Harry Coleman

{{Short description|American gridiron football player (born 1985)}}

{{for|another person named Harry Coleman|H. Coleman McGehee Jr.}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Harry Coleman

| number = 57

| position = Linebacker

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|11|10}}

| birth_place = Franklin, Louisiana, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 2

| weight_lbs = 206

| high_school = West St. Mary
(Baldwin, Louisiana)

| college = LSU

| undraftedyear = 2010

| pastteams =

• New Orleans Saints ({{NFL Year|2010}})*
• Hartford Colonials ({{UFL Year|2010}})
• Edmonton Eskimos ({{CFL Year|2012}})*

| highlights =

• BCS National Championship (2008)
• AFFL Amateur champion (2018)
• AFFL Ultimate champion (2018)

}}

Harry Corday Coleman (born November 10, 1985) is an American former football linebacker. He played college football at LSU as a safety and was switched to linebacker during his senior year.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} He signed with the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent, but was subsequently released by the team on July 21, 2010. In high school, Coleman played football, basketball, and baseball.{{cite web|title=Saints Sign Fifth-Round Draft Choice Matt Tennant; Re-Sign DE Bobby McCray|url=http://www.neworleanssaints.com/news-and-events/article-1/SAINTS-SIGN-FIFTH-ROUND-DRAFT-CHOICE-MATT-TENNANT-RE-SIGN-DE-BOBBY-McCRAY/b68ec289-65cf-4b4e-bc9c-dd69f869b3a8|publisher=New Orleans Saints|accessdate=March 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184201/http://www.neworleanssaints.com/news-and-events/article-1/SAINTS-SIGN-FIFTH-ROUND-DRAFT-CHOICE-MATT-TENNANT-RE-SIGN-DE-BOBBY-McCRAY/b68ec289-65cf-4b4e-bc9c-dd69f869b3a8|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=dead}} He was later re-signed by the Saints on August 14, 2010.{{Cite web |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/nfl/wires/08/14/2020.ap.fbn.saints.moves.0236 | title=Unknown}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Coleman would ultimately be released again before he ended up in the United Football League. He signed with the Edmonton Eskimos on May 9, 2012,{{cite web |url=http://www.esks.com/article/esks-ink-two-free-agents |title=Esks ink two free agents | Edmonton Eskimos |publisher=Esks.com |date= |accessdate=June 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924002338/http://www.esks.com/article/esks-ink-two-free-agents |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |url-status=dead }} but was released on June 23, 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.esks.com/article/eskimos-announce-roster-moves |title=Eskimos announce roster moves | Edmonton Eskimos |publisher=Esks.com |date=April 3, 2012 |accessdate=June 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627005714/http://esks.com/article/eskimos-announce-roster-moves |archive-date=June 27, 2012 |url-status=dead }} In 2018, Coleman was a member of the amateur flag football team Fighting Cancer during the American Flag Football League's first US Open of Football.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} Fighting Cancer was crowned the America's Champions for winning the amateur branch of the tournament and faced the Professional Champion team, Godspeed, in the Ultimate Final, which they also won.{{Cite web |url=https://americanflag.blog/ |title=American Flag Football league |access-date=July 18, 2018 |archive-date=July 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718234506/https://americanflag.blog/ |url-status=dead }}