Willie Miles Harper is a former American Football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 linebacker

Linebacker

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 who played for the San Francisco 49ers

San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...

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Harper played high school football for Toledo Scott

Scott High School (Toledo, Ohio)

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 and college football at University of Nebraska where he was an All-American in 1972

1972 College Football All-America Team

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 and was drafted in the second round of the 1973 NFL Draft

1973 NFL Draft

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 by the 49ers, who he stayed with for eleven years, from 1973 to 1983. He moved to the USFL in 1984 to play for the New Jersey Generals

New Jersey Generals

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. He finished his career with the Houston Gamblers

Houston Gamblers

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 in 1985.