Art Shell

Coaching career


Los Angeles Raiders
Through Al Davis Shell is a member of the Sid Gillman coaching tree. The school is no longer in existence. Al Davis owner of the Raiders fired Shell after a 9-7 season in 1994 a move Davis later called "a mistake".

He holds the distinction of becoming the third-ever African American head coach (after Fritz Pollard and Wayne Fontes) in the history of professional football and the second in the sport's modern era. Arthur "Art" Shell (born November 26 1946) is an American former collegiate and professional football player in the American Football League and later in the NFL a Hall of Fame offensive tackle and a two-time former head coach of the Oakland Raiders.