Major Impact: The Major Harris Story by R. G. Yoho

by R.G. Yoho

Before Michael Vick, Donovan McNabb, and Patrick White, there was Major Harris! In 1988, in a nationally-televised game on CBS, he ran 26-yards for a touchdown on a busted play. On that day, the entire college world came to know the phenomenal athlete with the unusual name. From the gritty streets of Pittsburgh’s Hill District to the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City, Major has climbed the pinnacle of college football’s elite. Recently elected to the College Football Hall of Fame, this two-time Heisman Trophy finalist was the first Division I quarterback to ever run the ball for more than 2,000 yards and pass for more than 5,000 yards in his career. And although he failed to play a single snap in the National Football League, Major’s pioneering style of play would change the game forever. This is the story of an athlete who left a Major Impact on the game!

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First published April 20, 2011

About the author

R.G. Yoho is a West Virginia native with a passion for history and tales of the American West. A proud member of the Western Writers of America and a 2022 Spur Award finalist, he's author of the five-book Kellen Malone Western series as well as books of historical fiction and nonfiction.

Yoho is also America's foremost authority on the life of Baldwin-Felts Agent and notorious coal mine spy, Charles E. Lively, who he profiled in the biography, "Charles E. Lively. The Deadliest Man in the West Virginia-Colorado Coal Mine Wars."

Yoho's varied career includes speaker, radio talk show host and political columnist, as well as a retired laboratory technician and process operator in the chemicals industry. Yoho is also the past president of the West Virginia Writers, Inc.

He lives in Southeast Ohio, near the Ohio-West Virginia border, with his wife of 43 years. They have three children, a nephew who is like a son and twelve grandchildren.

Yoho grew up on a cattle farm. Today, along with his son and grandsons, the author raises registered Texas Longhorns.

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