-- Nick Skorich, the line coach for the football champion Philadelphia Eagles, was elevated today to head coach.

He was there one season before rejoining the Steelers as an assistant coach.

One reason for the transfer was to be closer to his coach, Grandmaster Semyon Furman, who lived in Leningrad.

Love was responsible for the hiring of coaches Herb Sendek, the men's basketball coach, and Dennis Erickson, the men's football coach.

Arizona State Sun Devils football was founded in 1897 under coach Fred Irish.

Falcons coach Leeman Bennett was fired after the loss.

After losing 7 straight games, the decision was made to release head coach Dan Reeves.

In 2004, a new head coach, Jim L. Mora, was hired and Michael Vick returned for the full season.

After finishing the season 7 – 9, however, coach Jim Mora was dismissed and Bobby Petrino, the University of Louisville's football coach, replaced him.

Secondary Coach Emmitt Thomas was named interim coach for the final three games of on December 12.

On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.

First-year head coach Mike Smith was named 2008 NFL Coach of the Year.

Brenly was fired partway through the season and was replaced on an interim basis by third base coach Al Pedrique.

Federko was the head coach / general manager of the St. Louis Vipers InLine team of the Roller Hockey International for the 1993 and 1994 seasons.

" With salutes and courtesies, the Marshal was escorted to Marlborough's coach.

William Ernest " Bill " Walsh ( November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007 ) was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.

Walsh was coaching in Fremont when he interviewed for an assistant coaching position with Marv Levy, who had just been hired as the head coach at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1977, Walsh was hired as the head coach at Stanford where he stayed for two seasons.

In 1979, Walsh was hired as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

By the 1960s, as VFL clubs increasingly recruited the best players from other states, they began to dominate the competition and the last match was played in 1976, with North Adelaide being the last non-Victorian winner in 1972.

For the centenary of the VFL / AFL in 1996, the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established.

The selections have caused some controversy, mainly because of the predominance of VFL players at the expense of those who played in other leagues in the years before there was a national competition.

The first of the matches with coloured uniforms was the WSC Australians in wattle gold versus WSC West Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 January 1979.

Essendon's first VFL game was in 1897 was against Geelong at Corio Oval in Geelong.

Essendon were known as the " Same Olds " ( as in " the same old Essendon ") in order to distinguish the Essendon VFL side ( that played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground ) to which this article refers, from the separate and unconnected Essendon VFA side ( that played at what was then the Essendon Cricket Ground ), which existed from 1900 to 1921.

Aged just twenty five, he had kicked 537 goals in only 98 VFL games in what was generally a fairly low scoring period for the game.

Even that was bittersweet as he quit VFL football to move back to his native Western Australia, where Moss finished out his career as a player and coach at Claremont Football Club.

Having retired as a player in 1979, he had no VFL coaching experience and was regarded as something of a risk, although he had coached in the Australian Army whilst on national service.

At the end of the season, Sheedy signed a new three-year contract, by the end of which he was the second on the list of most VFL / AFL games coached behind Collingwood's Jock McHale.

The club participated in the first football competition in Australia, winning the second season in 1863, was a foundation Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) and the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) in 1897.

The Geelong Football Club was among the most powerful in the VFA ( Victorian Football Association ), winning seven VFA premierships up to the birth of the VFL ( Victorian Football League ) in 1897.

In 1897, the inaugural season of the VFL, no grand final was played, but instead a round-robin finals system.

After three attempts, 29 years of waiting and numerous other applications to enter the VFL, finally North was rewarded for its persistence with admittance to the League in 1925, along with Footscray and Hawthorn.

Barrassi managed to reverse the club's fortunes, taking an unremarkable team that was once regarded as the traditional cellar dwellers of the competition, through a golden era of success that transformed North into one of the powerhouses of the VFL.

Footscray was relatively late in joining the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), the predecessor of the AFL.

In 1993, at age 21, Carey was the second youngest club captain in VFL / AFL history.

Carlton became the first club in the VFL to win three premierships in a row, and its win-loss record of 19 – 1 in the 1908 season ( including finals ) was a record which stood for more than ninety years.

Most football around the country was suspended during the height of World War I, but Carlton continued to compete in a VFL which featured, at its fewest, only four clubs.

The drought was broken with the club's sixth VFL premiership in 1938, when former Subiaco and South Melbourne champion Brighton Diggins was recruited by the club to serve as captain-coach.

Finishing tenth out of twelve and winning only five matches, 1964 was Carlton's worst VFL season to date.

The club's coach during this period was Jock McHale, who served as coach from 1912 to 1949, a VFL / AFL record.