coachchamps death_date death_place collegehof birth_place dbfcoach hof article_title position birth_date pfrcoach image college hofyear name
1963 afl championship 3 january 2003 carlsbad , california 50021 minneapolis , minnesota gillmsid01 76 sid gillman
 end 26 october 1911 gillsi0 sid gillman.jpg ohio state 1983 sid gillman
sid gillman

sidney `` sid '' gillman -lrb- october 26 , 1911 -- january 3 , 2003 -rrb- was an american football player , coach , executive , and innovator .
gillman 's insistence on stretching the football field by throwing deep downfield passes , instead of short passes to running backs or wide receivers at the sides of the line of scrimmage , was instrumental in making football into the modern game that it is today .
gillman played football as an end at ohio state university from 1931 to 1933 .
he played professionally for one season in 1936 with the cleveland rams of the second american football league .
after serving as an assistant coach at ohio state from 1938 to 1940 , gillman was the head football coach at miami university from 1944 to 1947 and at the university of cincinnati from 1949 to 1954 , compiling a career college football record of 81 -- 19 -- 2 .
he then moved to the ranks of professional football , where he headed the nfl 's los angeles rams -lrb- 1955 -- 1959 -rrb- , the american football league 's los angeles and san diego chargers -lrb- 1960 -- 1969 -rrb- , and the nfl 's chargers -lrb- 1971 -rrb- , and houston oilers -lrb- 1973 -- 1974 -rrb- , amassing a career record of 123 -- 104 -- 7 in the national football league and the american football league .
gillman 's 1963 san diego chargers won the afl championship .
gillman was inducted as a coach into the pro football hall of fame in 1983 and the college football hall of fame in 1989 .
he is the sole coach in the history of american football to have earned both honors .
