Aldo Donelli Aldo " Buff " Teo Donelli ( July 22 , 1907 – August 9 , 1994 ) was an American football and soccer player . He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame . Soccer . Club . In 1925 , Donelli played for Morgan F . C . , a western Pennsylvania soccer team . At some point , he moved to Cleveland Slavia , playing for them at least the winter of 1929 - 1930 . In January and February 1934 , he is listed with Curry Silver Tops and then Heidelberg SC from February to April 1936 . He also played for Castle Shannon in March 1938 . National team . Donelli was selected to the United States 1934 FIFA World Cup team . In a 4 - 2 qualifying victory over Mexico in Rome , Italy on May 24 , he tallied all four times , becoming the first American to score his first three international goals with the senior team in the same match ( Sacha Kljestan would become the second to achieve this feat on January 24 , 2009 ) . Three days later in the same stadium , Donelli scored the lone U . S . goal in its 7 - 1 first - round elimination loss to Italy . It would be the last one any American scored on Italian turf for another 58 years . He was inducted into U . S . National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1954 . Football . College . Donelli , who played college football at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , was a halfback and punter . He went on to coach Duquesne University , Columbia University , Boston University , and the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Rams of the National Football League . Pittsburgh . Donelli took over as Duquesne head coach in 1939 , compiling a 29 - 4 - 2 record as the Dukes finished in the top ten twice in four seasons . His tenure at his alma mater also gave him a place in the history books as the only man to serve as head coach of both a college and NFL team simultaneously . Donelli served as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers during the 1941 fall campaign on the bluff of Duquesne University . The Dukes were on their way to an undefeated season in 1941 and after the Steelers lost their first two games coach ( and later NFL Commissioner ) Bert Bell resigned , having Donelli replace him . Aldo would coach the Steelers in the morning during classes at Duquesne University and then the Dukes in the afternoon . Although his college team finished undefeated , the Steelers lost all five games under Donelli . Boston and Columbia . Donelli continued on to coach at Boston University from 1947 to 1956 with a 46 - 34 - 4 record and again placing a season in the top 25 poll . In 1957 he was named the head coach at Columbia University where he would serve until 1967 compiling a 30 - 76 - 4 record . In 1961 he coached Columbia to its only Ivy League Championship . Other accomplishments . Alpha Phi Delta - Buff was a founding member of Alpha Phi Delta , Psi chapter , the national Italian heritage fraternity , at Duquesne University on March 19 , 1929 . Donelli received his business degree from Duquesne University in 1930 and his graduate business degree in 1931 . Donelli was drafted into the Navy for a short time during the last year of World War II . He also coached in the NFL for the Cleveland Rams ( today ' s St . Louis Rams ) for a single season ( 1944 ) attaining a 4 - 6 record . In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s after semi - retiring from coaching , he worked in public relations for PGA events around Boston while keeping homes in suburban Pittsburgh and then eventually Florida . Honors . Columbia University ' s weight room is named in Donelli ' s honor .