Weeb Ewbank

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox NFL biography Wilbur Charles "Weeb" Ewbank (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; May 6, 1907 – November 17, 1998) was an American professional football coach. He led the Baltimore Colts to consecutive NFL championships in 1958 and 1959 and the New York Jets to victory in Super Bowl III in January 1969. He is the only coach to win a championship in both the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL).

Raised in Indiana, Ewbank attended Miami University in Ohio, where he was a multi-sport star who led his baseball, basketball, and football teams to state championships. He immediately began a coaching career after graduating, working at Ohio high schools between 1928 and 1943, when he entered the U.S. Navy during World War II. While in the military, Ewbank was an assistant to Paul Brown on a service football team at Naval Station Great Lakes outside of Chicago. Ewbank was discharged in 1945 and coached college sports for three years before reuniting with Brown as an assistant with the Cleveland Browns, a professional team in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). The Browns won all four AAFC championships. They joined the NFL with the league's merger in Template:Nfly, winning the championship that year.

Ewbank left the Browns after the 1953 season to become head coach of the Colts, a young NFL team that had struggled in its first season. In 1956, Ewbank brought in quarterback Johnny Unitas, who quickly became a star and helped lead a potent offense that included wide receiver Raymond Berry and fullback Alan Ameche to an NFL championship in 1958. The Colts repeated as champions in 1959, but the team's performance slipped over the next three seasons and Ewbank was fired three weeks after their final game of the 1962 season.<ref name=ewtores>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=freshu>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=cgshftr>Template:Cite news</ref> He was soon picked up by the Jets, a team in the still new AFL. While his first few years were unsuccessful, Ewbank helped build the Jets into a contender after signing Alabama quarterback Joe Namath in 1965. The Jets won the AFL championship in 1968, and then went on to win Super Bowl III in one of the biggest upsets in NFL history.

Ewbank, who was known as a mild-mannered coach who favored simple but well-executed strategies, retired after the 1973 season and settled in Oxford, Ohio. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Template:Nfly, and died twenty years later in Oxford on November 17, 1998, the 30th anniversary of the "Heidi Game".

Early life and collegeEdit

Born in Richmond, Indiana, Ewbank's father was a grocer who owned two stores in the small city.<ref name="MU library bio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="NYT article on 75th anniversary">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Indiana HOF page">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He attended Morton High School and played quarterback on the football team, was an outfielder in baseball, and was a member of the basketball team.<ref name="MU library bio" /> He captained the football and basketball teams when he was a senior.<ref name="Indiana HOF page" /><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> As a teenager, Ewbank and his father drove to Dayton, Ohio, to see early football star Jim Thorpe and the Canton Bulldogs play.<ref name="NYT article on 75th anniversary" /> One of his younger brothers could not pronounce "Wilbur" correctly and called him "Weeb", the nickname he was known by for the rest of his life.<ref name="MU library bio" />

After graduating from high school in 1924, Ewbank attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.<ref name="MU library bio" /> He played on the school's football team as a quarterback under head coach Chester Pittser.<ref name="MU library bio" />Template:Sfn He was also the center fielder on the baseball team and a forward on the basketball team.<ref name="Ewbank profile in PD, 1927">Template:Cite news</ref> While Ewbank was small in stature – he was only Template:Convert and weighed Template:Convert – he was one of Miami's best athletes.<ref name="Ewbank profile in PD, 1927" /> He shared quarterback duties with Eddie Wohlwender on a squad that finished with an 8–1 win–loss record and won the Ohio Athletic Conference championship in 1927, his senior year.<ref name="Ewbank profile in PD, 1927" /><ref name="CFBDW Miami results">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Miami's baseball team also won the Ohio Conference when he was a sophomore and took the Buckeye Athletic Association title when he was a senior.<ref name="Ewbank profile in PD, 1927" /> The basketball team won a state title when he was a junior.<ref name="Ewbank profile in PD, 1927" /> Ewbank was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity while at Miami.<ref name="Purdue famous Phis">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Coaching careerEdit

