Brian Colleary

{{Short description|American former football coach and college athletics administrator}}

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| player_years1 = 1972–1973

| player_team1 = Fordham

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| coach_team1 = Blessed Sacrament HS (NY)

| coach_years2 = 1979–1983

| coach_team2 = Iona

| admin_years1 = 1982–1984

| admin_team1 = Iona (assistant AD)

| admin_years2 = 1984–1985

| admin_team2 = Iona (associate AD)

| admin_years3 = 1985–1989

| admin_team3 = Marist

| admin_years4 = 1989–2005

| admin_team4 = Duquesne

| admin_years5 = 2005–2012

| admin_team5 = St. John's (sr. associate AD)

| overall_record = 26–21–2

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Brian Colleary is an American former football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York from 1979 to 1983, compiling a record of 26–21–2. Colleary was the athletic director at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York from 1985 to 1989 and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1989 to 2005. He graduated from Fordham University in 1974.{{cite news |last=Jasner |first=Phil |title=Colleary picked as Marist A.D. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36760165/poughkeepsie_journal/ |newspaper=Poughkeepsie Journal |location=Poughkeepsie, New York |date=May 29, 1985 |page=21 |access-date=October 5, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}

Head coaching record

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Iona Gaels

| conf = Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference

| startyear = 1979

| endyear = 1980

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1979

| name = Iona

| overall = 6–4

| conference = 3–2

| confstanding = 3rd

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1980

| name = Iona

| overall = 6–4–1

| conference = 3–1–1

| confstanding = T–2nd

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Iona Gaels

| conf = NCAA Division III independent

| startyear = 1981

| endyear = 1983

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

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| year = 1981

| name = Iona

| overall = 5–5

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| year = 1982

| name = Iona

| overall = 5–3–1

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| year = 1983

| name = Iona

| overall = 3–6

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Iona

| overall = 26–21–2

| confrecord = 6–3–1

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{{CFB Yearly Record End

| overall = 26–21–2

| bowls = no

| poll = no

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| legend = no

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References