Born October 12, 1910, New York, N.Y. Died February 22, 1991.

A product of New York City's "Hell's Kitchen", Joe Yancey has a coaching career that spanned a half century and, as co-founder of the New York Pioneer Club, tutored many of the sport's great athletes, including Olympic sprint champion Andy Stanfield, also a Hall of Fame member.

He attended Virginia State College before graduated from New York University in 1935. Yancey was the Pioneer Club's volunteer coach since 1936. During that span, he coached numerous indoor and outdoor national champions, including 18 Olympians who competed on five different Olympic teams. Besides Stanfield, other Olympic gold medalists included Lou Jones, Herb McKenley, George Rhoden, Arthur Wint and Lloyd LaBeach. In 1948, 1952 and 1956, Yancey coached the Jamaican Olympic team. A member of the Black Athletes Hall of Fame, he was the recipient of the Bob Giegengack (also a Hall of Fame member) Award in 1983 for outstanding service to track and field. When not coaching, he worked for the Internal Revenue Service.