Shortly after graduating from Miami in 1928, Ewbank took his first coaching job at Van Wert High School in Van Wert, Ohio, overseeing the football, basketball, and baseball teams.<ref name="MU library bio" /><ref name="Talawanda HOF page">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He remained there until 1930, when he moved back to Oxford and took a position coaching football and basketball at McGuffey High School, a private institution run by Miami University.<ref name="Talawanda HOF page" /> He also taught physical education at Miami.<ref name="Talawanda HOF page" /> Ewbank took a break from coaching in 1932 to pursue a master's degree at Columbia University in New York City and filled in as Miami's basketball coach in 1939 after the previous coach left for another job, but otherwise held his coaching positions at McGuffey until 1943.<ref name="MU library bio" />Template:Sfn Under his tutelage, the school's Green Devils football team had a win–loss record of Template:Winpct in thirteen seasons.Template:Sfn This included a streak of three undefeated seasons between 1936 and 1939 and one season – 1936 – where the team did not allow any scoring by opponents.<ref name="NYT article on 75th anniversary" /><ref name="Talawanda HOF page" />

Ewbank joined the U.S. Navy in 1943 as American involvement in World War II intensified.<ref name="MU library bio" /> He was assigned for training to Naval Station Great Lakes north of Chicago, where Paul Brown, a former classmate who succeeded him as Miami's starting quarterback, was coaching the base football team.<ref name="MU library bio" />Template:Sfn Brown had become a successful high school coach in Ohio before being named head football coach at Ohio State University in 1941.Template:Sfn At Great Lakes, Ewbank was an assistant to Brown on the football team and coached the basketball team.Template:Sfn

Following his discharge from the Navy at the end of the war in 1945, Ewbank became the backfield coach under Charles "Rip" Engle at Brown University.<ref name="MU library bio" /><ref name="MU special collections article">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also was head coach of the basketball team in the 1946–47 season, his only one at Brown.<ref name="MU special collections article" /><ref name="Ewbank named Brown basketball coach">Template:Cite news</ref>

Ewbank's next stop was as head football coach at Washington University in St. Louis for the 1947 and 1948 seasons.<ref name="MU special collections article" /> Ewbank guided the Bears to a 14–4 record in two seasons, (5–3 in 1947, 9–1 in 1948).Template:Sfn

Cleveland BrownsEdit

Despite his success in St. Louis, Ewbank quit his job when he was given the chance to serve as an assistant under Paul Brown, who by 1949 was coaching the Cleveland Browns, a professional team in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC).<ref name="Ewbank hired by Browns">Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Sfn Ewbank was brought in to oversee the Browns' linemen after backfield coach John Brickels quit to take a job at Miami University and tackles coach Bill Edwards left to become the head coach at Vanderbilt University.<ref name="Ewbank hired by Browns" /> Ewbank expected to coach quarterbacks, having played the position in college, but Brown insisted that he oversee the tackles.Template:Sfn "He knew I'd have to work very hard at this job and bring a fresh approach", Ewbank said many years later.Template:Sfn

Led by quarterback Otto Graham, fullback Marion Motley, and ends Dante Lavelli and Mac Speedie, the Browns won the AAFC championship in 1949, their fourth straight title.Template:Sfn The AAFC folded after the season, and the Browns were absorbed by the more established National Football League (NFL).Template:Sfn The team finished the 1950 season with a 10–2 record and won the NFL championship by beating the Los Angeles Rams.<ref name="1950 Browns stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Browns reached the NFL championship each year between 1951 and 1953, but lost once to the Rams and twice to the Detroit Lions.<ref name="AP obit">Template:Cite news</ref>

Baltimore ColtsEdit

Ewbank got his first professional head coaching job in early 1954 for the NFL's Baltimore Colts, a franchise that had started play the previous year.<ref name="Colts hire Ewbank">Template:Cite news</ref> While it was a step up for Ewbank, Brown encouraged him not to take the job and told him he would not be successful.Template:Sfn After Ewbank took the job, Brown accused him of passing information about the Browns' draft targets to the Colts.Template:Sfn Brown had insisted that he stay with the Browns through the 1954 draft, and NFL commissioner Bert Bell agreed.Template:Sfn During the draft, Ewbank allegedly sent the names of players Brown liked to the Colts through Baltimore sportswriter John Steadman, including end Raymond Berry, who went on to have a long and successful career.Template:Sfn

