Bill Redell

{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1941)}}

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Bill Redell

| image =

| alt =

| caption =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1941|4|17}}

| birth_place = Red Bluff, California, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| alma_mater =

| player_years1 = 1962–1963

| player_team1 = Occidental

| player_years2 = 1964–1966

| player_team2 = Edmonton Eskimos

| player_years3 = 1967–1968

| player_team3 = Hamilton Tiger-Cats

| player_years4 = 1969

| player_team4 = Calgary Stampeders

| player_positions = Quarterback, cornerback, placekicker, punter

| coach_years1 = 1982

| coach_team1 = Crespi Carmelite HS (CA)

| coach_years2 = 1983–1984

| coach_team2 = Portland Breakers (TE)

| coach_years3 = 1985–1991

| coach_team3 = Crespi Carmelite HS

| coach_years4 = 1992–1999

| coach_team4 = St. Francis HS (CA)

| coach_years5 = 2000–2011

| coach_team5 = Oaks Christian HS (CA)

| coach_years6 = 2012

| coach_team6 = Occidental

| coach_years7 = 2014

| coach_team7 = Oaks Christian HS (CA)

| overall_record = 2–7 (college)

| bowl_record =

| tournament_record =

| championships = 8 CIF

| awards = CFL All-Star (1966)

| coaching_records =

| CFBHOF_year = 2001

| CFBHOF_id = 1941

}}

Bill Redell (born April 17, 1941) is a former American football coach and member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Redell served as head coach at Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, California, where in 1986, he led the Celts to a 13-1 record and the CIF-SS Big Five Conference Championship, avenging their only regular season loss with a 49-14 victory over St.John Bosco High at Anaheim Stadium.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailynews.com/2016/08/25/30-years-later-1986-crespi-football-team-still-remains-areas-best/|title=30 years later, 1986 Crespi football team still remains area's best|date=25 August 2016}} Redell also coached at Oaks Christian High School in Westlake Village, California and developed them into one of California's better high school football programs. The Oaks Christian Lions finished sixth on the final USA Today prep football Super25 ranking of 2006.[https://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps/football/poll/2006-super25.htm USA TODAY's prep football Super 25]

Redell played quarterback at San Marino High School in San Marino, California, earning a scholarship from the University of Southern California (USC), but later transferred to play at Occidental College, in 1962 and 1963.{{Cite web |url=http://www.toacorn.com/news/2006/0914/Sports/080.html |title=Man behind the machine |access-date=September 13, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109033741/http://www.toacorn.com/news/2006/0914/sports/080.html |archive-date=January 9, 2009 |url-status=dead }} In his two years at Occidental he passed for 1,567 yards and rushed for 1,583. He passed for 11 touchdowns and rushed for eight. He completed 68 percent of pass attempts. He averaged 6.3 yards on each rushing attempt. He played cornerback on defense and had seven pass interceptions in his career. He did the team's punting and place kicking, making 36 of 43 extra-point attempts. He led Occidental to two championships in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and was named to the NAIA All-America team in 1963.

After college, Redell played six years in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and Calgary Stampeders. In 1970, he became a football coach. His first jobs were as assistant on the collegiate level at California State University, Fullerton and California Lutheran University. Then he became a head coach at the high school level.[http://www.usafootball.com/articles/coaching/center-articles/13-coaching-center/82-featured-articles/458-oaks-christian-high-school-calif-coach-bill-redells-road-to-success.php USA Football.com: Oaks Christian High School (Calif.) Coach Bill Redell's Road to Success]

Redell was also a chief executive officer of Bolton & Co. Insurance Brokers in South Pasadena, California. He is married and has three sons.[http://www.oxy.edu/x2849.xml Bill Redell Inducted Into National College Football Hall of Fame] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319173200/http://www.oxy.edu/x2849.xml |date=March 19, 2012 }}, Occidental College, April 26, 2001