Frank Scalercio

{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1960)}}

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| name = Frank Scalercio

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1960|1|3}}

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| player_years1 = 1980–1981

| player_team1 = UC Davis

| coach_years1 = 1983–1992

| coach_team1 = Sonoma State (assistant)

| coach_years2 = 1993–1996

| coach_team2 = Sonoma State

| overall_record = 7–30–1

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| championships = 1 NCAC (1994)

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Frank Scalercio (born January 3, 1960) is an American college football coach, who served as the head coach of the Sonoma State Cossacks from 1993 to 1996. During this time he compiled an overall record of 7–30–1 with future NFL All-Pro guard Larry Allen being his most notable player.{{cite web |url=http://sonomaseawolves.com/sports/2008/7/7/GEN_0707082020.aspx?id=573 |title=Sonoma State Football History |publisher=Sonoma State University |accessdate=March 13, 2011}}{{cite news |title=Sonoma State star takes hard road to NFL |first=Gary |last=Swan |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |page=D8 |date=April 23, 1994}} Scalercio was relieved of his position in December 1996 when the university president Reuben Arminana decided to discontinue the football program in part after students rejected a $300 fee increase to help in covering its operating costs.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cmRPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hAMEAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-scalercio&pg=2425%2C3733222 |title=Sonoma State drops football |newspaper=The Blade |location=Toledo, OH |page=29 |date=December 11, 1996 |accessdate=March 13, 2011}}