The Colts struggled in Ewbank's first years as head coach, posting records of 3–9 in 1954 and 5–6–1 in 1955.<ref name="1954 Colts stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="1955 Colts stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1956, however, the team signed quarterback Johnny Unitas after he was cut by the Pittsburgh Steelers.<ref name="NYT article on 75th anniversary" /> Ewbank brought in Otto Graham to tutor Unitas, who complemented an improving team that included Berry, fullback Alan Ameche, halfback Lenny Moore and defensive back Don Shula.<ref name="NYT article on 75th anniversary" /><ref name="Profile with Colts">Template:Cite news</ref>

The Colts began the 1956 season with a 3–3 record, and calls for Ewbank's firing intensified – just as they had the previous year.<ref name="Profile with Colts" /> Team owner Carroll Rosenbloom supported him, however, saying that while he had considered a coaching change in the past, Ewbank could stay with the Colts "forever – or until he fouls up".<ref name="Profile with Colts" /> When he came to Baltimore, Ewbank had promised to create a system like Paul Brown's in Cleveland, but said he would need time to turn the team into a winner.<ref name="Profile with Colts" /> The Colts finished 1956 with a 5–7 record.<ref name="1956 Colts stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The team made a turnaround the following year, posting a 7–5 record, but still finished third in the NFL's Western Division behind the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions.<ref name="1957 NFL standings">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The team improved further in 1958, winning the Western Division with a 9–3 record and earning a spot in the NFL championship game against the New York Giants.<ref name="1958 Colts stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Led by Unitas, Berry and Ameche, the team won the game 23–17 in sudden-death overtime.Template:Sfn Often referred to as "The Greatest Game Ever Played", the championship was watched by a large national audience on television and helped make professional football one of the most viewed sports in the U.S.Template:Sfn Ewbank was named coach of the year by the Associated Press and United Press International after the season.<ref name="Indiana HOF page" />

Baltimore finished with a 9–3 record for the second year in a row in 1959 and repeated as NFL champions.<ref name="1959 Colts stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The team's performance fell off in subsequent years, however, and after posting a 7–7 record in 1962, Rosenbloom fired Ewbank three weeks later.<ref name=ewtores/><ref name=freshu/><ref name=cgshftr/><ref name="Ewbank fired by Colts">Template:Cite news</ref> He was succeeded by former player Don Shula, a 33-year-old assistant coach with the Lions.<ref name="Ewbank fired by Colts" />

His legacy as a coach is mixed. Some remember Ewbank as a humble coach who had a good sense of humor and tried to stay out of the spotlight.<ref name="Profile with Colts" />Template:Sfn He could also be harsh with his players, however. Before the 1958 championship game, he gave a speech telling his stars they needed to improve and had barely made the team.Template:Sfn Unitas, he said, was obtained "with a seventy-five-cent phone call" and Ameche wasn't liked or wanted.Template:Sfn Ewbank was not universally liked by his players. Second-string running back Jack Call later said the team won "in spite of, not because of" Ewbank.Template:Sfn Other players saw him as overly easygoing, saying that while he was able to build teams up, he became too relaxed once he reached the top.Template:Sfn Hall of Famer Raymond Berry stated in his book All the Moves I Had, "What it amounts to is that Ewbank knew exactly what he wanted his team to do and how to get them to do it well... Being under Weeb's system was the number one reason why Unitas and I had the careers we had." <ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In his autobiography, which he partially dedicated to Weeb Ewbank, Hall of Famer Art Donovan had this to say about his former coach: "When Weeb and Joe Thomas came in and introduced the keying defense—one that depended upon quickness and a players's ability to read offenses—man, I was in hog heaven. Weeb Ewbank made Arthur J. Donovan, Jr., a Hall of Fame football player. I loved him for that; I always will love him for that. I can honestly say that Weeb Ewbank became and remains one of the most important, cherished people in my life. With that out of the way, I can also honestly say that Weeb was a screwball who held insane grudges, concentrated too much on what I considered the unimportant aspects of the game, thought he was smarter than God, and deep down inside was one mean sonofabitch."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Ewbank left as the longest tenured head coach in the history of the Colts (112), with Ted Marchibroda passing him three decades later.

