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Joe Fusco
American football player and coach

Joe Fusco

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American football player and coach
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Wilkinsburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Age
87 years
Education
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, USA
Sports Teams
Westminster Titans football (USA)
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Biography

Joseph B. Fusco (born February 3, 1938) is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head coach at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania from 1972 to 1990, compiling a record of 154–34–3. Fusco was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2001.

Fusco had a lifetime association with Westminster College. He was guard on the football team from 1957 to 1959, assistant coach from 1968 to 1971, head coach from 1972 to 1990, and athletic director from 1985 to 1999. His other coaching duties were at Wilmington Area High School and Grove City Area Area High School, where he had a 55–14–3 record from 1960 to 1967. In 19 years at Westminster, his teams were ranked in the NAIA top 20 15 times, made in the NAIA Division II playoffs nine times, had a 27-game winning streak, and won four NAIA Division II Football National Championships, in 1976, 1977, 1988, and 1989. His record as head coach at Westminster was 154–34–3, a winning percentage of .814. His 1977 team won the Lambert Cup as the best small-college team in the East.

Fusco graduated from Westminster in 1960, added a master's degree in education in 1965 and a doctorate in education from the University of Pittsburgh in 1980. In addition to the College Football Hall of Fame, Fusco is in the Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, Western Pennsylvania Hall of Fame, Lawrence County Hall of Fame, and NAIA Hall of Fame.

Head coaching record

College

YearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowl/playoffsNAIA
Westminster Titans (NAIA Division II independent)
1972Westminster7–17
1973Westminster7–16
1974Westminster7–212
1975Westminster6–1–17
1976Westminster10–1W NAIA Division II Championship1
1977Westminster11–0W NAIA Division II Championship1
1978Westminster6–2–114
1979Westminster4–5
1980Westminster5–3
1981Westminster10–1L NAIA Division II Semifinal4
1982Westminster9–2L NAIA Division II Semifinal7
1983Westminster9–2L NAIA Division II Semifinal5
1984Westminster5–2–120
1985Westminster5–4
1986Westminster6–317
1987Westminster9–2L NAIA Division II Quarterfinal7
1988Westminster14–0W NAIA Division II Championship1
1989Westminster13–0W NAIA Division II Championship1
1990Westminster11–2L NAIA Division II Championship3
Westminster:154–34–3
Total:154–34–3
  • Rankings from NAIA Division II poll.
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