CFL Montreal Alouettes

Alouettes Name Jeff Reinebold Defensive Coordinator

Published on February 3, 2012 under Canadian Football League (CFL)
Montreal Alouettes News Release


Montreal, February 3, 2012 - The Montreal Alouettes on Friday named Jeff Reinebold as the team's defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach.

Reinebold joins the Alouettes after spending the last four seasons as the receivers coach at Southern Methodist University in Texas. With more than 25 years of coaching experience in the collegiate and professional ranks, the 54 year-old spent eight seasons in the Canadian Football League, including two years as head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1997 and 1998.

Reinebold was the secondary and special teams coach in 1994 with the CFL's Las Vegas Posse, the same year Anthony Calvillo began his professional career with the team. He also served as the B.C. Lions offensive coordinator and assistant head coach in 1996, the Edmonton Eskimos special teams and linebacker coach in 1995, and started his professional coaching career with the Lions in 1991 as a special teams coordinator, defensive line and receivers coach.

His coaching career also led him in to NFL Europe where he worked with the Rhein Fire in 1995 and again in 1999-2000 where he won World Bowl VIII in 2000 as a linebacker coach. His European stint also saw him serve as the special teams coach of the Amsterdam Admirals.

The South Bend, IN, native attended the University of Maine where he was a defensive back for the Black Bears. Reinebold began his coaching career as a wide receivers coach at Western Montana in 1981.




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