New York JetsEdit

A five-man syndicate led by Sonny Werblin bought the New York Titans franchise of the American Football League (AFL), an NFL competitor, as part of bankruptcy proceedings in 1963.<ref name="NYJ 1963 review">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Shortly thereafter, the team changed its name to the New York Jets and hired Ewbank in April as its head coach and general manager.Template:Sfn<ref name=jnehc>Template:Cite news</ref> Ewbank took over a team that had not had a winning record in its first three years of existence and hired a coaching staff that included Chuck Knox, Walt Michaels, and Clive Rush, all future head coaches.Template:Sfn When he was hired, Ewbank said he had a five-year plan to succeed in Baltimore, and "I don't see why we can't build a winner here in five years."Template:Sfn

While the Jets won their first three games with Ewbank as coach, his first several years were unsuccessful.Template:Sfn The team, meanwhile, had to deal with numerous logistical issues stemming from its second-tier status among New York's sports teams.Template:Sfn The Jets switched stadiums from the Polo Grounds in Manhattan after the 1963 season to the new Shea Stadium in Queens, but shared it with baseball's New York Mets.Template:Sfn Concerned about possible damage to the stadium's natural turf, the Mets would not allow the Jets to practice at Shea, forcing the team to hold practices at the Rikers Island jail complex.Template:Sfn The Jets posted 5–8–1 records for three consecutive seasons (1963–1965).<ref name="1963 Jets stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="1964 Jets stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="1965 Jets stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Despite limited on-field success in Ewbank's first years, the Jets began to put the pieces of a winning team in place.Template:Sfn In 1964, they outbid cross-town NFL rival New York Giants for Matt Snell, a top running back prospect out of Ohio State.Template:Sfn Linebacker Larry Grantham became a consistent All-Pro selection and safety Dainard Paulson had 12 interceptions in 1964, which remains a team record.Template:Sfn An even bigger coup came in 1965, when the Jets signed Joe Namath, a star quarterback at Alabama under coach Bear Bryant.Template:Sfn The St. Louis Cardinals selected Namath as the twelfth overall pick of the NFL draft, but Namath later said he chose the Jets in part because he got along with Ewbank and was impressed by how he had developed Unitas while with the Colts.Template:Sfn

Namath quickly became a star for the Jets. The team improved to 6–6–2 in 1966 and 8–5–1 in 1967, when Namath became the first to throw for more than 4,000 yards in a single season.<ref name="1966 Jets stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="1967 Jets stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Sfn By 1968, Ewbank's team was becoming one of the top teams in the AFL. All of its main starters returned from the year before, and the Jets brought in All-Pro guard Bob Talamini from the Houston Oilers.Template:Sfn The Jets started with a 3–2 record, but won eight of nine to finish the regular season 11–3 and win the AFL East Division by four games.Template:Sfn One of the Jets' losses in 1968 was on the road in mid-November against the Oakland Raiders that later came to be known as the Heidi Game.Template:Sfn After Jim Turner kicked a field goal for the Jets that gave them a 32–29 lead with just over a minute left to play, NBC cut away from the game to a scheduled broadcast of the children's movie Heidi.Template:Sfn The Raiders went on to win the game by scoring two touchdowns in the final 42 seconds.Template:Sfn Ewbank's wife Lucy called the locker room to congratulate him on the win, only to learn the team had lost.Template:Sfn

