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{{Short description|American football player and coach (1897–1971)}}
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{{Infobox Canadian Football League biography
| name          = Joe Brandy
| image         = 
| image_size    = 
| caption       = 
| position      = [[Quarterback]], [[Halfback (American football)|halfback]]
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1897|11|6|mf=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Ogdensburg, New York]], U.S.
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1971|7|20|1897|11|6}}
| death_place   = near [[Ogdensburg, New York]], U.S.
| college       = [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish|Notre Dame]]
| coaching_years1 = 1921–1925
| coaching_team1 = [[St. Thomas Tommies football|St. Thomas (MN)]]
| coaching_years2 = 1924
| coaching_team2 = [[Minneapolis Marines/Red Jackets|Minneapolis Marines]]
| CoachPFR      = BranJo0
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|branch               = [[File:United States Department of the Army Seal.svg|20px|United States Army seal]] [[United States Army|U.S. Army]]
|serviceyears         = 1917–1919
|rank                 = [[Lieutenant]]
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|battles              = [[World War I]]
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'''Joseph Ralph Brandy''' (November 6, 1897 – July 20, 1971) was an [[American football]] player and coach.

After serving as a [[United States Army]] lieutenant in [[World War I]], Brandy enrolled at the [[University of Notre Dame]] and became the starting [[quarterback]] for the [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Fighting Irish football team]] during the undefeated 1920 season—which was the final season for the legendary [[George Gipp]] prior to his death from [[pneumonia]]. Brandy was also a starting guard and a captain for the [[basketball]] team.

After graduation, Brandy accepted a position as a mathematics instructor and coach at the College of St. Thomas—now known as [[University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)|University of St. Thomas]] in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]] for five years, directing nearly all of the athletic programs, including football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. He also spent one year in the [[National Football League]] (NFL) coaching the [[Minneapolis Marines]] in 1924.

In 1926, he returned to his hometown of [[Ogdensburg, New York]], where he headed up the Advance News weekly newspaper for 16 years, and also coached for three seasons at the [[Ogdensburg Free Academy]]. He then founded radio station [[WSLB]] and operated it until the late 1950s, at which time he became president of the board at Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center.

Brandy died on July 20, 1971, at his summer home located on the [[Saint Lawrence River]] near Ogdensburg.<ref>{{cite news |last=Byrne |first=Jimmy  |title=Brandy Fame Lasted |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64627959/the-minneapolis-star/ |newspaper=[[The Minneapolis Star]] |location=[[Minneapolis|Minneapolis, Minnesota]] |date=July 23, 1971 |page=26 |access-date=December 4, 2020 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{Open access}} }}</ref>

==Head coaching record==
===College football===
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies football|St. Thomas Cadets]]
 | conf      = [[Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]]
 | startyear = 1921
 | endyear   = 1924
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1921 college football season|1921]]
 | name         = St. Thomas
 | overall      = 4–2
 | conference   = 2–2
 | confstanding = T–4th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1922 college football season|1922]]
 | name         = St. Thomas
 | overall      = 8–1
 | conference   = 4–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1923 college football season|1923]]
 | name         = St. Thomas
 | overall      = 5–0
 | conference   = 1–0
 | confstanding = 4th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1924 college football season|1924]]
 | name         = St. Thomas
 | overall      = 5–2
 | conference   = 3–0
 | confstanding = 2nd
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies football|St. Thomas Cadets]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1925
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1925 college football season|1925]]
 | name         = St. Thomas
 | overall      = 5–2–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = St. Thomas
 | overall    = 27–7–1
 | confrecord = 10–2
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 27–7–1
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Find a Grave}}

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[[Category:1897 births]]
[[Category:1971 deaths]]
[[Category:American football halfbacks]]
[[Category:American football quarterbacks]]
[[Category:American men's basketball players]]
[[Category:Minneapolis Marines coaches]]
[[Category:Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players]]
[[Category:Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball players]]
[[Category:St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies baseball coaches]]
[[Category:St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies football coaches]]
[[Category:St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies men's basketball coaches]]
[[Category:St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies men's ice hockey coaches]]
[[Category:College men's basketball head coaches in the United States]]
[[Category:United States Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Basketball coaches from New York (state)]]
[[Category:United States Army officers]]
[[Category:People from Ogdensburg, New York]]
[[Category:Players of American football from New York (state)]]
[[Category:20th-century American sportsmen]]


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