Vince DiFrancesca

Vince DiFrancesca
Biographical details

Sport(s)	Football
Born	(1922-01-01)January 1, 1922 Melrose Park, Illinois
Died	May 21, 2007(2007-05-21) (aged 85) Maurertown, Virginia
Playing career
1942, 1946–1947	Northwestern
Position(s)	Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1949–1953	Western Illinois
1954–1956	Iowa State
1959–1971	Carroll (WI)
Head coaching record
Overall	106–71–7
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Vincent DiFrancesca (January 1, 1922 – May 21, 2007) was a college football player and coach. His total career coaching record was 106 wins, 71 losses, and 7 ties.

Playing career

DiFrancesca was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 31st round of the 1947 NFL draft.^[1]

Coaching career

Western Illinois

DiFrancesca was the head football coach for the Western Illinois University Leathernecks located in Macomb, Illinois and he held that position for five seasons, from 1949 until 1953. His career coaching record at Western Illinois was 38 wins, 7 losses, and 1 ties.^[2] Under DiFrancesca's leadership, Western's team was ranked among the best offensive and defensive teams in the nation for five years.^[3]

Iowa State University

DiFrancesca was also the head coach at Iowa State University from 1954 to 1958.^[4] he was the 21st head coach for the Cyclones in Ames, Iowa. His coaching record at Iowa state was 6 wins, 21 losses, and 1 ties.^[5]

Carroll College

DiFrancesca's final head coaching job was as the 22nd head football coach for the Carroll College Pioneers located in Waukesha, Wisconsin and he held that position for thirteen seasons, from 1959 until 1971. His record at Carroll College was a more successful 62 wins, 43 losses, and 5 ties.^[4]

DiFrancesca also served as athletic director while he was head football coach.^[4] He was inducted into the Carroll College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994.^[6]

Personal life

DiFrancesca died in May 2007 and was the father of both national radio talkshow host Janet Parshall of Janet Parshall's America and the late Charlie DiFrancesca, the subject of the book "Charlie Di: The Story of The Legendary Bond Trader", by William D. Fallon.^[1] And, his youngest son John Di Francesca. DiFrancesca also had a wife Margret, who was a proud Icelandic, Baptist, Republican who converted Vince to her beliefs. The Di Francesca family came from Italy, lived in Evanston, Illinois on Ashland Ave. Raised Roman Catholic, mother Elizabeth Farina Di Francesca and father Salvatore, "Sam". Vince had two older brothers, Pete and Sam. All are deceased now.

References

External links

Vince DiFrancesca at the College Football Data Warehouse

Western Illinois Leathernecks head football coaches

Unknown (1903)
L. H. Laughlin (1904)
A. Laughlin (1905)
Oliver Dickerson (1906)
Coach Barnett (1907–1908)
Coach Taft (1909)
Oliver Dickerson (1910)
Albert Walrath (1911)
Unknown (1912–1913)
E. S. Dowell (1914)
Unknown (1915)
Erskine Jay (1916–1917)
No team (1918)
Erskine Jay (1919)
W. A. Cleveland (1920–1921)
Howard Hawkes (1922–1925)
Ray Hanson (1926–1941)
Wix Garner (1942–1943)
Bob Barnwell (1944)
Wix Garner (1945–1947)
Harold Ave (1948)
Vince DiFrancesca (1949–1953)
Wes Stevens (1954–1956)
Lou Saban (1957–1959)
Art Dufelmeier (1960–1968)
Darrell Mudra (1969–1973)
Brodie Westen (1974–1975)
Bill Shanahan (1976–1978)
Pete Rodriguez (1979–1982)
Bruce Craddock (1983–1989)
Randy Ball (1990–1998)
Don Patterson (1999–2009)
Mark Hendrickson (2008–2012)
Bob Nielson (2013–2015)
Charlie Fisher (2016– )

Iowa State Cyclones head football coaches

Ira C. Brownlie (1892)
W. P. Finney (1893)
Bert German & Glenn Scobey Warner (1894–1898)
Joe Meyers & Glenn Scobey Warner (1899)
C. E. Woodruff (1900)
Edgar N. Clinton (1901)
A. W. Ristine (1902–1906)
Clyde Williams (1907–1912)
Homer C. Hubbard (1913–1914)
Charles Mayser (1915–1919)
Norman C. Paine (1920)
Maury Kent (1921)
Sam Willaman (1922–1925)
C. Noel Workman (1926–1930)
George F. Veenker (1931–1936)
James J. Yeager (1937–1940)
Ray Donels (1941–1942)
Mike Michalske (1942–1946)
Emmett Stuber (1947–1953)
Vince DiFrancesca (1954–1956)
Jim Myers (1957)
Clay Stapleton (1958–1967)
Johnny Majors (1968–1972)
Earle Bruce (1973–1978)
Donnie Duncan (1979–1982)
Jim Criner (1983–1986)
Jim Walden (1987–1994)
Dan McCarney (1995–2006)
Gene Chizik (2007–2008)
Paul Rhoads (2009–2015)
Matt Campbell (2016– )

Carroll Pioneers head football coaches

Ward A. Wescott (1896)
No team (1897)
J. G. Britton (1898)
John D. Schwender (1899–1900)
Mark D. Nave (1901–1903)
John D. Schwender (1904–1905)
No team (1906–1907)
Harrison McJohnston (1908)
Wilfred C. Bleamaster (1909–1911)
William Davies (1912)
Henry W. Lever (1913)
John Edmund Fries (1914–1918)
Roy E. Haberman (1919)
John Edmund Fries (1920)
C. C. Boone (1921)
Matty Bell (1922)
Phillip Norris Armstrong (1923–1930)
Vincent P. Batha (1931)
Glenn Thistlethwaite (1932–1933)
Elmer A. Lampe (1934–1937)
John W. Breen (1938–1948)
Francis J. McCormick (1949–1957)
Lisle Blackbourn (1958)
Vince DiFrancesca (1959–1971)
Steve Miller (1972–1976)
Robert Larsen (1977)
Mark W. Williams (1978–1981)
Merle Masonholder (1979–2000)
Jeff Voris (2001–2005)
Henny Hiemenz (2006–2010)
Mark Krzykowski (2011– )

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