Chuck Fairbanks

Leo Charles "Chuck" Fairbanks ( born June 10, 1933, Detroit, Michigan, † April 2, 2013 in Scottsdale, Arizona) was an American American football coach for the New England Patriots in the National Football League and in two Colleges.

Career

Due to the sudden death of the head coach at the University of Oklahoma Fairbanks took over this job for the next seven years. He won with the team three times the final of the league. In 1973, he became head coach for the New England Patriots. His first step was the pod judge John Hannah, Sam Cunningham, Ray Hamilton and Darryl Stingley. However, he could the Patriots do not train well enough to 1979 and has been released in the season by the then owner, as he again negotiated with the University of Oklahoma to become the head coach there. There he joined then, but lost 26 of 33 games and was hired by the New Jersey Generals in the United States Football League, but he was discharged in 1983.

Fairbanks died on April 2, 2013 of a brain tumor.