Jack Carlisle

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Jack Carlisle

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|9|23}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|7|27|1929|9|23}}

| death_place = New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.

| alma_mater =

| coach_years1 = 1952

| coach_team1 = Ethel HS (MS)

| coach_years2 = 1953–1955

| coach_team2 = Lula–Rich HS (MS)

| coach_years3 = 1956–1958

| coach_team3 = Nettleton HS (MS)

| coach_years4 = 1959–1960

| coach_team4 = Collierville HS (TN)

| coach_years5 = 1961–1970

| coach_team5 = Murrah HS (MS)

| coach_years6 = 1971–1974

| coach_team6 = Jackson Prep HS (MS)

| coach_years7 = 1975–1977

| coach_team7 = Ole Miss (JV)

| coach_years8 = 1978–1982

| coach_team8 = East Tennessee State

| coach_years9 = 1983–1993

| coach_team9 = Madison-Ridgeland (MS)

| coach_years10 = 1994

| coach_team10 = St. Joseph HS (MS) (assistant)

| coach_years11 = 1997

| coach_team11 = Jackson Prep HS (MS) (assistant)

| coach_years12 = 1998

| coach_team12 = East Central (MS) (assistant)

| overall_record = 21–34 (college)

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Jack Mason Carlisle (September 23, 1929 – July 27, 2021) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee from 1978 to 1982, compiling a record of 21–34.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/coaches/jack-carlisle-1.html|title=Jack Carlisle|publisher=Sports-Reference CFB|access-date=December 6, 2018}}

As a high school football coach at Lula–Rich High School in Mississippi, he coached Thomas Harris who later wrote the novel, The Silence of the Lambs.{{cite web|url=https://msfame.com/hall-of-fame/inductees/jack-mason-carlisle/|title=Jack Carlisle|publisher=Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame|access-date=December 6, 2018|archive-date=December 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223122846/https://msfame.com/hall-of-fame/inductees/jack-mason-carlisle/|url-status=dead}}

Carlisle only had one leg due to an accident when he was 18 years old.{{cite web|url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/magnolia/2017/09/14/book-details-career-legendary-football-coach-jack-carlisle/662613001/|title=Book Details Career of Legendary Coach Jack Carlisle|newspaper=Clarion Ledger|access-date=December 6, 2018}} He died on July 27, 2021, at his home in New Albany, Mississippi.{{cite web|url=https://www.wtva.com/content/news/Great-Mississippi-high-school-football-coach-Jack-Carlisle-died-at-91-574949061.html|title=Great Mississippi high school football coach Jack Carlisle died at 91|first=Zac|last=Carlisle|work=WTVA|date=July 28, 2021|access-date=July 28, 2021}}