Joe Boland

Joseph Martin Boland (September 7, 1904 – February 26, 1960) was an American football player and coach and sports broadcaster. He played on the 1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team coached by Knute Rockne. Boland was also a shot putter for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish track and field team, finishing 6th at the 1926 NCAA Track and Field Championships.

Boland also served as the head football coach at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota from 1929 to 1932. He also served as the offensive line coach at his alma mater, the University of Notre Dame from 1934 to 1940 under the head coach of Elmer Layden. After his coaching career, he conceived and started the Irish Football Network becoming the first voice of Notre Dame, as well as calling the Chicago Cardinals games of the National Football League (NFL).

Boland died of a heart attack on February 26, 1960, and was buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery.

He was posthumously inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame on June 7, 2024.

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