1975 New York Jets Coaches Profiles

KEN SHIPP (Offensive Coordinator and Receivers Coach)
"Shipp handles coaching duties with quarterbacks and receivers and serves as Charley Winner's offensive coordinator. He worked very closely last year with Joe Namath and receivers Rich Caster, Jerome Barkum and David Knight installing his passing attack.
Ken has coached in the NFL for seven years. He spent 1971 and 1972 working as offensive coach for the New Orleans, tutoring Archie Manning. He previously had been hired to his first NFL job under Charley Winner at St. Louis in 1968, and remained with the Cardinals through 1970.
Shipp has an extensive college coaching record dating back to 1951. He started at Middle Tennessee State and spent two years there. He moved to Trinity University (1953-57), Florida State (1958), Tulsa (1961-62), South Carolina (1963) and Miami (Florida) from 1964-67. He spent two years with the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL (1959-60).
Ken was born in Old Hickory, Tennessee."

-The New York Jets Official 1975 Yearbook


DICK VORIS (Defensive Coordinator and Defensive Line Coach)
"Voris is in his second year as Charley Winner's defensive coordinator. He has coached in the NFL for 16 seasons in addition to a six-year tenure in the colleges.
Dick coached with the L.A. Rams in 1953 and 1954 before going to West Point where he served as Earl Blaik's chief aide from 1955 through 1957. He then assumed the head coaching job at Virginia from 1958-1960.
Voris was Player Personnel Director under Vince Lombardi at Green Bay in 1961-62 and then became defensive coordinator at San Francisco (1963-67). He went to the Cardinals under Winner (1968-71) prior to joining Detroit (1972), and spent 1973 as head defensive coach at Baltimore.
Dick graduated from San Jose State."

-The New York Jets Official 1975 Yearbook


BOB FRY (Offensive Line Coach)
"Fry handles the offensive line work. He has a record of 22 consecutive seasons in the NFL either as a player, administrator or coach. He headed up the Pittsburgh Steelers' offensive line for five years prior to joining the Jets and shared responsibility for their powerful ground game which set a club record in 1972.
Bob was a starting offensive tackle for the Rams from 1953-59 with time out for a two-year Army hitch. He was an original member of the Dallas Cowboys from 1960 through 1964.
He joined the Falcons as a scout in 1965 and was assistant player personnel director and offensive line coach at Atlanta from 1967-68. He joined the Steelers with Chuck Noll in 1969.
Fry was a star tackle under Bear Bryant at Kentucky in the early '50s."

-The New York Jets Official 1975 Yearbook


JIM SPAVITAL (Offensive Backfield Coach)
"Spavital joins the Jets this year to take over the offensive backfield coaching position that Mike Holovak had held for two years.
He has been in coaching since 1954 when he started out at Perkins High School in Oklahoma. In 1956 he moved to his alma mater, Oklahoma State, as an assistant coach and spent seven seasons there and was offensive coordinator.
Jim left coaching following the '62 season, but reentered as the defensive coordinator of the Sasketchewan Rough Riders in 1968-69; that team went to the Grey Cup finals once and was Western Division champ twice. In 1970 he moved to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers as head coach and was in the playoffs three times. In three of his four years at Winnipeg the team led the league in total offense despite having only two assistant coaches.
In January 1974 Jim became head coach of the Chicago Fire of the WFL."

-The New York Jets Official 1975 Yearbook


BUDDY RYAN (Linebackers Coach)
"Ryan joined the Jet staff of assistants in 1968, and will handle the linebackers for the second year after working with the defensive line for six seasons. He's known for molding rushing defenses which have ranked near the top; the Jets were first in the AFL against the rush in 1968, second in 1969, and in 1970 his charges led the AFC in rushing defense.
Buddy won four letters as a guard at Oklahoma State from 1952-55. He was defensive line coach at the University of the Pacific in 1967 after being head defensive coach at Vanderbilt in 1966. From 1961-65, he was defensive line coach at the University of Buffalo.
Ryan played on the Fourth Army championship team in Japan. He saw action in Korea."

