Alouettes hire former Bombers head coach Reinbold as defensive co-ordinator

MONTREAL - Jeff Reinebold is returning to the CFL.

The Montreal Alouettes have hired former the former Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach as their defensive co-ordinator.

Reinebold replaces Tim Tibesar, who left Marc Trestman's staff to take a job at Purdue University.

The 54-year-old Reinebold was working as a receivers coach at Southern Methodist University.

He had a 6-26 record as head coach in Winnipeg in 1997 and 1998. He had previously been a CFL assistant coach with the B.C. Lions, Las Vegas Posse and Edmonton Eskimos.

Reinebold began treatments on a type of skin cancer in February, 2010.