George Anthony Yarno (August 12, 1957 - August 8, 2016) is a professional soccer player, a ten-season guard in the National Football League with Tampa Bay, Atlanta and Houston. He also played two seasons with Denver Gold from USFL.
Yarno works as an offensive line trainer for a number of college and professional teams. After being released from the Detroit Lions after the 2012 season, Yarno received an offensive coach job with Jacksonville Jaguars in 2013.
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Initial years
Born and raised in Spokane, Washington, Yarno is one of six children; her mother Wanda died in 1962 when she was only five years old. His brother John (b) 1954) was the All-American center in Idaho, and then became a five-year starter in the NFL for the Seattle Seahawks. George attended Gonzaga Preparatory School as a freshman, then spent two years in Alaska with his father and went to East Anchorage High School. He returned to Ferris for his senior year and graduated in 1975, then played four years at Washington State University in Pullman under head coaches Jim Sweeney and Jim Walden, as the nose handled the defense.
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Professional playing career
Not elected in the 1979 NFL Draft, Yarno was signed by Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a rookie free agent in 1979 and made the team on the other side of the ball, as lineman offensive reserves. He is an offensive midfielder who started most of his career, including starting at the tackle, guard, and center.
Scoring
Despite being an offensive lineman, Yarno scored one point in his NFL career, an extra point in the closing moments of the 1983 season in Detroit on December 18, indoors at Pontiac Silverdome. As the team's emergency kicker, Yarno immediately left-footed into the match with 77 seconds to play and go down with four points. Head coach John McKay has unleashed new signing player, barefoot Dave Warnke, after two consecutive weak kicks: an additional point that failed late in the first half and an unattractive spinning field effort in the third quarter of 29 yards, when the score was tied at 13. After Yarno's successful conversion, truly celebrated by his fellow midfielders, the Detroit division champion recovered his next onside kick and ran out of the clock to win the game by three points, 23-20, and unfortunate Tampa Bay finished this year at 2 -14.
Train a career
School assistant
After his career as a player, Yarno entered the ranks of a coach as a college assistant at Washington State University; he coached the offensive line under head coach Mike Price from 1991 to 1994. He moved eight miles (13 km) east to the University of Idaho in 1995 as an offensive coordinator and line coach under first-year head coach Chris Tormey. After three seasons in Moscow, Yarno left for the University of Houston in 1998 to become assistant head coach (and offensive coach) under head coach Kim Helton. In 2000, he was the offensive coach of the line for Arizona State University for the season, Bruce Snyder last as head coach, then spent two seasons at LSU under head coach Nick Saban, again as offensive line coach. In 2003, Yarno returned to Washington State to train an offensive line under first-year head coach Bill Doba. After Doba's dismissal after the 2007 season, he became a professional level coach.
NFL Assistant
Yarno became an NFL assistant coach in 2008 as an offensive line coach assistant with Tampa Bay, his first professional team as a player. After a season in Tampa, Yarno joined the coaching staff of the Detroit Lions in 2009 as an offensive line coach. He was recommended by the offensive coordinator Scott Linehan, a former quarterback of Idaho, who Yarno recommended by Nick Saban. Following a disappointing 4-12 season from the Detroit Lions after making the playoff the previous year, Yarno was released as an assistant coach after the 2012 season. He was named offensive coach of the Jaguars on January 24, 2013. On January 20, 2015, Jacksonville Jaguars hired former Buffalo head coach Bills Doug Marrone replaces Yarno as an offensive line coach. Marrone's appointment means offensive coach George Yarno will not return to Jaguars in 2015, according to team spokesman. The Jaguars announced on May 29, 2015 that Yarno has been diagnosed with cancer (stomach) and received treatment. He is still under contract. Yarno died in Spokane at the age of 58 on August 8, 2016.
References
External links
- Jacksonville Jaguars - George Yarno - offensive line coach
- George Yarno Stats - Pro Football References
- The video of Yarno kicked PAT in 1983
- Career and player information statistics from NFL.com Ã, Â · Pro-Football-References Ã, Â · Databasefootball.com
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