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TROY, N.Y. – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Director of Athletics Jim Knowlton has announced the hiring of Dick Maloney to the football staff. A 39-year coaching veteran, Maloney will serve as the defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator on the staff of head coach Ralph Isernia.

Maloney, whose career spanned the collegiate and professional levels was most recently the head coach at the University of Chicago, where he mentored the Maroons for 19 seasons before announcing his retirement in June.

"I am thrilled and honored to join Coach Isernia's coaching staff and the Rensselaer Community.,” Maloney said. “To help mentor and coach the high quality RPI student-athletes is a natural continuum from coaching at Penn, Dartmouth and Chicago."

"We couldn't be more excited to have Dick join our staff," Knowlton said. "To add someone with his experience, expertise and success is a tremendous benefit to our student-athletes and department."

He was a five-time University Athletic Association (UAA) Coach of the Year during his tenure at Chicago, and led the Maroons to four UAA titles, with the last coming in 2010. During that final championship season, Maloney guided Chicago to an 8-2 record, matching the most wins in a single season in the program's modern football era. He stands second all-time in Chicago annals, trailing only the legendary Amos Alonzo Stagg, with a career record of 94-82 for a .534 winning percentage.

Maloney coached eight All-Americans, six UAA Offensive Players of the Year, three UAA Defensive Players of the Year, seven UAA Rookies of the Year and two Aztec Bowl selections. From 1997 to 2001, he guided the Maroons to five straight winning seasons, a feat not accomplished by Chicago since 1911-15. Maloney's teams claimed a pair of NCAA Division III team statistical titles and featured three individual national statistical leaders.

At the collegiate level, Maloney has walked the sidelines at every level of football. He served as the offensive coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania from 1986-90, and was the offensive line coach at Dartmouth College from 1982-85. He also spent five seasons as the offensive line coach at Boston University from 1977-81, and was an assistant coach at Boston College in 1976. He coached football and wrestling at Maryville College in Tennessee in 1975. Maloney began his career locally, serving as the defensive line coach under Bob Ford at the University at Albany in 1974.

Prior to his appointment at Chicago, Maloney was the offensive line coach for the Ottawa Rough Riders from 1991-93. Ottawa reached the playoffs in all three of those seasons, and Maloney coached two consecutive Offensive Linemen of the Year.

He has served as a head or assistant coach for 10 conference champions, including an undefeated Penn team in 1986. He has mentored 15 All-Americans across his career, along with several players who went on to play in the NFL.

A 1974 graduate of the University of Massachusetts – Boston, Maloney earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education. He received his master's degree in education from UAlbany in 1980.