Kenneth Margerum was born on October 5,1958 and is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League for seven seasons during the 1980s.
19 Facts About Ken Margerum
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Ken Margerum played professionally for the Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers of the NFL.
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Ken Margerum has coached in several capacities at the college level, as head football coach at Menlo College, wide receivers coach at Stanford and the University of Hawaii, and through the 2009 season as an assistant coach for San Jose State University.
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Ken Margerum served as offensive coordinator for the Scottish Claymores in NFL Europe.
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Ken Margerum attended Fountain Valley High School and Stanford University, where he played for the Stanford Cardinal football team from 1977 to 1980.
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Ken Margerum was a favorite target of Stanford quarterback John Elway.
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Ken Margerum held the Pac-10 record for career touchdowns with 32 until 2006 when Dwayne Jarrett broke it and held the Stanford record for receiving yards until that mark was broken in 1999 by Troy Walters.
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Ken Margerum was a third round draft choice of the Chicago Bears in the 1981 NFL draft and earned first-team All-Rookie honors that year.
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Ken Margerum was a member of the Bears victorious Super Bowl XX team.
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Ken Margerum served primarily as a third-down receiver and special teams player for the Bears that year, after successfully recuperating from a torn ACL suffered the prior season.
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Sports Illustrated published a small article on Ken Margerum, detailing his use of unorthodox activities - wind surfing and mountain biking - as he rehabbed his knee.
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Ken Margerum was closely associated with his friend and fellow Bears teammate Jim McMahon.
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Ken Margerum was known to wear "floppy" black high top cleats as a means to deceive defensive backs into thinking he was slow.
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Ken Margerum later went to camp with the Green Bay Packers, but did not play in any regular season games for the club.
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Ken Margerum began his coaching career as offensive coordinator at Hawaii Preparatory Academy in 1993.
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Ken Margerum was then head coach at Menlo College, an NCAA Division III independent school, from 1997 to 1999.
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Ken Margerum then became offensive coordinator for the NFL Europe's Scottish Claymores in 2003.
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Ken Margerum became co-offensive coordinator and running backs coach in 2006 and helped the Spartans win the 2006 New Mexico Bowl.
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Ken Margerum was then wide receivers coach from 2007 to 2009.