Sport(s) | Football |
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Biographical details | |
Born | Dover, Ohio |
Playing career | |
1953–1956 | Ohio State |
Position(s) | Quarterback, end |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1957 | Dover HS (OH) (assistant) |
1958 | Ohio State (assistant) |
1959–1961 | Air Force (assistant) |
1962–1964 | Ohio State (assistant) |
1965–1974 | Ohio (assistant) |
1975–1978 | Marshall |
1996 | Georgia Southern |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1990–1995 | Georgia Southern (sr. assoc. AD) |
1995 | Georgia Southern (interim AD) |
1996–1998 | Georgia Southern (sr. assoc. AD) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 14–41 |
Frank Ellwood is a former American football player, coach, and college athletic administrator. He served as the head football coach at Marshall University from 1975 to 1978 and at Georgia Southern University at in 1996, compiling a record of 14–41 in five seasons. He was previously an assistant coach at the Ohio State University and at Ohio University. He won a national championship as a player at Ohio State in 1954. Ellwood served as a senior associate athletic director at Georgia Southern from 1990 until his retirement in 1998. He was the school's interim athletic director from July 25 to December 31, 1995.
Ellwood has two grandsons who both played baseball at Kansas State University, one who played in the Detroit Tigers minor league system named, Jason King.