Charles Edward “Chip” Kelly is an American football coach who is the head coach of the UCLA Bruins. He played quarterback at Manchester Central and defensive back at the University of New Hampshire. Kelly coached the Oregon Ducks to BCS games in each of his four seasons as head coach; the 2010 Rose Bowl, 2011 BCS National Championship Game, 2012 Rose Bowl and 2013 Fiesta Bowl. He coached Oregon to three consecutive outright conference championships from 2009–2011 and a conference division title in 2012. Kelly served as a head coach in the National Football League for four seasons, three with the Philadelphia Eagles and one with the San Francisco 49ers.
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Charles Edward “Chip” Kelly is an American football coach who is the head coach of the UCLA Bruins. He played quarterback at Manchester Central and defensive back at the University of New Hampshire. Kelly coached the Oregon Ducks to BCS games in each of his four seasons as head coach; the 2010 Rose Bowl, 2011 BCS National Championship Game, 2012 Rose Bowl and 2013 Fiesta Bowl. He coached Oregon to three consecutive outright conference championships from 2009–2011 and a conference division title in 2012. Kelly served as a head coach in the National Football League for four seasons, three with the Philadelphia Eagles and one with the San Francisco 49ers. After leaving the NFL, Kelly returned to college football in 2018 to coach UCLA. He was named the 2009 and 2010 Pac-10 Coach of the Year, 2010 Eddie Robinson Coach Of the Year,. 2010 Walter Camp Coach ofThe Year,2010 Sporting News Coach ofthe Year Award and 2010 Associated Press Coach of. the Year. Kelly, along with Florida Gators head coach Dan Mullen, former Winnipeg Blue Bombers offensive coordinator Gary Crowton and Ohio State head coach Ryan Day, are part of the so-called “New Hampshire mafia” as they all have strong connections to the state. Kelly was born in Dover, New Hampshire, and attended Manchester Central High School and earned his Bachelor of Science in physical education in 1990. He also played ice hockey and basketball during his high school years. Kelly broke into the coaching ranks in 1990 at Columbia University, where he served as secondary and special teams coach for the freshman team.
He changed to the offensive line coach for two seasons. Kelly was promoted to offensive coordinator at New Hampshire as the running backs coach in 1992. He left to become the defensive coordinator at the Johns Hopkins University for one season. He returned to his alma mater as theRunning backs coach for the next three seasons. He was just in time to devise a zone-blocking scheme for star Jerry Azumah. In 2004, the school broke 29 offensive school records; compiling 5,446 yards of total offense and scoring 40 or more points in seven games. Their best offensive output was in 2005 when the Wildcats finished second nationally in total offense, third in scoring and fifth in passing. They completed the season with an 11–2 record. In 2006, quarterback Ricky Santos won the Walter Payton Award under Kelly’s guidance, after Santos finished second in balloting for the award in 2005. In 2008, Kelly became the firstPac-10 coach to win an outright conference championship in his first season, sending the Ducks to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1995. In 2009, Kelly helped the Ducks gain national attention after an upset of the then #5 USC Trojans on October 31. Under his guidance, the Ducks once again broke the school record for total offense while breaking the previous school record set the previous year. In 2012, Oregon won its second consecutive BCS bowl game after they defeated #5 Kansas State in the 2013 Fiestabowl.
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