Jimmy DeAngelis

Mariano Vincenzo "Jimmy" DeAngelis (October 20, 1910 – December 26, 2007) was an American football player and coach. He was a member of the Yale's 1934 "Ironmen" football team that upset an undefeated Princeton team.

Early life DeAngelis was born in Hamden, Connecticut. In 1941, DeAngelis followed Yale head coach Ducky Pond to Bates College. In addition to serving as an assistant football coach, DeAngelis was also the school's head basketball coach and freshman baseball coach. In 1942, DeAngelis left Bates to enter the United States Navy. He was commissioned as a lieutenant junior grade and assigned to the University of North Carolina, where he worked as a physical fitness instructor of aviation cadets.

After the war, DeAngelis resumed his coaching career at Yale. He was freshman coach from 1945 to 1947. In 1948, he was the line coach for the Toledo Rockets football team. The following season, he took the same position with the Nebraska Cornhuskers. In 1950, he joined the staff of former Yale head coach Howie Odell at the University of Washington.

Later life In 1953, DeAngelis returned to Connecticut, where he worked as a sales manager.