-The New York Jets Official 1975 Yearbook


SAM RUTIGLIANO (Defensive Backs Coach)
"Hired by Charley Winner to tutor the secondary, Rutigliano has had eight seasons in the NFL, spending time with Denver and New England. He entered the pros with Denver and coached their receivers from 1967-70 before moving to a similar post with New England (1971-73).
Sam has a high school and college coaching record dating back to 1956, when he started out as head coach at Lafayette High School in Brooklyn. He later was head coach at Greenwich (CT) High (1959-61) and Chappaqua (NY) High (1962-63). He was backfield coach at Connecticut (1964-65) and spent one year (1966) as receiving coach at Maryland before coming to the pros.
Rutigliano holds a B.A. from Tulsa where he won three letters in football as a wide receiver. He graduated from Erasmus Hall High in Brooklyn."

-The New York Jets Official 1975 Yearbook


MIKE HOLOVAK (Director of Scouting)
"Holovak assumed his new position following the 1975 draft after two years as coach of the offensive backs. He had served as a scout for the Jets Galaxy combine group in 1972 before joining the coaching staff full time.
Mike was head coach of the Boston Patriots from 1961-68, earning AFL Coach of the Year honors in 1966. He guided the Patriots to the AFL's Eastern Division title in 1963. He was offensive coach of the 49ers in 1969, joined Oakland as a talent scout in 1970 and was Raiders receiver coach in 1971.
Holovak was an All-America fullback at Boston College from 1939-42. Following a tour of duty in the Navy, he played for the L.A. Rams in 1946 and then with the Bears in 1947 and 1948.
He returned to B.C. in 1949 and assumed the head coaching job in 1951. He guided the Eagles to a 49-23-3 record before joining he Patriots as Director of Player Personnel in 1959."

-The New York Jets Official 1975 Yearbook


PETE MARASCO (Scouting Coordinator)
"Marasco joined the Jets to work in the talent scouting department last May. He was Director of Player Personnel for the Montreal Alouettes and helped them win the Grey Cup. He's the brother of Carl Marasco of the Chicago Bears.
Pete gained notoriety in pro football when he and his brother began the 'Marasco Ratings' of collegiate football talent. They started doing it in 1960 and had them regularly published starting in 1968."

-The New York Jets Official 1975 Yearbook


CARROLL HUNTRESS (Talent Scout and Assistant Coach)
"Huntress will serve as a scout for the Jets exclusively after two years in the Galaxy combine. He has a coaching record in the high school and collegiate ranks which extends back to 1949.
Carroll began at Mechanic Falls High in Maine and after two years moved to Portland (ME) High in 1951. He remained as head football coach there until 1960 when he joined the University of Maryland. He coached the freshmen and the offensive ends for five years at College Park, then became head coach at Bucknell in 1965, serving four years. Most recently he was an assistant coach at Kentucky for four years.
Among the players Huntress has coached are Tom Mitchell, Gary Collins, Walter Rock, Roger Shoals and Sam Havrilak."

-The New York Jets Official 1975 Yearbook


JIM ROYER (Talent Scout and Assistant Coach)
"A member of the Jets Galaxy scouting combine, but attached to the Jets operation, Royer has been in coaching or scouting since 1958. He has coached at the U.S. Naval Academy, Buffalo, Tulane, Pittsburgh and with Richmond in the ACL.
Jim came to the NFL in 1971 with the New Orleans Saints and spent two and a half years there. In 1973 he became a scout for the Washington Redskins and joined Galaxy in 1974."

-The New York Jets Official 1975 Yearbook


ED BUCKLEY (Talent Scout and Assistant Coach)
"Buckley came to the Jets this spring as a talent scout in the Jets Galaxy combine after serving on the staff of the Kansas City Chiefs for the past seven years. He has an extensive high school coaching record and in 14 of his 18 seasons he produced undefeated teams.
Ed spent two years as a scout for the AFL (1965-66) and worked for the Monteal Alouettes in 1967 before heading for Kansas City. He's a 1942 Harvard graduate."

-The New York Jets Official 1975 Yearbook