Joe Doyle came to Williams College in 1985 to join Head Coach Bob Odell's staff and later worked with Head Coaches Dick Farley, Mike Whalen, Aaron Kelton and now Mark Raymond. The Worcester, Massachusetts, native currently serves as Operations Volunteer.

Doyle has coached linebackers, defensive line, offensive line, running backs and special teams for the Ephs. He was a three-year letterman in football and lacrosse at UMass Amherst, playing on the 1964 Yankee Conference Championship football team that played in the Tangerine Bowl.

Doyle retired in 2004 from the Adams (Mass.) Memorial Middle School, where he served as Principal. For 17 years, Doyle was the Head Football Coach at Hoosac Valley High School, where he led the Hurricanes to two Western Massachusetts Super Bowl Titles and seven Class A Conference Championships.

During the spring of 1995, Doyle was inducted into the Massachusetts Football Coaches Hall of Fame. In 2022, Joe Doyle was named to the USA Lacrosse Massachusetts Hall of Fame. Doyle played lacrosse at UMass in 1963 and 1964 and was an original and longtime Western Massachusetts lacrosse official.

Doyle and his wife Anne live in Adams, Massachusetts, where they raised their seven children. Their son, Dan, lettered in football for the Ephs and is a 2006 graduate of Williams.