Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh and Washington Commanders tight end Zach Ertz will be inducted into the California High School Football Hall of Fame, the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation and National Football Foundation announced on Thursday.
Harbaugh and Ertz are two of the 25 inductees in the 2024 class. It is the second California High School Football Hall of Fame class to be announced since its inaugural class of 113 inductees was announced in 2022.
This year’s class will be honored at the Nov. 30 game between Fresno State and UCLA at the Rose Bowl.
Before a successful playing and coaching career in college and in the NFL, Harbaugh played quarterback at Palo Alto High School and graduated from there in 1983. He went on to play at the University of Michigan and enjoyed a 14-year stint in the NFL.
He found most of his success on the sidelines where he recently won a national championship with Michigan. Before Michigan, he made head coaching stops with the San Francisco 49ers, Stanford and the University of San Diego.
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Ertz was a standout at Monte Vista High School in Danville. As a senior in 2008, Ertz had 56 catches for 756 receiving yards and 14 touchdowns en route to an all-East Bay Athletic League first-team selection.
San Ramon Valley High’s #5 Jordan Newell, left, tries to catch Monte Vista High’s #5 Zach Ertz, right, as Ertz, runs the ball for a first down in the second quarter of their football game in Danville, Calif., on Friday, November 14, 2008. (Doug Duran/Staff)
He later went to play at Stanford where was a unanimous All-American in 2012. Ertz was a second-round draft selection by the Philadelphia Eagles in 2013 and won a Super Bowl with the team in 2018.
This year’s class is made up of 20 players and five coaches, which also includes Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff (Marin Catholic), former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Craig Morton (Campbell High School) and former Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Ron Pritchard (Antioch).