Joe Echols
American football coach, college athletics administrator, and baseball player
About Joe Echols
Lived 1915 – 1977 (aged 61–62). Joe Echols was an American american football coach and baseball player.
Joseph G. Echols (March 23, 1917 – March 28, 1977) was an American football coach, college athletics administrator, and Negro league baseball player.
Early life and baseball career Raised in Englewood, New Jersey, Echols played prep football at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood.
Coaching career Echols served as the head football coach at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1950 to 1954 and at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia from 1955 to 1960. The home basketball arena on Norfolk State's campus is named Joseph G. Echols Memorial Hall in his honor.
Death Echols died at the age of 60, on March 28, 1977.
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Who was Joe Echols?
American football coach, college athletics administrator, and baseball player
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Joe Echols was born in 1915.
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Joe Echols died on 28 March 1977.
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Joe Echols was an american football coach and baseball player.
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