Biographical details | |
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Born | Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. | February 11, 1958
Playing career | |
1976–1979 | Bluffton |
Position(s) | Quarterback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1980–1981 | Ridgedale HS (OH) (RB/S) |
1982 | Edinboro (WR) |
1983–1985 | Marietta (RB) |
1986 | Ohio Wesleyan (OC) |
1987–1989 | Capital (OC) |
1990–1991 | San Francisco State (associate HC) |
1992–1996 | Winnipeg Blue Bombers (OC) |
1997–1999 | Valdosta State |
2001 | Orlando Rage (OC) |
2002 | Philadelphia Eagles (OA/QC) |
2008 | Edmonton Eskimos (WR) |
2009 | Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
2014–2018 | Widener |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
2001 | Philadelphia Eagles (advance scout) |
2003–2005 | Washington Redskins (pro pers. asst.) |
2009 | Winnipeg Blue Bombers (GM) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 50–35 (college) 7–11 (CFL) |
Tournaments | 2–1 (NCAA D-III playoffs) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
1 MAC (2014) | |
Awards | |
MAC Coach of the Year (2014) ECAC South Region Co-Coach of the Year (2014) | |
Mike Kelly (born February 11, 1958) is an American gridiron football coach and former player, scout, and executive. He served as the head football coach at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia from 1997 to 1999 and Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania from 2014 to 2018. In 2009, Kelly was the head coach and general manager for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He has worked as an assistant coach at the high school football level, for several college football teams, and for professional teams in the CFL, XFL, and the National Football League (NFL). Kelly played college football as a quarterback at Bluffton College—now Bluffton University—in the late 1970s.