Vice-President
"Having stepped aside from the coaching lines after 20 years as a head coach in pro football, Weeb Ewbank assumes his new duties as Vice-President of the New York Jets. Ewbank will continue to be an important figure in the operation of the team he helped to build into a championship unit.
In his new post, the 67-year-old graduate of Miami (Ohio) will handle the negotiations with and signing of the players and will oversee the administrative functioning of the front office. He will work in association with Executive Assistant Michael Martin.
Ewbank's 20 seasons as a head coach saw him win three World Championships and four divisional crowns and become the only man to win titles in both the NFL and AFL. As coach and general manager, he led the Jets to the 1968 Super Bowl victory and won back-to-back NFL titles with Baltimore in 1958 and 1959.
He began his illustrious coaching career as an assistant at his alma mater and spent 14 seasons there. For his service to Miami University, he was inducted into the school's Fall of Fame in 1969.
In 1943 he became an assistant to Paul Brown at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, but after the war became backfield coach at Brown University. In 1947 he moved to Washington University in St. Louis and spent two seasons as head coach before entering the pros under Brown in 1949 with the AAFC Cleveland Browns entry. He stayed there for five years and in 1954 took his first head job at Baltimore where he took a floundering organization and turned it into a successful franchise.
As the only head coach the Jets ever had until now, Ewbank did the same reorganization job in New York over his 1963-1973 tenure.
While an undergraduate at Miami, Weeb was a quarterback, captain of the baseball team, and a forward on the basketball team. He's a native or Richmond, Indiana."
-The New York Jets Official 1974 Yearbook
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