Joe Salem (American football)

Joseph N. Salem, known as Smokey Joe Salem, was born on 1 May 1938 and is an American former college football player and coach. As a head coach he led three programs in succession: the University of South Dakota from 1966 to 1974, Northern Arizona University from 1975 to 1978, and the University of Minnesota from 1979 to 1983. Across those head coaching posts he compiled a record of 96 wins, 91 losses and 3 ties. His later work was as a quarterbacks coach, a position he held at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from 2006 to 2009.