Joe Bellino

The son of a Naval Academy coach, Bill Belichick grew up in the game: listening to Joe Bellino, catching balls thrown by Roger Staubach and waiting for a sideline to call his own

NOVEMBER 28, 1960

My left foot is aching again. It always does when the barometer is falling. For 26 years I've been able to predict the weather with my left foot, a very palpable memento of my brush with the legend.

Joe Bellino, the old Navy hero and Heisman Trophy winner, is fighting for a starting position with the Boston Patriots. John Underwood, who last week saw the small, hard-muscled ex-Middie in a rookie game also...

Perhaps what the Navy lacrosse team needed was Joe Bellino, whose mere presence on an athletic field seems to turn Army to jelly. Unfortunately for the lacrossers, Bellino was at West Point last Saturday helping to...