| Height: | 5-11 |
| Weight: | 190 |
| Year: | Senior |
| Hometown: | Bonita, Calif. |
| High School: | Francis Parker |
| Position: | RB |
| Major: | Sociology |
| House Affiliation: | Quincy |
- Gino Gordon 2010 Photo Gallery
- Gino Gordon 2010 Highlight Video
- Gino Gordon Player of the Year Announcement
At Harvard
2010: Named Ivy League co-Player of the Year and recipient
of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup in a vote of the league's head coaches
... Named to the All-New England FCS team by the New England
Sportswriters Association ... Named as the Frederick Greeley
Crocker Award (MVP) by his teammates ... Named
first team All-Ivy League ... Named to American Youth Football Ring
of Honor - one of three collegiate players and one of six players
overall named to the list ... Compiled 1,059 rushing yards to rank
seventh on Harvard's single-season list ... Finished his career as
the fourth all-time leadering rusher at 2,643 yards with 23
touchdowns (25 total) while ranking as Harvard's all-time leader in
yards per carry (5.3) ... Led the Ivy League in 2010 in yards per
carry with a 6.3 mark ... Averaged 5.6 yards per carry in the
opener againt Holy Cross with 62 yards and a touchdown on 11
carries ... Named to the College Football Performance Awards
honorable mention at running back on Oct. 4 after rushing for a
career-high 170 yards on just 12 carries with two touchdowns in a
win at Lafayette. Gordon’s final carry of the day came with
eight minutes left in the 3rd quarter and he took it 74
yards for a TD, marking the longest run from scrimmage for Harvard
since 2006 ... Ivy League Honor Roll on Oct. 5 ... Named to the Ivy
League Honor Roll on Oct. 11 after rushing for 158 yards and a
touchdown on 21 carries (7.5 ypc) and had two receptions for 24
yards in a win over Cornell ... Ivy League Honor Roll after rushing
for 118 yards and a TD on 22 carries (5.4 ypc) against Lehigh ...
New England Football Writers Gold Helmet winner, College Football
Performance Awards National Running Back of the Week and Ivy League
Offensive Player of the Week for his efforts at Princeton where he
ran for 204 yards and a TD on just 20 carries while also catching
four passes for 30 yards ... Had 17 runs for 93 yards (5.5 ypc) in
the first half at Dartmouth before sitting out the second half ...
Honor Roll after rushing for 109 yards and a TD against Columbia
... Honor Roll after rushing for 113 yards and one touchdown on 21
carries (5.2 ypc) while also catching four passes for 22 yards at
Penn ... Gordon went over the 1,000-yard mark at Penn, becoming the
first Harvard RB to reach 1,000 yards since Clifton Dawson
’07 did so four-straight years from 2003-06 … Gordon
is just the fourth Harvard back to reach that level in the past 26
seasons (Clifton Dawson '07, Chris Menick ’98 and Eion Hu
’97) ... He also became the first player in 33 games since
2007 to rush for 100 yards against the Penn defense ... Had two
rushing touchdowns in a win over Yale, becoming just the fifth
player to score at least 10 rushing touchdowns in a single
season.
2009: Named All-Ivy League first team at running
back ... Named preseason All-Ivy League Second Team by Phil
Steele's Football Magazine ... Named to the Ivy League weekly
Honor Roll on Sept 21. ... Had 93 total yards with two
touchdowns in the opener against then-No. 23 Holy Cross ...
Averaged 6.2 yards per carry with 137 yards and a touchdown in a
win at Cornell on Oct. 10 ... Had 84 rushing yards and a TD on just
nine carries (9.3 ypc) in a win over Princeton ... Named Ivy League
Player of the Week and New England Football Writers' Gold Helmet
recipient after rushing for 119 yards on 8 carries (14.9 ypc) with
three touchdowns and 103 receiving yards on four receptions in a
win over Dartmouth, becoming the first Harvard player to record 100
yards rushing and receiving in the same game ... Averaged 5.2 yards
per carry with two TDs in a win at Columbia ... Averaged 6.1 yards
per carry with 85 on 14 rushes and used a 360-degree spin move to
break out of a tackle for a loss on 4th-and-four with Harvard
trailing 10-0 late in the fourth quarter, allowing Harvard to score
the first of two late touchdowns to win, 14-10.
2008: Named to the All-Ivy League
second-team at running back after rushing for 578 yards on 119
rushes for an average of 4.9 yards per carry and five touchdowns
...Also caught 14 passes for 82 yards and a touchdown ... Had 49
rushing yards including a four-yard touchdown run in a win at
Lafayette ... Had 42 rushing yards and scored the game-winning
touchdown on a six-yard carry in the final minutes of a 24-20 win
at Princeton ... Ran for 78 yards on just six carries (13.0 ypc) in
the first half of a 35-7 win at Dartmouth ... Had a touchdown run
and 10 touches for 38 yards in the game ... Ran for a career-long
63 yard touchdown in a 24-21 win at Penn ... Named as the Ivy
League Tri-Offensive Player of the Week after rushing for a
career-high 168 yards on 39 carries and the game's long touchdown
as Harvard defeated Yale, 10-0, for its 13th Ivy league
championship. Gordon's day was the best afternoon for a Harvard
tailback against Yale since 1996 when Eion Hu also racked up 177
yards on the ground via 40 carries en route to a 26-21 Harvard
victory. Gordon also added two receptions for 19 yards in the
victory.
2007: Appeared in nine games ... Two-time Ivy
League Rookie of the Week and three-time Honor Roll honoree ...
Made starts against Lehigh and Lafayette ... Totaled 101 carries
for 374 yards (3.7 ypc) ... Had 20 carries for 69 yards at Lehigh
Sept. 29 and 17 carries for 74 yards against Lafayette Oct. 13 ...
Major H recipient.
Background
At Francis Parker: First team all-state
and San Diego Union-Tribune all-county selection ... Led San Diego
County in rushing as a senior (156 yards per game) ... Three-time
All-Coastal League pick ... Helped school to the CIF San Diego
Division V championship ... Chosen to all-county All-Academic first
team ... National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame
Scholar Athlete ... Finalist for the KUSI Prep Pigskin Report
Silver Pigskin Award as the top prep player in San Diego ... Named
athlete of the month by the San Diego Hall of Champions ...
National Honor Society ... Chosen to National Society of High
School Scholars and the California Scholastic Federation.

