Major Harris accomplished many things in a WVU uniform. His broken play dubbed "The Run" against Penn State in 1988 is widely considered one of the most incredible plays in WVU football history. He was named an All-American in 1989, won Eastern College Athletic Conference player of the year in 1988 and 1989, and finished in the top five in Heisman Trophy voting in both his sophomore and junior season. Now Harris has another accomplishment to add to his impressive college football resume: he will now be a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

Harris will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana, this Saturday along with 23 other players. Harris's name will be forever placed among the elite players of college football and shares a class with Heisman Trophy winner Gino Torretta, Tim Brown, and Chris Spielman. Harris said he was surprised to be involved in this class, seeing as he never played a down in the NFL, unlike many of his fellow inductees.

"You know, I was surprised. I'll be honest with you. I'm thinking, most guys in the college hall of fame had a pro career in the NFL," the Brashear Bullet said. "I didn't really have a pro career, so to get inducted into the Hall of Fame, that's huge."

Harris's college accomplishments certainly seem enough for him to be considered one of the best. Major tallied up 2,161 rushing yards and 18 rushing touchdowns, while throwing for 5,173 yards and connecting on 41 touchdowns passes in just three years of play. His dual threat style of play was unique at the time and led the way for dual threat quarterbacks like Michael Vick and Pat White. Major says that although he knows he performed well at WVU, he never thought it would lead to an honor like this.

"It's hard to see that until you get inducted in the Hall of Fame. Then you look at it and say, 'Oh, you know maybe I did have a pretty good career.' I always say I didn't really have anything to hang my hat on. I played at West Virginia and I played in a national championship game, but I really didn't have anything to hang my hat on."

Harris's post collegiate career has been well documented. He left WVU before the start of his senior year to attempt a career in the NFL. His size and talent level seemed to be something that NFL franchises would jump at, but many organizations said they didn't know what to do with a player like Harris. He was disappointedly taken in the 12th round of the 1990 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Raiders. Harris didn't even spend any time at the Raiders training camp. Instead, they asked him to spend a year in the Canadian Football League, where he backed up Doug Flutie with the British Columbia Lions. 

Harris didn't continue in the CFL after that season, opting instead to play a few seasons in the Arena Football League and National Minor Football League before deciding he was done. He returned to WVU to finish college and received a degree in Physical Education. Since then, well, Major has been into many things.

Harris still remained a Mountaineer fan favorite despite his struggles after college and has returned to his alma mater many times to make appearances. He was often present at Mountaineer Maniacs' watch parties and this spring he returned to Mountaineer Field to participate in the Old Timers game before the Gold-Blue Spring Scrimmage. Major's return to the field ended in a 6-6 tie, but he made fans feel some deja vu when he hooked up with his former teammate and receiver Reggie Rembert and showed flashes of his former brilliance in the two hand touch game. Harris says that experience was almost surreal.

"It's crazy. It almost seemed like it was another person playing. You know what I mean? It's been 20 years. Players that are on the football team now were just born when we were playing," Harris said laughing. "So to come back after 20 years and think about that....that's a long time."

Not only is being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame a great honor, but Harris is hoping it could help jump start his coaching career. He has been a high school assistant coach and was the head coach of the Indoor Football League's Steel Valley Smash, and says it's something he'd like to take another shot at.

"With the whole Hall of Fame thing, now I'm thinking in terms of what I'm going to do next. I think I really want to get back into coaching. I definitely think I want to get back into coaching. This whole Hall of Fame thing came out of nowhere, so I'm just going to see what happens next. This will get my name back out there a little bit."

Harris has already heard word that an arena football team in Reno, Nevada is searching for a new head coach and they are interested in him. Harris may have plenty more opportunities like this because of his name becoming prominent once again.

Major's name never lost any luster with fans in West Virginia and he is still regarded as a legend of WVU football. Even though he knows he made mistakes, Harris says he would go back and live his college life again in a heartbeat.

"I always say the best time of my life was college, on and off the field. If I can pick a time in my life when I would want to go back to, it would be college and it's funny because I left school early."

Major won't have to worry about trying to remember his college glory days. Part of his college experience will be remembered and celebrated forever after his induction into the College Football Hall of Fame on Saturday.