Dennis Fitzgerald
Dennis Fitzgerald was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States on March 13th, 1936 and is the American Football Player And Coach. At the age of 64, Dennis Fitzgerald biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Fitzgerald was an assistant football coach at Michigan (1963–1968), the University of Kentucky (1969–1970), and Kent State University (1971–1974). In January 1975, Fitzgerald replaced Don James as Kent State's head football coach. In three years as head coach, Fitzgerald compiled a record of 18–16. Nick Saban began his coaching career as an assistant coach on Fitzgerald's Kent State staff.
In March 1978, Fitzgerald resigned his position at Kent State to become an assistant coach at Syracuse University. Fitzgerald remained with Syracuse as linebackers coach and defensive coordinator for three years from 1978 to 1980.
In March 1981, Fitzgerald was hired as the defensive coordinator for Tulane University.
In July 1982, Fitzgerald was hired by the Pittsburgh Steelers following an interview with head coach Chuck Noll. The Pittsburgh Press described the hiring as follows:
Fitzgerald spent nine years as an assistant coach under Noll, serving as the linebackers coach from 1982 to 1986 and special tams coach from 1987 to 1988. He came within one game of the Super Bowl in 1984, when the Steelers lost to the Miami Dolphins in the AFC Championship Game. After the Steelers gave up six blocked punts in the 1988 NFL season, Fitzgerald was fired from the Steelers' coaching staff in January 1989.
When Jack Lambert was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990, he asked Fitzgerald to present him at the induction ceremony. Lambert said, "I chose coach Fitzgerald because I felt he, more than anyone else, taught me the techniques and the fundamentals that I used throughout college and professional football. But even more importantly, he took a raw talent and raw toughness in me and refined them into a mental discipline; a discipline that is necessary to excel."
After leaving the Steelers, Fitzgerald was the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Las Vegas Aces in the Professional Spring Football League starting in 1992, and the Cleveland Thunderbolts in the Arena Football League.
In 1994, Fitzgerald served as the defensive line coach at Grand Valley State University. He continued to coach at Grand Valley through the 1996 season.
Fitzgerald was the defensive coordinator for the Albany Firebirds of the Arena Football League from 1995 to 1996 and 1998 to 1999. During the 1995 and 1996 seasons, Fitzgerald continued to coach at Grand Valley in the fall while coaching with the Firebirds during the spring and summer.
In between stints with the Firebirds, Fitzgerald spent the 1997 season as defensive coordinator for the James Madison Dukes. Shortly after he was hired at James Madison, the Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote, "So last winter, when James Madison coach Alex Wood sought a zero-tolerance coordinator who could firm up a defense that turned flaccid over the past two seasons, he called Fitzgerald, who's 61 going on 35."