 College Football Hall of Fame Football Bowl Subdivision Class will be inducted at the National Football Foundation’s annual awards dinner on Dec. 8 in New York City. They will be officially enshrined at the Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., in the summer of 2010.

— Matt Szabo