Joe EcholsJoseph G. Echols was an American football coach, college athletics administrator, and Negro league baseball player.Early life and baseball careerRaised in Englewood, New Jersey, Echols played prep football at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. In 1939, Echols played for the Newark Eagles of the Negro National League.Coaching careerEchols served as the head football coach at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1950 to 1954 and at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia from 1955 to 1960. The home basketball arena on Norfolk State's campus is named Joseph G. Echols Memorial Hall in his honor.DeathEchols died at the age of 60, on March 28, 1977.Head coaching record