However, under head coach Weeb Ewbank and the leadership of quarterback Johnny Unitas, the Colts would go onto a 9 – 3 record during the 1958 season and reached the NFL Championship Game for the first time in their history by winning the NFL Western Conference.

The result of the game was surprising to many in the sports media as Joe Namath and Matt Snell led Jets to the Super Bowl victory, under head coach Weeb Ewbank, who won two NFL Championships with the Colts.

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Renamed the Jets, the new owners hired Weeb Ewbank as the general manager and head coach.

The Baltimore Colts had won the 1958 and 1959 NFL championships under Coach Weeb Ewbank.

* Weeb Ewbank, coach of the 1958 and 1959 NFL champion Baltimore Colts and the Super Bowl III champion New York Jets

Miami is recognized as the " Cradle of Coaches " because of its history of outstanding coaches starting their careers there, such as Paul Brown, Ara Parseghian, Weeb Ewbank, Bill Mallory, Sid Gillman, Randy Walker, and Bo Schembechler.

It was also Werblin who signed for his Jets, the team he named and colored, football talent scout and coach Wilbur ' Weeb ' Ewbank.

Wilbur " Weeb " Ewbank ( May 6, 1907 – November 17, 1998 ) was an American professional football coach.

The 1973 Jets season is the subject of the book The Last Season of Weeb Ewbank by Paul Zimmerman.

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After his freshman year, he transferred to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he followed Weeb Ewbank as the school's starting quarterback.

The Browns did not contend for the championship in the following two years, when a Baltimore Colts team coached by Brown's former protege Weeb Ewbank won a pair of titles.

Men he worked directly with, including Don Shula, Weeb Ewbank, Chuck Noll and Bill Walsh, all adopted his system to some degree.

Shula played under both Paul Brown and Weeb Ewbank, a Brown disciple, who is also in the Hall of Fame.

A quarterback and placekicker, he played college football for Utah State University and was signed as a free agent in 1964 by the American Football League's New York Jets head coach Weeb Ewbank.

His other books include Football Lingo ( WW Norton 1967, with Zander Hollander ); The Linebackers ( a 1972 short text for Scholastic Press ); The Last Season of Weeb Ewbank ( Farrar Straus and Giroux 1974 ); and Duane Thomas and the Fall of America's Team ( Warner Books 1988 ; credited to Thomas and Zimmerman, it contains diary entries by Thomas but otherwise the text is that of Zimmerman ).

The Cradle of Coaches is a nickname given to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio for producing star football coaches including Earl Blaik, Paul Brown, Woody Hayes, Bill Arnsparger, George Little, Weeb Ewbank, Sid Gillman, Ara Parseghian, Bo Schembechler, John Pont, Carmen Cozza, Bill Mallory, Jim Tressel, Joe Novak, Ron Zook, Dick Crum, Paul Dietzel, William Narduzzi, Randy Walker, John Harbaugh, Gary Moeller, Larry Smith, Dick Tomey, Sean Payton and Terry Hoeppner.

He finished his Miami career with an overall record of 46 – 80 (. 365 ), leaving Oxford after the 1937 – 1938 season, and was replaced by Weeb Ewbank.

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On May 8, 1963, he was hired as offensive line coach of the American Football League's New York Jets by head coach Weeb Ewbank.

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Following the two championships in 1958 and 1959, the Colts did not return to the NFL Championship for four seasons and saw a transition from head coach Ewbank to a young Don Shula in 1963.

Ewbank was the head coach of Washington University in St. Louis for the 1947 and 1948 seasons before moving on to become the backfield coach for Charles " Rip " Engle at Brown University.

After the 1972 season, Ewbank announced that at the end of the 1973 season he would retire as head coach in favor of his son-in-law, Charley Winner, though he would continue as general manager.

In 1939, Ewbank agreed to coach both the McGuffey High School and the Miami University basketball team when Miami ’ s basketball coach left for another job.

During World War II Ewbank joined the Navy and was assigned to Naval Station Great Lakes, where he was reunited with his Miami teammate Paul Brown who was the base football coach.

Ewbank joined the Colts at the recommendation of Cleveland Browns coach Paul Brown.

As coach of the Colts, Ewbank won the 1958 and 1959 NFL championships.

Ewbank is the only man ever to coach two different American pro football teams to victory in a championship game, and the only man to coach winners of NFL, AFL, and a Super Bowl Championships: ( NFL championships in 1958 and 1959 with the Colts, an AFL championship in 1968 with the Jets, and a Super Bowl Championship in Super Bowl III in 1969 with the Jets ).

After Ewbank left the Baltimore Colts to coach the New York Jets in 1963, Shula was hired by Colts ' owner Carroll Rosenbloom to coach Baltimore.

Ewbank and quarterback Joe Namath led the Jets to prominence in 1969 when New York defeated the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III and solidified the AFL's position in the world of professional football.

Ewbank quickly developed the Jets into a contender just as he previously had the NFL Baltimore Colts in the 1950's.

In the following years, however, the Colts failed to make the playoffs, and the Colts dismissed Ewbank after a 7 – 7 1962 season.

By the end of the 1962 NFL season, Rosenbloom thought that the Colts had slipped and Ewbank was fired.

Werblin signed Matt Snell away from the NFL in 1964, and in 1965, the Jets ' signing of Joe Namath added to the arsenal which would eventually pit Ewbank against his former team in the third AFL-NFL World Championship game ( Super Bowl III ).

The Ewbank system, used in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, was developed in the mid 1960s by John Ewbank.

Ewbank was born in Richmond, Indiana, and lived there through high school.

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Ewbank was selected as the Head Coach of the AFL All-Time Team.