Joe Scannella

Joe Scannella

Joseph I. Scannella is a former professional football coach.

Career

Joe began his coaching career as an assistant at Clifton High School in Clifton, New Jersey. His first head coaching job was at Oceanside High School in Oceanside, New York. He was the Sailors head coach from 1955-1959 before becoming the Ends Coach at Cornell. He left Cornell after one season to become head coach at Baldwin High School. In 1964 he was hired by C.W. Post to serve as head football coach and Athletic Director. In four seasons with the Pioneers he had a 19-15-2 record. [http://www.cwpostpioneers.com/Sports/football/2006/archive.asp] He left in 1968 to take a front office job with the New York Giants. He was hired by Holy Cross in February 1969 to serve as the Crusaders offensive coordinator but resigned a week later to become offensive backfield coach for the Montreal Alouettes. In 1970 he was hired by the University of Vermont to coach the Catamounts football team. In 1972 he became the special teams coach for the Oakland Raiders under head coach John Madden. He would be part of the coaching staff in 1976 when the Raiders defeated the Minnesota Vikings 32-14 in Super Bowl XI. He would leave the Raiders to become head coach of the Montreal Alouettes. Scannella coached the Alouettes from 1978-1981, finishing with a 28-28-2 record. Scannella's Alouettes appeared in the 66th and 67th Grey Cups, both losses. [http://www.ravensnest1.com/Grey%20Cup.htm]

He was Sam Rutigliano's running backs coach in Cleveland from 1982-1983 before being promoted to offensive coordinator in 1984. He was not retained by new head coach Marty Schottenheimer following the '84 season. [http://www.clevelandbrowns.com/team/history/assistant.php]

In 1987 he returned to the Oakland Raiders, this time as the team's offensive backfield coach. Here he would coach two former Heisman Trophy winners Marcus Allen and Bo Jackson. After the 1988, he and quarterbacks coach Tom Walsh were fired by head coach Mike Shanahan, but owner Al Davis refused to allow this and the two coaches stayed on. Scannella retired from coaching in February 1994. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E1DD1038F931A25751C0A962958260] He served as a scout for the Indianapolis Colts during the 2000s.

He was a quarterback at Lehigh University from 1947-1949 before becoming a coach.


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