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CALIFORN GOLDEN BEARS FOOTBALL<br />
FORMER PLAYER BIOS<br />
A lifelong soccer player who didn’t play football until his junior season<br />
in high school in 2011<br />
Father and late great-grandfather, Dick Dunn, played baseball and<br />
football at Cal, respectively, with his great-grandfather setting the<br />
school’s single-game touchdown record in 1922 with six and his father<br />
setting a pair of single-game marks by hitting two grand slams and<br />
driving in eight runs in 1979 with all records still standing today<br />
Intended major is political economy<br />
MCINERNY’S CAREER GAME HIGHS<br />
PATs Made: 1 (vs. Grambling State, 2015)<br />
PATs Attempted: 1 (vs. Grambling State, 2015)<br />
PAT Percentage (with most PATs made if tie): 100.0, 1-1 (vs. Grambling<br />
State, 2015)<br />
SCORING G TD RUSH RCV RET PAT 2PAT FG TOTAL AVG/G<br />
2015 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.0<br />
TOTAL 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.0<br />
HARDY NICKERSON 47<br />
LB, 6-0, 225.......................................... Oakland, CA<br />
2012-15.....................................Bishop O’Dowd HS<br />
Nickerson played in 35 career games with 27 starts<br />
at Cal with all of his action coming in the last three<br />
campaigns of his four seasons with the program after<br />
redshirting as a true freshman in 2012. Nickerson announced<br />
in April of 2016 that he would join his father and fellow Cal alum<br />
Hardy Nickerson Sr. as a graduate transfer at Illinois in 2016 where the elder<br />
Nickerson was hired as defensive coordinator in March of 2016. Nickerson,<br />
who graduated from Cal with a bachelor’s degree in legal studies in May<br />
of 2016, finished his Cal career with 246 tackles, 9.0 tackles for loss (-27<br />
yards), 2.0 sacks (-9 yards), two forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries<br />
that he returned for 27 yards, one interception that he returned for eight<br />
yards, two passes defensed and one pass breakup over 35 games and 27<br />
starts. Nickerson started all 13 games as a 2015 junior and led the team<br />
with a career-high 112 tackles in his final season at Cal.<br />
CAL CAREER (2012-15)<br />
Played in 35 games with 27 starts with all of his action coming in<br />
the last three campaigns of his four seasons with the program after<br />
redshirting as a true freshman in 2012<br />
Played in all 25 contests over his final two seasons as a 2014 sophomore<br />
and 2015 junior<br />
Registered career totals of 246 tackles, 9.0 tackles for loss (-27<br />
yards), 2.0 sacks (-9 yards), two forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries<br />
that he returned for 27 yards, one interception that he returned<br />
for eight yards, two passes defensed, one pass breakup and one<br />
quarterback hurry<br />
Completed his Cal career 12 stops shy of the school’s all-time top 10<br />
while his career-high 112 tackles as a junior were 20 short of Cal’s<br />
single-season top 10 in that category<br />
Posted the lone interception of his career that he returned eight yards<br />
at USC as a sophomore, while he had a career-high 5.0 tackles for<br />
loss (career-high -16 yards) and the lone quarterback hurry of his<br />
career during his 2013 redshirt freshman campaign<br />
Had a career-high-tying 1.0 sack in both his redshirt freshman and junior<br />
seasons with his sack yards (-7) as a redshirt freshman a career best<br />
Had a single fumble recovery in each of his final three seasons as a<br />
redshirt freshman, sophomore and junior, returning one against UCLA<br />
as a sophomore a career-long 27 yards<br />
Had a career-high two passes defensed as a redshirt freshman while<br />
his one forced fumble and one pass defended both as a redshirt<br />
freshman and sophomore equaled career highs<br />
Picked up the lone pass breakup of his career as a redshirt freshman<br />
at UCLA<br />
Recorded a career-high and team season-high 16 tackles vs. Arizona<br />
State in his final game at Kabam Field at California Memorial Stadium<br />
as a junior<br />
Had a career-high-tying 2.0 tackles for loss both at UCLA and vs.<br />
Arizona as a redshirt freshman as well as at Washington State as a<br />
sophomore, while picking up a career-high nine tackle for loss yards<br />
and his lone career quarterback hurry of his career the same season<br />
vs. Arizona<br />
Led or co-led the team in tackles 10 times including on six occasions<br />
all over his last nine contests as a junior, as well as twice as both a<br />
sophomore and redshirt freshman<br />
A two-time Pac-12 All-Academic selection who earned second-team<br />
recognition as a redshirt freshman and an honorable mention pick as<br />
a sophomore<br />
OTHER<br />
Full name is Hardy William Lindsay Nickerson<br />
Born January 5, 1994<br />
Parents are Hardy Otto Nickerson and Amy Nickerson, both Cal alums<br />
Father played 16 seasons in the NFL, earning four All-Pro and five Pro<br />
Bowl selections, is a member of the Cal Athletic Hall of Fame, still<br />
ranks second on the school’s all-time list for tackles, and has coached<br />
at the NFL, college and prep level who is currently in his first season<br />
as the defensive coordinator at Illinois in 2016<br />
Coached by his father during his final two seasons at Bishop O’Dowd<br />
High School<br />
Twin sister Haleigh Nickerson is a fellow Cal alum<br />
Played his first football game at the age of eight at Lambeau Field as a<br />
member of a Green Bay Pop Warner team<br />
Attended eight different schools from kindergarten through his senior<br />
year of high school due to his father’s NFL career<br />
Ambidextrous as he both plays sports and throws with his right hand<br />
but writes with his left<br />
Graduated from Cal in May of 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in legal<br />
studies<br />
NICKERSON’S CAREER GAME HIGHS<br />
Tackles: 16 (vs. Arizona State, 2015)<br />
Tackles For Loss: 2.0 (three times, last at Washington State, 2014)<br />
Tackle For Loss Yards: 9 (vs. Arizona, 2013)<br />
Sacks: 1.0 (twice, last at Oregon, 2015)<br />
Sack Yards: 7 (vs. Arizona, 2013)<br />
Forced Fumbles: 1 (twice, last vs. UCLA, 2014)<br />
Fumble Recoveries: 1 (three times, last at Washington, 2015)<br />
Fumble Return Yards: 27 (vs. UCLA, 2014)<br />
Long Fumble Return: 27 (vs. UCLA, 2014)<br />
Interceptions: 1 (at USC, 2014)<br />
Interception Return Yards: 8 (at USC, 2014)<br />
Long Interception Return: 8 (at USC, 2014)<br />
Quarterback Hurries: 1 (vs. Arizona, 2013)<br />
Pass Breakups: 1 (at UCLA, 2013)<br />
INTERCEPTIONS G NO YARDS TD LONG AVG/R AVG/G<br />
2013 10 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0<br />
2014 12 1 8 0 8 8.0 0.7<br />
2015 13 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0<br />
TOTAL 35 1 8 0 8 8.0 0.2<br />
TACKLES G UA A TOTAL TFL PD FF FR BLK QBH<br />
2012 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
2013 10 35 29 64 5.0 1 1 1 0 1<br />
2014 12 33 37 70 2.0 1 1 1 0 0<br />
2015 13 54 58 112 2.0 0 0 1 0 0<br />
TOTAL 35 122 124 246 9.0 2 2 3 0 1<br />
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2016 CALIFORNIA FOOTBALL INFORMATION GUIDE
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