18 Facts About Jack Curtice

Jack Curtice attended Louisville Male High School, where he played football, basketball, and baseball and ran hurdles for the track team.

Jack Curtice next attended Transylvania University, where he again played football, basketball, and baseball.

Jack Curtice was the quarterback on the Transylvania football team for four years.

Jack Curtice won all-Kentucky honors in both football and basketball.

In 1930, Jack Curtice began his coaching career as the basketball and football coach at Elizabethtown High School in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

In May 1932, Jack Curtice was hired as the athletics coach and history teacher at Owensboro High School in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Jack Curtice was a coach there from until he was granted a release from his contract in May 1938.

In 1938, Jack Curtice was hired at West Texas State in Canyon, Texas, as a professor of physical education and freshman coach in all sports.

Jack Curtice became an assistant coach for the varsity football team in 1939 and was appointed head coach in December 1939.

In January 1942, Jack Curtice was hired as the athletic director and head football coach at the Texas School of Mines.

Jack Curtice was assigned to duty in the Aleutian Islands and with the Saint Mary's Pre-Flight School.

Jack Curtice returned to Texas Mines in October 1945, but the school did not field a football team that year.

In June 1950, Jack Curtice was hired to replace Ike Armstrong as the head football coach at Utah.

In January 1958, Jack Curtice was hired as the head football coach at Stanford.

Jack Curtice's teams did not have a winning record in any of those years.

In February 1963, Jack Curtice was hired as the head football coach at UC Santa Barbara.

Jack Curtice remained as athletic director at UC Santa Barbara until his retirement in January 1973.

Jack Curtice died at his home in Santa Barbara, California, on August 19,1982.