2007 Spring Practice Schedule 2007 STANFORD FOOTBALL Wednesday April 4 4:00-6:30 pm Spring Practice Begins April 4 Thursday April 5 4:00-6:30 pm Saturday April 7 11:00-1:45 pm Harbaugh Era Begins With 15 Spring Practices Monday April 9 4:00-6:30 pm First-year head coach Jim Harbaugh will get his first look at the 2007 Cardinal Wednesday April 11 4:00-6:30 pm on the practice field as Stanford begins Spring Football practice onWednesday, Friday April 13 4:00-6:30 pm April 4 … Harbaugh, named Stanford's head coach on December 19, 2006, Sunday April 15 3:30-6:30 pm will lead the Cardinal through 15 spring practices, culminating in the annual Tuesday April 17 4:00-6:30 pm Cardinal-White Game on Saturday, April 28 at 4:00 pm in Stanford Stadium Thursday April 19 4:00-6:30 pm Saturday April 21 11:00-1:45 pm* … Eighty-one Cardinal players will participate in spring practice, including 54 Sunday April 22 3:30-5:30 pm returning letter-winners (25 on offense, 25 on defense and four specialists) and Tuesday April 24 4:00-6:30 pm 15 returning starters (seven on offense, eight on defense plus two kickers). Thursday April 26 4:00-6:15 pm Friday April 27 4:00-6:00 pm Head Coach Jim Harbaugh Saturday April 28 4:00 pm*+ A 15-year NFL veteran and owner of an impressive 29-6 record at the Univer- * at Stanford Stadium sity of San Diego, Jim Harbaugh was named Stanford's head coach shortly + Spring Game after the conclusion of the 2006 season … Harbaugh spent the last three seasons (2004-06) as the head coach at USD, leading the Toreros to Division I-AA Mid- 2007 Schedule Major national titles each of the past two campaigns … He posted an impressive 9/1 UCLA 7:00 pm three-year overall record of 29-6 (.829) at San Diego, including 11-1 campaigns 9/15 San Jose State 7:00 pm each of the past two years that also included a school record 18-game win streak 9/22 Oregon 7:00 pm and two Pioneer Football League championships … Harbaugh starred at Palo 9/29 Arizona State 7:00 pm Alto High School as one of the top prep quarterbacks in the nation, then enjoyed 10/6 at USC TBA 10/13 TCU 2:00 pm a storied career at the University of Michigan (1983-86), leading the Wolver- 10/20 at Arizona TBA ines to three bowl games while being named Big Ten Player of the Year … As a 10/27 at Oregon State TBA professional, Harbaugh finished his career among the top-50 all-time in several 11/3 Washington 12:30 pm passing categories and was named AFC Offensive Player of the Year in 1995 … 11/10 at Washington State TBA He played for five teams over 15 seasons (1987-2001) as a quarterback in the 11/24 Notre Dame TBA 12/1 California 12:30 pm National Football League after entering the NFL as a first round draft pick of the Schedule subject to change Chicago Bears in 1987 … After seven seasons in Chicago (1987-93), Harbaugh played for the Indianapolis Colts for four years (1994-97), one year with the Baltimore Ravens (1998), two seasons with the San Diego Chargers (1999- *** Spring Game *** 2000) and his final season with the Carolina Panthers (2001) … In his brief coaching career, Harbaugh has been a part of one Super Bowl team (Oakland Saturday, April 28 Raiders, 2002) and guided his USD teams to two national championships. 4:00 pm Stanford Stadium Returning Starters Stanford returns 15 starters off last year's team, seven on offense and eight on defense, plus both kickers … On offense, the Cardinal returns linemen Allen Smith and Alex Fletcher, running backs Anthony Kimble and Emeka Nnoli, tight end Jim Dray and receivers Evan Moore and Austin Yancy on one side, and Richard Sherman and Kelton Lynn on the other side … Defensive starters back from last year's team include linemen Chris Horn, Ekom Udofiaand Pan- Cardinal Quick Facts nel Egboh, linebackers Udeme Udofia, Clinton Snyderand Pat Maynor and cornerbacks Tim Sims and Wopamo Osaisai … In addition, both PK Aaron Stanford Football Coaching Staff Zagory and punter Jay Ottovegio return in 2007. Jim Harbaugh, Head Coach / QB Scott Shafer, Asst. HC / Def. Coord. Who Else Is Back David Shaw, Offensive Coord. / WR When the 2006 