Weeb Ewbank
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Born: | Richmond, Indiana, U.S. | May 6, 1907||||||
Died: | November 17, 1998 Oxford, Ohio, U.S. | (aged 91)||||||
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College: | Miami (OH) | ||||||
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Wilbur Charles "Weeb" Ewbank (May 6, 1907 – November 17, 1998) was an American professional
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 1950, winning the championship that year.
Ewbank left the Browns after the
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 1978, and died twenty years later in Oxford on November 17, 1998, the 30th anniversary of the "Heidi Game".
Early years
Born in
After graduating from high school in 1924, Ewbank attended
Coaching career
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.[4][12] 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.[12] He also taught physical education at Miami.[12] 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.[4][13] Under his tutelage, the school's Green Devils football team had a win–loss record of 71–21 (.772) in thirteen seasons.[14] 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.[5][12]
Ewbank joined the U.S. Navy in 1943 as American involvement in World War II intensified.[4] 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.[4][15] Brown had become a successful high school coach in Ohio before being named head football coach at Ohio State University in 1941.[16] At Great Lakes, Ewbank was an assistant to Brown on the football team and coached the basketball team.[13]
Following his discharge from the Navy at the end of the war in 1945, Ewbank became the backfield coach under
Ewbank's next stop was as head football coach at Washington University in St. Louis for the 1947 and 1948 seasons.[17] Ewbank guided the Bears to a 14–4 record in two seasons, (5–3 in 1947, 9–1 in 1948).[19]
Cleveland Browns
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
Led by quarterback
Baltimore Colts
Ewbank got his first professional head coaching job in early 1954 for the NFL's
The Colts struggled in Ewbank's first years as head coach, posting records of 3–9 in 1954 and 5–6–1 in 1955.[30][31] In 1956, however, the team signed quarterback Johnny Unitas after he was cut by the Pittsburgh Steelers.[5] 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.[5][32]
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.[32] 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".[32] 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.[32] The Colts finished 1956 with a 5–7 record.[33]
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.[34] 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.[35] Led by Unitas, Berry and Ameche, the team won the game 23–17 in sudden-death overtime.[36] 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.[37] Ewbank was named coach of the year by the Associated Press and United Press International after the season.[6]
Baltimore finished with a 9–3 record for the second year in a row in 1959 and repeated as NFL champions.[38] 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.[1][2][3][39] He was succeeded by former player Don Shula, a 33-year-old assistant coach with the Lions.[39]
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.[32][40] 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.[40] Unitas, he said, was obtained "with a seventy-five-cent phone call" and Ameche wasn't liked or wanted.[40] 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.[41] 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.[41] 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." [42]
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."[43]
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 Jets
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.[44] Shortly thereafter, the team changed its name to the New York Jets and hired Ewbank in April as its head coach and general manager.[45][46] 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.[45] 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."[45]
While the Jets won their first three games with Ewbank as coach, his first several years were unsuccessful.[45] The team, meanwhile, had to deal with numerous logistical issues stemming from its second-tier status among New York's sports teams.[45] 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.[45] 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.[45] The Jets posted 5–8–1 records for three consecutive seasons (1963–1965).[47][48][49]
Despite limited on-field success in Ewbank's first years, the Jets began to put the pieces of a winning team in place.
Namath quickly became a star for the Jets. The team improved to 6–6–2 in
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
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.[60] 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.[60] Snell had 121 yards on 30 carries.[60] 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.[61] New York intercepted four Baltimore passes, three thrown by Earl Morrall and one by Unitas, who entered the game in the second half.[62] The Jets won the game 16–7, aided by Ewbank's familiarity with many of the Colts' players and strategies.[60]
The Jets had a 10–4 record in
Later life and honors
Ewbank moved back to Oxford in retirement and wrote a book in 1977 called Football Greats.[73] 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.[74] With the expansion of the NFL, he said, talent had become diluted and fielding a good team was difficult.[74] Coaches, meanwhile, customarily took the blame for a team's failures, and the sport had become too violent.[74]
Ewbank's coaching style was laid-back but efficient, combining his mild personality with an orderliness inherited from Paul Brown.[26][75] "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."[26] He favored well-practiced execution of a limited number of plays over complicated offensive and defensive systems.[75] 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.[75]
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.[6] His regular-season career record in the NFL and AFL was 130–129–7, and his playoff record was 4–1.[76] Ewbank was selected as the head coach on the AFL All-Time Team in 1970.[77] 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.[6][12][78] He also won the Walter Camp Distinguished American Award in 1987 and was inducted into the Jets' Ring of Honor in 2010.[79][80]
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.[5] He broke his leg and had two hip replacements in the 1990s.[5] He also had myasthenia in his right eye.[5] Ewbank died at 91 on November 17, 1998, the 30th anniversary of the "Heidi Game", after suffering from heart problems.[26][81] He and his wife Lucy had three daughters, Luanne, Nancy and Jan.[26] His daughter Nancy married Charley Winner.[82]
Head coaching record
College football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Washington University Bears (Independent) (1947–1948) | |||||||||
1947 | Washington University | 5–3 | |||||||
1948 | Washington University | 9–1 | |||||||
Washington University: | 14–4 | ||||||||
Total: | 14–4 |
AFL/NFL
Team | Year | Regular Season | Postseason | |||||||
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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 |
Coaching tree
Assistants under Weeb Ewbank who became NCAA or NFL head coaches:
- Irwin Uteritz: Washington University Bears (1949–1952)
- John Bridgers: Baylor Bears (1959–1968)
- Don Shula: Baltimore Colts (1963–1969), Miami Dolphins (1970–1995)
- Frank Lauterbur: Toledo Rockets (1963–1970), Iowa Hawkeyes (1971–1973)
- Otterbein College(1985–1987)
- Clive Rush: New England Patriots (1969–1970), Merchant Marine Academy (1976)
- Don McCafferty: Baltimore Colts (1970–1972), Detroit Lions (1973)
- John Sandusky: Baltimore Colts (1972)
- Chuck Knox: Los Angeles Rams (1973–1977), (1992–1994), Buffalo Bills (1978–1982), Seattle Seahawks (1983–1991)
- Charley Winner: St. Louis Cardinals (1966–1970) New York Jets (1974–1975)
- Joe Thomas Baltimore Colts (1974)
- Walt Michaels: New York Jets (1977–1982), New Jersey Generals (1983–1985)
- Buddy Ryan: Philadelphia Eagles (1986–1990), Arizona Cardinals (1994–1995)
See also
- American Football League players, coaches, and contributors
- List of National Football League head coaches with 50 wins
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External links
- Weeb Ewbank at the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Weeb Ewbank at Find a Grave
- Cradle of Coaches Archive: A Legacy of Excellence—Weeb Ewbank, Miami University Libraries