room activities. He would involve
himself every day in things we had
going on, whether it was basketball,
weight lifting, running a 300-yard
shuttle drill.
"He claims he ran a sub-40-second
one, which is unheard of, and then
vomited. He would always be No. 1.
He promised us that. It carried all the
way down the line."
It also carried beyond mano a mano
contests in the locker room. It spread
like a virus among players and a pro-
gram that previously produced no
real outside expectations of winning.
Marinelli insisted Stanford's play-
San Francisco went 6-10 the year before Harbaugh arrived, but in his first three seasons at
the helm the 49ers went 13-3, 11-4-1 and 12-4 while advancing to the NFC Championship
Game all three years and the Super Bowl in 2013.
PHOTO COURTESY SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS
