Frank Gansz was an American football coach whose career spanned nearly 40 years.
12 Facts About Frank Gansz
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Frank Gansz then served three years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado before spending seven months at Continental Airlines.
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Frank Gansz served as a head freshman football coach at Colgate in 1968 before returning to Navy the following year as an assistant coach and football recruiting coordinator.
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At the college level, Frank Gansz served as an assistant at Colgate, Oklahoma State, SMU, Army, UCLA, and Air Force, as well as his alma mater, Navy, where he was assistant coach and football recruiting coordinator from 1969 to 1972.
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On February 20,2008, Frank Gansz came out of retirement to join SMU as its special teams coach under head coach June Jones, with whom he had worked in Atlanta and Detroit.
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In January 1986, Frank Gansz was named assistant head coach and special teams coach for the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Frank Gansz took over as head coach of the Chiefs in January 1987 after John Mackovic was fired.
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In January 1989, Frank Gansz was fired and replaced by Marty Schottenheimer.
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Frank Gansz retired as an NFL coach in 2001 after coaching in the league for 24 seasons, including stops in San Francisco, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta and Jacksonville.
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Frank Gansz was inducted into the Western Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Frank Gansz died in Dallas on April 27,2009, from complications following knee replacement surgery.
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Frank Gansz is interred at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland.