Marv Grim


Marvin Grim is an American former football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Hartnell College in Salinas, California, from 1976 to 1989. Grim was the athletic director at Hartnell from 1989 to 2002.
Grim graduated from Grandview High School in Grandview, Washington. He attended Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, California, where played football as a defensive back. Grim then played at Sacramento State College—now known as California State University, Sacramento—as a running back. Grim carried the ball 110 times for 557 yards for the 1963 Sacramento State Hornets football team and was third in rushing yards in the Far Western Conference.
Grim began his coaching career at Jesuit High School in Carmichael, California. From 1970 to 1976, he coached at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California, as an assistant in football and head coach in golf.
Grim was inducted into the California Community College Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1999. He retired in 2002.