season concluded, there was no certainty that three key players Lance Anderson, Def. Tackles/Recruiting for Stanford would return for the 2007 season … Good news for the Cardinal Andy Buh, Linebackers is that all three are back … Receivers Evan Moore and Mark Bradford, who Chris Dalman, Offensive Line began the '06 campaign in the starting lineup, and center Tim Mattran, will all Tim Drevno, Tight Ends D.J. Durkin, Def. Ends/Special Teams be on the practice field on April 4 … Mattran received a sixth year of eligibil- Wille Taggart, Running Backs ity from the NCAA after missing all of the 2006 season due to injury; Bradford Clayton White, Defensive Backs received another year of eligibility after missing most of the '06 campaign due to injury and Moore, who had another year of eligibility, decided to return to the Starters Returning Farm for the 2007 season … "With Moore and Bradford and Richard Sherman, (15; 7 offense, 8 defense plus 2 kickers) I think we have the potential to be the best receiving corps in the Pac-10," says Harbaugh. Offense (7) Evan Moore / Austin Yancy, WR Position Changes Allen Smith, LT Several players will begin the spring practice campaign at different positions Alex Fletcher, C … Sophomore Austin Yancy, who started six games at wide receiver last year Jim Dray, TE Anthony Kimble, RB and caught 16 passes, will work out at both receiver and free safety during the Emeka Nnoli, FB spring … Sophomore Eric Lorig, who lettered last season at tight end, has been Richard Sherman / Kelton Lynn, WR moved to defensive end … Two-year letter-winner Gustav Rydstedt, who has played nose tackle and defensive end the past two seasons, has been moved to Defense (8) offensive guard … Chris Hobbs, a cornerback the past two seasons, will play Udeme Udofia, OLB both corner and wide receiver in the spring … Ben Ladner has been moved Chris Horn, DE from fullback to tight end, Sam Weinberger from linebacker to fullback and Ekom Udofia, NT James McGillicuddy, a defensive end last year, will work out at both offensive Pannel Egboh, DE and defensive line in the spring. Clinton Snyder, OLB Pat Maynor, ILB Coaching Staff Tim Sims, CB Wopamo Osaisai, CB Among the nine assistant coaches on Harbaugh's staff are a mix of former NFL players and coaches, former Stanford players, three coaches who were on Kickers (2) Harbaugh's staff at USD and a defensive coordinator who guided one of the top Jay Ottovegio, P defensive units in college football in 2006 … Harbaugh's staff is young - av- Aaron Zagory, PK erage age 34.2 years old - and come to Stanford from all parts of the country … Two members of the Cardinal staff are former Stanford players, offensive Returning Statistical Leaders line coach Chris Dalman (1988-92) and offensive coordinator David Shaw (1991-94) … Dalman played seven years in the NFL while Shaw's resume Rushing (no-yds-td) includes nine seasons coaching in the NFL … Defensive backs coach Clayton Anthony Kimble 114-470-2 White played in the NFL; Lance Anderson, Tim Drevno and Shaw were on Toby Gerhart 106-375-0 Harbaugh's staff at USD last season while Scott Shafer was running a defense Passing (pa-pc-int-pct-yds-td) at Western Michigan that ranked 11th in the country. T.C. Ostrander 158-72-5-.456-918-3 Spring Notes Receiving (no-yds-td) Running back Toby Gerhart, Stanford's second leading rusher in 2006 as a true Richard Sherman 34-581-3 freshman, will not participate in spring practice after suffering a fractured bone Kelton Lynn 19-254-2 in his right forearm while playing for the Cardinal baseball team … Gerhart, Jim Dray 19-178-1 one of Stanford's top baseball players, suffered the injury Feb. 17 in a game at Texas … He is expected to return to the baseball team this season … Wopamo Tackles (ut-at-tt-int) Osaisai and Richard Sherman are competing on the Cardinal track team this Clinton Snyder 54-29-83-1 spring … Osaisai has competed in the 100m while Sherman has competed in Tim Sims 39-15-54-0 both indoors (long jump, triple jump) and outdoors (100m, 110 HH, triple jump) 2007 Stanford Football News Release - Page Two.