Tony DeMeo

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Tony DeMeo
Sport(s)	Football
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Charleston (WV)
Conference	WVIAC
Record	43–23
Biographical details
Born	(1948-07-05) July 5, 1948 Pelham, New York
Playing career
Iona
Position(s)	Tailback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1973–1974 1975–1978 1979–1980 1981–1987 1988–1989 1990–1991 1992–1993 1994–2001 2002–2004 2005–present	Pace (assistant) Iona Penn (assistant) Mercyhurst Temple (assistant) James Madison (OC) Murray State (OC) Washburn Richmond (OC) Charleston (WV)
Head coaching record
Overall	137–108–4
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Awards 2x Metropolitan Conference COY (1976–1977) Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Association COY (1985) MIAA Coach of the Year (1999) D2football.com WVIAC Football Coach of the Year (2005) Iona College Hall of Fame (1997)

Tony DeMeo (born July 5, 1948) is an American football coach and former player.

DeMeo currently leads the coaching staff at the University of Charleston in West Virginia. His Golden Eagles finished the 2007 season with an 8-3 record and ranked 9th in the Northeast Region of Division II. Charleston was tied for second place in the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.^[1]

DeMeo was the 39th head football coach for Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and he held that position for eight seasons, from 1994 until 2001. He ranks fourth at Washburn in terms of total wins.^[2] DeMeo's successful turn-around at Washburn was complete in 1999 as the Ichabods finished 6–5, the team's first winning season in over 10 years, and DeMeo was named MIAA Coach of the Year.

DeMeo started the football team at Mercyhurst College, fielding the school's first football team in 1981. His overall record was 41–21–2. DeMeo was named 1985 Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Coach of the Year.

He began his head coaching career at his alma mater, Iona College. DeMeo compiled a 22–10–2 record at Iona and was twice named Coach of the Year for the Metropolitan Conference (1976 and 1977). Tony DeMeo was inducted into the Iona College Hall of Fame in 1997 for his affiliation with two undefeated teams: first as a player in 1967 and then as the head coach in 1977.

DeMeo has served as offensive coordinator at the University of Richmond (2002–2004), Murray State University (1992), James Madison University (1990) and Temple University (1988). He has been an assistant football coach at University of Massachusetts Amherst (1991), University of Delaware (1989), University of Pennsylvania (1979–1980), and Pace University (1973–1974).

References

External links

Official site

v t e Iona Gaels head football coaches

Ben Bedini (1965–1969) George Maier (1970–1971) Joe Tricario (1972–1973) John Bloss (1974) Tony DeMeo (1975–1978) Brian Colleary (1979–1984) Harold Crocker (1985–1997) Fred Mariani (1998–2008)

v t e Mercyhurst Lakers head football coaches

Tony DeMeo (1981–1987) Ken Brasington (1988–1989) Jim Chapman (1990–1992) Joe Kimball (1993–2001) Marty Schaetzle (2002– )

Washburn Ichabods head football coaches

Unknown (1891–1893)
W. M. Gains (1894)
No team (1895)
W. Griffith (1896)
Paul Coldren (1897–1898)
William Melford (1899)
Bennie Owen (1900)
Lawrence Banks (1901)
H. Ward Page (1902)
A. R. Kennedy (1903)
John H. Outland (1904–1905)
Garfield Weede (1906–1908)
Robert Stewart (1909–1910)
William L. Driver (1911–1912)
Glen Gray (1913–1915)
A. R. Kennedy (1916–1917)
Ernest Bearg (1918–1919)
Dwight Ream (1920–1921)
Glenn D. Vosburg (1922)
George Woodward (1923–1926)
Roy Wynne (1927–1928)
Ernest Bearg (1929–1935)
Elmer Holm (1936–1941)
Bob Raugh (1942–1943)
Dee Errikson (1944)
Lew Lane (1945)
Dick Godlove (1946–1958)
Ralph Brown (1959–1961)
Ellis Rainsberger (1962–1964)
Ed Linta (1965–1966)
Bill Schaake (1967–1968)
Harold Elliott (1969–1970)
Bob Noblitt (1971–1973)
Larry Elliott (1974–1978)
Gary Hampton (1979–1980)
Glenn Jagodzinske (1981–1982)
George Tardiff (1983–1984)
Larry Elliott (1984–1989)
Dennis Caryl (1990–1993)
Andy Williams (1993)
Tony DeMeo (1994–2001)
Craig Schurig (2002– )

Charleston Golden Eagles head football coaches

Walter Ropp (1904–1907)
Unknown (1908–1909)
Kemper Shelton (1910–1913)
Diener (1914)
No team (1915)
Diener (1916)
Herman R. Beckelheimer (1917)
No team (1918)
William W. Lovell (1919)
Elbert M. Fulton (1920)
Herman R. Beckelheimer (1921–1923)
Elbert M. Fulton (1921–1923)
H. J. Hindman (1926–1928)
Art Rezzonico (1929)
Frank Arritt (1930)
Gibby Welch (1931)
Red Weaver (1932–1933)
Walter H. Walker (1934–1935)
Homer C. Martin (1936)
Thurman R. Ward (1937–1941)
Cecil B. Ross (1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Alderson Propps (1946)
C. E. King (1947–1956)
No team (1957–2002)
Mike Springston (2003–2004)
Tony DeMeo (2005– )

Persondata
Name	Demeo, Tony
Alternative names
Short description	American football player and coach
Date of birth	July 4, 1948
Place of birth	Pelham, New York
Date of death
Place of death

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