Al Caniglia

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Alfred Filadelfo Caniglia (August 21, 1921 – February 19, 1974) was an American football coach, known as Al Caniglia. He was the head football coach at the University of Nebraska Omaha from 1960 to 1973, posting a 75–55–5 record. His teams won five Central Intercollegiate Conference championships (1962–63, 1965, 1967–1968). He also coached at Saint Louis University as an assistant (1948–49), Hillsboro High School in Illinois (1951–1958), and as an assistant at Omaha in 1959 before taking the UNO job. Caniglia died on February 19, 1974, at Bergan Mercy Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.