The Jets' first-place finish in their division in 1968 set up a rematch with the Raiders – the defending AFL champions and winners of the AFL West – for the league championship.Template:Sfn Namath threw three touchdowns as the Jets won 27–23, putting them through to the third World Championship game, a matchup between the winner of the AFL and NFL now known as Super Bowl III.Template:Sfn The Jets were 19-point underdogs to the Colts, who had continued to succeed after Ewbank's departure with Don Shula as head coach and the services of Unitas as quarterback, although the 1968 season saw Earl Morrall play as the starter due to a sore elbow suffered by Unitas, and Morrall won the league MVP that year.Template:Sfn Nevertheless, Namath publicly guaranteed a Jets win before the game, which rankled Ewbank.Template:Sfn Ewbank liked that the Colts were favored, thinking it would make them complacent, and did not want to agitate them by boasting about the Jets' chances.Template:Sfn

Ewbank and the Jets played an unconventional game against the Colts, opting for an uncharacteristically conservative strategy in part because star wideout Don Maynard was nursing a hamstring injury.Template:Sfn Also on film, the Jets noticed the Colts while talented on defense, were very predictable. They did not shift out of a defense once it was called from the sideline. So Namath called most of the plays at the line of scrimmage after viewing the Colts' defense instead of calling the offensive plays in the huddle. The tactic worked against the Colts, and the Jets built a 16–0 lead going into the game's fourth quarter by relying on Snell's running and Namath's ability to complete short passes against a steady Colts' blitz.Template:Sfn Snell had 121 yards on 30 carries.Template:Sfn The Jets' defense, meanwhile, held back a Colts offense that scored 460 points throughout the team's 15–1 regular- and post-season record up to that point.Template:Sfn New York intercepted four Baltimore passes, three thrown by Earl Morrall and one by Unitas, who entered the game in the second half.Template:Sfn The Jets won the game 16–7, aided by Ewbank's familiarity with many of the Colts' players and strategies.Template:Sfn

The Jets had a 10–4 record in 1969, but lost a divisional playoff to the Kansas City Chiefs.<ref name="1969 Jets stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ewbank was named the AFL's coach of the year after the season, but the team did not post a winning record in any of the following four years.<ref name="Indiana HOF page" /><ref name="1970 Jets stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="1971 Jets stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="1972 Jets stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="1973 Jets stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In December 1972, Ewbank announced that he would retire as head coach after the 1973 season, saying he wanted to spend more time with his wife.<ref name="Ewbank to retire">Template:Cite news</ref> He continued as general manager, however, and was named the team vice president.<ref name="Ewbank to retire" /> Charley Winner, the former coach of the St. Louis Cardinals and the husband of Ewbank's daughter Nancy, was appointed as his replacement in early 1973.<ref name="Winner takes over Jets">Template:Cite news</ref> The 1973 Jets season is the subject of the book The Last Season of Weeb Ewbank by Paul Zimmerman.<ref name="Zimmerman book">Template:Cite book</ref> After the team lost seven of its first eight games in 1974, Ewbank resigned as vice president and general manager.<ref name="Ewbank resigns as GM">Template:Cite news</ref> He agreed to coach quarterbacks at Columbia University in 1975.<ref name="Ewbank with Columbia">Template:Cite news</ref>

Later life and honorsEdit

Ewbank moved back to Oxford in retirement and wrote a book in 1977 called Football Greats.<ref name="Ewbank releasing book">Template:Cite news</ref> He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1978, but said later that year that he was glad to be out of coaching.<ref name="Ewbank happy out of coaching">Template:Cite news</ref> With the expansion of the NFL, he said, talent had become diluted and fielding a good team was difficult.<ref name="Ewbank happy out of coaching" /> Coaches, meanwhile, customarily took the blame for a team's failures, and the sport had become too violent.<ref name="Ewbank happy out of coaching" />

Ewbank's coaching style was laid-back but efficient, combining his mild personality with an orderliness inherited from Paul Brown.<ref name="AP obit" /><ref name="ESPN bio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> "Weeb combined a low-key style with a flair for the most dramatic of accomplishments", former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue said in 1998. "He led two of the legendary teams during the era of pro football's greatest growth. But he preferred to stay in the background and let the players take the credit."<ref name="AP obit" /> He favored well-practiced execution of a limited number of plays over complicated offensive and defensive systems.<ref name="ESPN bio" /> Paul Brown "had the exact same approach: Don't do too much, but what you do, execute it flawlessly", Raymond Berry said in 2013, adding that the Colts' 1958 championship team had only six passing plays.<ref name="ESPN bio" />

