Steve Belichick - Coaching Career

Coaching Career

In 1942, Belichick joined the United States Navy, serving in both Europe and the Pacific. He returned to football when he completed his service, becoming the head coach at Hiram College. In 1949, he left Hiram to become the backfield coach at Vanderbilt University, where he spent two seasons before joining the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an assistant to George Barclay in 1953. In 1956, Belichick joined the United States Naval Academy, where he served, primarily as a scout, for over 30 years. His book Football Scouting Methods (Ronald Press, 1962) became a standard, described by Charley Casserly as the best book on the subject he had read.