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John Gagliardi
Title	Head Coach
College	St. John's
Sport	Football
Born	November 1, 1926 (1926-11-01) (age 83)
Place of birth	Trinidad, Colorado
Career highlights
Coaching stats
College Football DataWarehouse
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1949-1952 1953-present	Carroll College St. John's University
College Football Hall of Fame, 2006 (Bio)

For other persons of the same name see John Gagliardi (disambiguation)

John Gagliardi (born November 1, 1926, in Trinidad, Colorado) is the head collegiate football coach at St. John's University. He is college football's career coaching victories leader with 471 wins.

Born to Ventura and Antoinetta Gagliardi, John Gagliardi (pronounced Guh-LAHR-dee) began coaching football in 1943 at the age of 16 when his high school coach was called into service during World War II. He was a player-coach that senior year of high school and continued to coach high schools while obtaining his college degree at Colorado College.

At the age of 22, with six years of high school coaching Gagliardi was hired at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. In four seasons as head coach at Carroll, Gagliardi compiled a 24-6-1 record, winning three conference championships.

Gagliardi left Carroll for the Catholic Benedictine school St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

In 56 seasons at St. John's, Gagliardi has won a school- and conference-record 27 MIAC titles and four national championships, in 1963 (at the Camellia Bowl), 1965, 1976, and 2003.

Gagliardi has a 471-126-11 career record and a 447-120-10 record at St. John's.

He broke the record for NCAA career coaching wins on November 8, 2003, passing Eddie Robinson with his 409th win. The win also gave St. John's its 23rd MIAC championship and an automatic berth in the NCAA playoff. Gagliardi and St. John's went on to win the national championship with a 24-6 win over Mount Union. The 13,107 fans who witnessed the victory over Bethel at St. John's Clemens Stadium were the largest crowd in NCAA Division III history.

In 1993, Jostens and the J Club of St. John's University began awarding the Gagliardi Trophy to the most outstanding player in NCAA Division III.

On August 11, 2006, Gagliardi became the first active head coach to be enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame (Chris Ault, though currently active, was not an active coach when inducted in 2002). The honor is shared now with Joe Paterno and Ault as the three active coaches who are in the College Football Hall of Fame.

Gagliardi is known for his unique coaching approach, which he calls “Winning with No's”: no calling him coach--simply call him John; no calisthenics; no tackling during practice; no swearing; and no whistles.

More information on Gagliardi, his program, and his unique coaching style can be found in Austin Murphy's book The Sweet Season and Jim Collison's book No-How Coaching.

[edit] Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl	Coaches#	AP°
Carroll College () (1949–1952)
1949	Carroll College	5-1
1950	Carroll College	5-2
1951	Carroll College	6-1-1
1952	Carroll College	8-2
Carroll College:		24-6-1
Saint John's (MIAC) (1953–present)
1953	Saint John's	6-2		T-1st
Saint John's:		447-120-10
Total:		471-126-11
National Championship         Conference Title         Conference Division Title
†Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll.

v • d • e Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award winners Division I FBS 2006: Schiano | 2007: Zook | 2008: Saban Division I FCS 2007: Kill | 2008: Matthews Division II 2007: O'Boyle | 2008: Broyles Division III 2007: Gagliardi | 2008: Kehres