About Jack Carlisle
Lived 1929 – 2021 (aged 91). Jack Carlisle was an american football coach.
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.
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.
Carlisle only had one leg due to an accident when he was 18 years old. He died on July 27, 2021, at his home in New Albany, Mississippi.
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Who was Jack Carlisle?
American collegiate football coach
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Jack Carlisle was born on 23 September 1929.
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Jack Carlisle died on 27 July 2021 in New Albany, Mississippi.
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Jack Carlisle was an american football coach.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Jack Carlisle. https://biography.guide/jack-carlisle/
MLA: "Jack Carlisle." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/jack-carlisle/.
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