Charlie Taaffe was an American gridiron football coach who was the head football coach at The Citadel from 1987 to 1996.
18 Facts About Charlie Taaffe
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Charlie Taaffe is the winningest head coach in the school's history.
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Charlie Taaffe was the head coach of the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes and Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
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Charlie Taaffe then served two years as a Graduate Assistant at Georgia Tech and North Carolina State.
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From 1984 until 1986 Charlie Taaffe served a successful stint as an Army's offensive coordinator.
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In 1987, Charlie Taaffe was hired as head football coach at The Citadel.
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Charlie Taaffe was suspended by the school for the entire 1996 season after his second drunken-driven arrest in three years.
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Charlie Taaffe admitted to the police that he had four to six beers prior to driving.
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Charlie Taaffe was acquitted of the charges on February 6,1997 after prosecutors failed to prove that Taaffe was under the influence when he was stopped.
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Charlie Taaffe was fired from the school and was hired in May 1997 with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.
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Charlie Taaffe helped quarterback Anthony Calvillo to a 112.9 passer rating in 2000.
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Charlie Taaffe helped guide quarterback Scott McBrien to an honorable mention all-league performer and finished 12th nationally in pass efficiency.
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At Maryland Charlie Taaffe's offense earned national respect with a balanced attack that beat opponents both on the ground and through the air.
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On December 15,2006 Charlie Taaffe was hired as the head coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
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On September 8,2008 the Tiger-Cats fired Charlie Taaffe and replaced him with offensive coordinator Marcel Bellefeuille.
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Charlie Taaffe immediately went to work and the 2009 offense featured senior transfer quarterback Brett Hodges and a sophomore running-back Brynn Harvey.
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Charlie Taaffe devised a committee of running-backs for the Knights run-game, including Ronnie Weaver, Latavius Murray, and Jonathan Davis.
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On October 30,2019, Charlie Taaffe's sister posted on Facebook that he had died from cancer.