Jack Carlisle | |
Birth Date: | 23 September 1929 |
Death Place: | New Albany, Mississippi, U.S. |
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) |
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]