Coaching Geneva College Banks was the 24th head coach at Geneva for two seasons, from 1967 until 1968. His one victory came in the last game of the 1967 season against Bridgewater College by a score of 30 to 13. Ohio Northern Prior to taking the position at Geneva, he was the head track coach and assistant football coach at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio from 1960 until 1967. where he completed a "turnaround season" in 1962. After coaching at Geneva and a brief stint at a high school, he would return to Ohio Northern in 1971 for the remainder of his career, where he retired in 2002 as an admissions counselor. He has been credited with recruiting more students than any other person to Ohio Northern. While at Ohio Northern, Banks would regularly hold training sessions for high school athletic administrators on how to run and promote track and field meets as well as how to coach individual events. Ohio Northern honored his contribution to the university by naming their home track meet the "Joe Banks Invitational." Military service Banks served in the United States military during World War II as a Sergeant with the Third Army's 965th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance company in the Rhineland (Battle of the Bulge) and the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre in the Philippines. Personal life Banks earned a Bachelor of Science in education and later a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Northern University. He later completed a Master of Education from Kent State University. He graduated from high school at New Philadelphia in 1937 where he was coached at track & field by Woody Hayes. Dan Frasier Daniel M. Frasier was named NAIA District 18 Coach of the Year in 1971. Frasier engineered a turnaround of the program, when the football team went to what was considered a "laughing stock of the district" to an 8-0 start in 1971 (some records show a 7-0 start and losing the last two games). Before being head football coach at Geneva, he was assistant football coach at Geneva under Donald Lederick while simultaneously acting as the head baseball coach. He also played minor league baseball for the Houston Astros farm team. Upon retirement from college coaching, he entered the private sector and took a career in banking. Notes References Geneva Pennsylvania sports-related lists