BOULDER — "Buffalo Bill" Harris, a star running back for the University of Colorado football team in the early 1960s who would later head the school's Alumni C Club, passed away Tuesday in Marina Del Rey, Calif., after a long illness. Surrounded by family, he was 79.
Harris was named Alumni C Club director in May 2001 and would serve in the position for over nine years, the longest tenure of anyone in the position since it was created in 1996. He had returned to CU the previous October to work in CU's Alumni Association office, specifically to strengthen the Black Alumni Association on campus.