Harris Barton
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| Position: | Offensive tackle | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | April 19, 1964 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Sandy Springs, Georgia | ||||||||
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| High school: | Dunwoody (GA) | ||||||||
| College: | North Carolina | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1987 / Round: 1 / Pick: 22 | ||||||||
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| Games played: | 138 |
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| Games started: | 134 |
| Fumble recoveries: | 2 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
Harris Scott Barton (born April 19, 1964) is a fund manager and a former American football offensive lineman who played for the San Francisco 49ers.
Harris Scott Barton was born in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
Both of Barton's parents were born into Jewish families from New York City; his mother from an orthodox family in Queens, New York and his father Paul from Brooklyn, New York. Paul Barton was a traveling salesman who sold women's uniforms throughout the Southeastern United States. Both of his parents developed and eventually died of brain cancer, leading Barton later in life to found [1] Champion Charities, which raises money to fund brain tumor research at University of California, San Francisco.
Barton began playing football at age five. He attended [2] Hebrew Academy of Atlanta, now known as the Greenfield Hebrew Academy, through the fifth grade and graduated from Atlanta's Dunwoody High School. Barton was named DeKalb County MVP his senior year at Dunwoody.
Barton was recruited by over 100 colleges including University of Southern California, Oklahoma, and Notre Dame, but chose the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with head coach Dick Crum.
Originally thought to be a possible defensive lineman, Barton was switched to center early in his first summer of practice at UNC.
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