Biographical details | |
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Born | September 23, 1929 |
Died | July 27, 2021 New Albany, Mississippi, U.S. | (aged 91)
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1952 | Ethel HS (MS) |
1953–1955 | Lula–Rich HS (MS) |
1956–1958 | Nettleton HS (MS) |
1959–1960 | Collierville HS (TN) |
1961–1970 | Murrah HS (MS) |
1971–1974 | Jackson Prep HS (MS) |
1975–1977 | Ole Miss (JV) |
1978–1982 | East Tennessee State |
1983–1993 | Madison-Ridgeland (MS) |
1994 | St. Joseph HS (MS) (assistant) |
1997 | Jackson Prep HS (MS) (assistant) |
1998 | East Central (MS) (assistant) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 21–34 (college) |
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.[1]
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.[2]
Carlisle only had one leg due to an accident when he was 18 years old.[3] He died on July 27, 2021, at his home in New Albany, Mississippi.[4]