Joe Raymond Peace
Peace as a Louisiana Tech Bulldogs player in 1966
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born | June 5, 1945 |
| Playing career | |
| 1964–1967 | Louisiana Tech |
| Position(s) | Linebacker |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1974–1982 | Northwestern State (assistant) |
| 1983–1987 | Louisiana Tech (assistant) |
| 1988–1995 | Louisiana Tech |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 40–44–4 |
| Bowls | 0–0–1 |
Joe Raymond Peace, Jr. (born June 5, 1945), is the former Louisiana Tech University head football coach of eight seasons from 1988 to 1995. He ushered the Bulldogs football program into NCAA Division I-A football in 1989.
Peace is an alumnus of Louisiana Tech, located in Ruston in North Louisiana. Prior to becoming the Tech head coach in 1988, he had coached at two high schools and for the rival Northwestern State University Demons in .
Joe Raymond Peace coaches the same way he played; he's a tough, hard-working individual who never gives up. -- Jimmy Johnson, coach of the Dallas Cowboys from 1989 to 1993 and a graduate assistant at Louisiana Tech University when Peace was a player
His father, Joe Peace, Sr. (1920–1992), a native of Magnolia, Arkansas, was a successful high school football coach from 1948 to 1975 at Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish in northeast Louisiana. He used the since discarded Notre Dame Box. Peace, Jr., graduated from Sicily Island High School and played football under his father. Peace's mother, the former Mary Sue Pipes (1925–2010), a native of Jena in La Salle Parish and a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, taught at Sicily Island High School, where her husband was head coach. An active civic figure, Mrs. Peace in 2001 lost a race for Sicily Island alderman.
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