Joe Walton, who as a player helped take the Giants to three consecutive N.F.L. championship games in the early 1960s with his outstanding pass-catching and blocking, but who found considerably less success coaching the N.F.L.’s other New York team, the Jets, for most of the 1980s, died on Sunday in Englewood, Fla. He was 85.
Robert Morris University in Moon Township, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, announced his death, but did not provide a cause. Walton was hired as the university’s first head football coach when it was known as Robert Morris College and coached the team for 20 years.