Head Coach
"The coach, Wilbur (Weeb) Ewbank, is shooting for the AFL Eastern Division title this season after keeping the Jets in the race much longer than anyone anticipated in 1963, his first year.
He's a familiar name to pro football fans. He coached the Baltimore Colts to two NFL titles (1958-59) in his nine-year regime. His nine-year NFL record was 59-52-1.
Now 56, he was a quarterback at Miami (Ohio) University. After coaching aide jobs at Miami, Brown and Great Lakes Naval, he became head coach at Washington (Missouri) University, then went to the Browns before leading the Colts."
-Dave Anderson, Pro Football Handbook 1964
"Weeb Ewbank is a disbeliever in the accepted fact that a balanced attack is necessary in each game.
'No,' says the ex-Colt pilot, 'an offense is dictated solely by the defense that is must face on each play.'
Ewbank replaced Bulldog Turner for '63 after putting in nine years as the top man in Baltimore. He served Paul Brown as tackle coach with the Browns and had been a head coach of Washington of St. Louis.
A quarterback at Miami of Ohio, he stayed on for 14 years after graduation in the role of assistant coach, leaving in '43 to work with Brown at Great Lakes Naval Station."
-Don Schiffer, Pro Football 1964
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