Weeb Ewbank, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Weeb Ewbank

American football player, coach, and executive, basketball player and coach

Date of Birth: 06-May-1907

Place of Birth: Richmond, Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 17-Nov-1998

Profession: basketball coach, baseball player, American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


Show Famous Birthdays Today, United States

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Weeb Ewbank

  • Wilbur Charles "Weeb" Ewbank (May 6, 1907 – November 17, 1998) was an American professional football coach.
  • He led the Baltimore Colts to NFL championships in 1958 and 1959 and the New York Jets to victory in Super Bowl III in 1969.
  • He is the only coach to win a championship in both the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL). Ewbank grew up in Indiana and 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 leagues merger in 1950, winning the championship that year. Ewbank left the Browns in 1954 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 and Ewbank was fired in 1963.
  • He was soon picked up by the Jets, another struggling team in the AFL.
  • While his first few years were unsuccessful, Ewbank helped build the Jets into a contender after signing quarterback Joe Namath in 1965.
  • The Jets won the AFL championship in 1968 and went on to win Super Bowl III. 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.
  • He died in Oxford on November 17, 1998, the 30th anniversary of the "Heidi Game".

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also