Ken Shipp

{{Short description|American football coach (1929–2012)}}

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{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Ken Shipp

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| position = Coach

| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|2|3|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Old Hickory, Tennessee, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2012|3|5|1929|2|3|mf=yes}}

| death_place = Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S.

| college = Middle Tennessee State

| pastcoaching =

• St. Louis Cardinals (1968–1970)
  Receivers coach & game scouting
• New Orleans Saints (1971–1972)
  Offensive coordinator
• New York Jets (1973–1975)
  Offensive coordinator
• New York Jets (1975)
  Interim head coach
• Detroit Lions (1976)
  Offensive coordinator
• Houston Oilers (1977–1978)
  Offensive coordinator

| coachrecord = 1–4

| pfrcoach = ShipKe0

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Kenneth Allen Shipp (February 3, 1929 – March 5, 2012) was an American college and professional football coach. He served as an offensive coordinator and receivers coach in the National Football League (NFL) and briefly as the interim 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.{{cite book |last=Sprechman |first=Jordan |title=This Day in New York Sports |publisher=Sports Publishing LLC |date=1998 |pages=324 |isbn=1-57167-254-0}}

Shipp was noted for his sense of humor as an NFL coach.{{Cite magazine |last=Zimmerman |first=Paul |title=Tough as it is to admit, those were the days |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/dr_z/news/2002/07/11/drz_insider/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020713135857/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/dr_z/news/2002/07/11/drz_insider/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 13, 2002 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=2002-07-11 |access-date=2008-04-08 }} 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.{{Cite web |last=Todd |first=Kippy |title=226 Former Blue Raider Player, College and Pro Coach Ken Shipp Donates $50,000 |url=http://news-from-mtsu.blogspot.com/2007/12/226-former-blue-raider-player-college.html |date=2007-12-21 |access-date=2008-04-08 }} Archie Manning, whom Shipp coached in New Orleans, describes him as "a smart man and a good coach."{{cite book |last=Manning |first=Archie |author-link=Archie Manning |title=Manning |publisher=HarperCollins |date=2001 |pages=99 |isbn=0-06-102024-9}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.cfmt.org/news/releases/shipp_scholarship.php |title=The Community Foundation : News |access-date=2009-12-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100121125926/http://www.cfmt.org/news/releases/shipp_scholarship.php |archive-date=2010-01-21 }}