Patrick Henry Boland (October 12, 1906 â July 2, 1971) was a head coach in the AAFC for one season in 1946. He was the interim coach for the Chicago Rockets. He was also a line coach at Iowa.
Boland was born on October 12, 1906, in Duluth, Minnesota. He went to college at Minnesota.
Boland was a freshman coach at Minnesota in 1932. In 1937 he became a line coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He was the coach there from 1937 to 1942.
In 1946, Boland became the line coach for the Chicago Rockets of the AAFC. He became the interim coach a few weeks later. As a coach he had a 2âÂÂ3âÂÂ1 record.
Boland later became a recruiter for the University of Iowa and the University of Miami. He died at 64 in 1971.