- Joe Brandy
Joseph Ralph Brandy (
November 6 ,1897 —July 20 ,1971 ) was anAmerican football player and coach.After serving as an Army lieutenant in
World War I , Brandy enrolled at Notre Dame and became the startingquarterback for the football team during the undefeated 1920 season—which was the final season for the legendaryGeorge Gipp prior to his death frompneumonia . He was also a starting guard and a captain for thebasketball team.After graduation, Brandy accepted a position as a mathematics instructor and coach at St. Thomas in
St. Paul, Minnesota for five years, directing nearly all of the athletic programs, including football, baseball, basketball and hockey. He would also spend one year in theNFL coaching theMinneapolis Marines in 1924.In 1926, he returned to his hometown of
Ogdensburg, New York , where he headed up the Advance News weekly newspaper for 16 years, and also coached for three seasons at theOgdensburg Free Academy . He then founded radio stationWSLB and operated it until the late 1950s, at which time he became president of the board at Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center.Brandy died in 1971 at the age of 73, and was buried at St. Mary's Cemetery in Ogdensburg.
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