Vince Gibson
Gibson pictured in Jambalaya 1983, Tulane yearbook
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 27, 1933 Birmingham, Alabama |
| Died | January 10, 2012 (aged 78) Kenner, Louisiana |
| Playing career | |
| 1954–1955 | Florida State |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1956–1958 | South Georgia JC (assistant) |
| 1959–1963 | Florida State (assistant) |
| 1964–1966 | Tennessee (DC) |
| 1967–1974 | Kansas State |
| 1975–1979 | Louisville |
| 1980–1982 | Tulane |
| 1992 | New Orleans Night |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 75–98–2 (college) 0–10 (AFL) |
| Bowls | 0–2 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| Big Eight Conference COY (1970) | |
Vince Gibson (March 27, 1933 – January 10, 2012) was an American football player and coach. He served as head football coach at Kansas State University (1967–1974), the University of Louisville (1975–1979), and Tulane University (1980–1982), compiling a career college football record of 75–98–2. In 1992, He coached the New Orleans Night of the Arena Football League, tallying a mark of 0–10.
Gibson was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from Florida State University in 1955, where he received two letters playing as an offensive guard for the Seminoles. He entered the coaching profession immediately after graduation.
Gibson's first football coaching position was at South Georgia College in 1956, a position he held for three years. At South Georgia, Gibson served as the sole assistant under head coach Bobby Bowden, who had grown up in the same Birmingham neighborhood as Gibson. Following his stint at South Georgia, Gibson returned to his alma mater Florida State to work as an assistant coach from 1959 to 1963. Before leaving Florida State, Gibson also helped to get Bowden hired as an assistant at that school, where Bowden eventually became head coach. Gibson next served as defensive coordinator at the University of Tennessee from 1964 to 1966.
Prior to the 1967 football season, Gibson was hired as head coach at Kansas State University. When he was hired, the school was mired in a 21-game winless streak and had not enjoyed a winning season since 1954, but he promised the Wildcat fans, "We gonna win!"
Gibson's first season at Kansas State ended with a 1–9 record, but the next year the team showed significant improvement. Behind sophomore quarterback Lynn Dickey, the 1968 squad earned the school's first national ranking in the AP Poll and shut out Nebraska in Lincoln for the school's first victory over NU in a decade. That same season, Kansas State also moved into a new football stadium.
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