Ewbank is the only man to coach two professional football teams to championships, and the only man to win the NFL championship, the AFL championship and a Super Bowl.<ref name="Indiana HOF page" /> His regular-season career record in the NFL and AFL was 130–129–7, and his playoff record was 4–1.<ref name="Ewbank coaching stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ewbank was selected as the head coach on the AFL All-Time Team in 1970.<ref name="AFL All-Time Team">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In addition to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he was inducted into the Miami University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1969, the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 1974 and the Talawanda School District Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999.<ref name="Indiana HOF page" /><ref name="Talawanda HOF page" /><ref name="MU HOF page">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also won the Walter Camp Distinguished American Award in 1987 and was inducted into the Jets' Ring of Honor in 2010.Template:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Ewbank suffered a dislocated hip in the aftermath of the Jets' 1968 AFL championship game win, and had other health issues in his later years.<ref name="NYT article on 75th anniversary" /> He broke his leg and had two hip replacements in the 1990s.<ref name="NYT article on 75th anniversary" /> He also had myasthenia in his right eye.<ref name="NYT article on 75th anniversary" /> Ewbank died at 91 on November 17, 1998, the 30th anniversary of the "Heidi Game", after suffering from heart problems.<ref name="AP obit" /><ref name="Wallace">Template:Cite news</ref> He and his wife Lucy had three daughters, Luanne, Nancy and Jan.<ref name="AP obit" /> His daughter Nancy married Charley Winner.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Head coaching recordEdit

College footballEdit

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AFL/NFLEdit

Team	Year	Regular Season					Postseason
Team	Year	Won	Lost	Ties	Win %	Finish	Won	Lost	Win %	Result
BAL	1954	3	9	0	.250	6th NFL Western	–	–	–	–
BAL	1955	5	6	1	.455	4th NFL Western	–	–	–	–
BAL	1956	5	7	0	.417	4th NFL Western	–	–	–	–
BAL	1957	7	5	0	.583	3rd NFL Western	–	–	–	–
BAL	1958	9	3	0	.750	1st NFL Western	1	0	1.000	Won NFL Championship over New York Giants
BAL	1959	9	3	0	.750	1st NFL Western	1	0	1.000	Won NFL Championship over New York Giants
BAL	1960	6	6	0	.500	4th NFL Western	–	–	–	–
BAL	1961	8	6	0	.571	T–3rd NFL Western	–	–	–	–
BAL	1962	7	7	0	.500	4th NFL Western	–	–	–	–
BAL Total		59	52	1	.532		2	0	1.000
NYJ	1963	5	8	1	.385	4th AFL East	–	–	–	–
NYJ	1964	5	8	1	.385	3rd AFL East	–	–	–	–
NYJ	1965	5	8	1	.385	2nd AFL East	–	–	–	–
NYJ	1966	6	6	2	.500	3rd AFL East	–	–	–	–
NYJ	1967	8	5	1	.615	2nd AFL East	–	–	–	–
NYJ	1968	11	3	0	.786	1st AFL East	2	0	1.000	Super Bowl III champions
NYJ	1969	10	4	0	.714	1st AFL East	0	1	.000	Lost to Kansas City Chiefs in Interdivisional Playoffs
NYJ	1970	4	10	0	.286	3rd AFC East	–	–	–	–
NYJ	1971	6	8	0	.429	3rd AFC East	–	–	–	–
NYJ	1972	7	7	0	.500	2nd AFC East	–	–	–	–
NYJ	1973	4	10	0	.286	4th AFC East	–	–	–	–
NYJ Total		71	77	6	.480		2	1	.667
Total		130	129	7	.502		4	1	.800
Source: Pro Football Reference