HIGH POINT, N.C. - The San Francisco 49ers have announced that former High Point University baseball student-athlete Tom Gamble ('87) has been promoted to assistant general manager.
 
Now in his 29^th season in the NFL, Gamble takes over the assistant GM role after spending the last two years as senior personnel executive.
 
As a member of the HPU baseball team, Gamble helped take the team from an 11-21 record in his freshman season to 31-15 as a sophomore in 1985. He posted a 1.66 ERA as a sophomore, still the fourth-best single-season mark in school history. Gamble went 6-4 that season with six complete games and 47 strikeouts to earn All-Carolinas Conference and NAIA All-District honors.
 
With a 4-3 record and 2.84 ERA in his senior season, Gamble helped High Point to the 1987 Conference Carolinas title. Gamble's HPU record of 17 career complete games still stands. He finished his career with a 20-14 record and 164 strikeouts in 258 innings of work.
 
Gamble has an extensive resume which includes work in both college and pro personnel, contract negotiations and a stint in the coaching ranks. He is the product of a football family, as his father, Harry, served as the General Manager and later the President of the Philadelphia Eagles. Harry also served as head coach of both the University of Pennsylvania and Lafayette College, before coaching on Dick Vermeil's Eagles staff.
 
Gamble returned to the 49ers in 2015 after serving as vice president of player personnel for the Philadelphia Eagles from 2013-15. He worked with Chip Kelly in Philadelphia before reuniting with the coach in San Francisco.
 
Prior to Philadelphia, Gamble had worked with the 49ers as Director of Pro Personnel, monitoring every NFL roster with an emphasis on scouting talent of upcoming pro free agents, while also maintaining continuous depth of personnel on the 49ers roster. Early in 2010, he had been assigned additional responsibilities in collegiate scouting, particularly regarding the preparation for last year's NFL draft.
 
During his time in the NFL, Gamble has helped build 12 playoff teams – five with Indianapolis, five with Philadelphia and two with San Francisco. Prior to his arrival in the Bay Area, Gamble served as a college scout for the Colts from 1998 through the 2005 draft under veteran NFL executive Bill Polian.
 
Gamble originally entered the NFL as an assistant in the player personnel department of Eagles in 1988. He stayed with Philadelphia through 1994, serving as a college scouting administrator, area scout, contract negotiator, and later worked as the director of pro scouting.
 
From 1995 to 1996, Gamble served as a defensive assistant/quality control coach with the New York Jets. He later worked as a part-time college scout for the Carolina Panthers before serving as a pro scout for the Baltimore Ravens in 1997.
 
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