death_date death_place birth_place coachrecord article_title position birth_date pfrcoach college name
5 march 2012 murfreesboro , tennessee old hickory , tennessee 1 -- 4 ken shipp
 coach 3 february 1929 shipke0 middle tennessee state ken shipp
ken shipp

kenneth allen shipp -lrb- february 3 , 1929 -- march 5 , 2012 -rrb- was an american college and professional football coach .
he served as an offensive coordinator and receivers coach in the national football league and briefly as the head coach of the new york jets during the 1975 season .
he assumed the job after the firing of charley winner , who was 2-7 on the season .
the team was 1-4 under shipp .
shipp was noted for his sense of humor as an nfl coach .
he had stints at trinity , florida state , tulsa , south carolina and miami before entering the nfl , where he had positions with st. louis and new orleans .
archie manning , whom shipp coached in new orleans , describes him as `` a smart man and a good coach . ''
a 1947 graduate of middle tennessee state university , he is the namesake of the ken shipp endowed scholarship at his alma mater as well as the ken shipp scholarship fund of the community foundation of middle tennessee .
ken shipp died in murfreesboro , tennessee on march 5 , 2012 , aged 83 .
