Aldo Donelli
| Date of birth | July 22, 1907 |
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| Place of birth | Morgan, Pennsylvania |
| Date of death | August 9, 1994 (aged 87) |
| Place of death | Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| Career information | |
| Position(s) | Halfback/Punter |
| College | Duquesne |
| Career history | |
| As coach | |
| 1930–1935 | Duquesne (freshmen) |
| 1936–1938 | Duquesne (assistant) |
| 1939–1942 | Duquesne |
| 1941 | Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1944 | Cleveland Rams |
| 1947–1956 | Boston University |
| 1957–1967 | Columbia |
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| Military career | |
| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 U.S. Navy
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| Years of service | 1945 |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | July 22, 1907 | ||
| Place of birth | Morgan, Pennsylvania | ||
| Date of death | August 9, 1994 (aged 87) | ||
| Place of death | Fort Lauderdale, Florida | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1925 | Morgan F.C. | ||
| 1929–1930 | Cleveland Slavia | ||
| 1934 | Curry Silver Tops | ||
| 1936 | Heidelberg SC | ||
| 1938 | Castle Shannon SC | ||
| National team | |||
| 1934 | United States | 2 | (5) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Aldo Teo "Buff" Donelli (July 22, 1907 – August 9, 1994) was an American football player and coach, soccer player, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Duquesne University from 1939 to 1942, Boston University from 1947 to 1956, and Columbia University from 1957 to 1967, compiling a career college football coaching record of 105–107–8. Donelli was also a head coach in the National Football League (NFL), with the Pittsburgh Steelers for part of the 1941 season and with the Cleveland Rams in 1944, tallying a career mark of 4–11 in the NFL. From 1951 to 1955 he was the athletic director at Boston University. Donelli played college football at Duquesne and was an assistant football coach at his alma mater from 1930 to 1938, before being promoted to head coach. He played soccer with a number of clubs in the 1920s and 1930s and was a member of the United States men's national soccer team during the 1934 FIFA World Cup. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
In 1925, Donelli played for Morgan F.C., a western Pennsylvania soccer team. At some point, he moved to Cleveland Slavia, playing for them at least the winter of 1929–30. In January and February 1934, he is listed with Curry Silver Tops and then Heidelberg SC from February to April 1936. He also played for Castle Shannon in March 1938.
Donelli was selected to the United States 1934 FIFA World Cup team. In a 4–2 qualifying victory over Mexico in Rome, Italy on May 24, he tallied all four times, becoming the first American to score his first three international goals with the senior team in the same match (Sacha Kljestan would become the second to achieve this feat on January 24, 2009). Three days later in the same stadium, Donelli scored the lone U.S. goal in its 7–1 first-round elimination loss to Italy. It would be the last one any American scored on Italian turf for another 58 years, and also the only Italian American to score against Italy. He was inducted into U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1954.
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