Nov. 30, 2004
SAN DIEGO - Ed White, a member of the National College Football Hall of Fame, the Breitbard Hall of Fame in the San Diego Hall of Champions, and a recent inductee into the San Diego Chargers Hall of Fame, has been named assistant football coach at San Diego State.
White, who was an All-America offensive lineman at California and a four-time Pro Bowl offensive lineman in the National Football League, will coach the Aztec offensive line. He held that position from 1994 through 1997 before leaving to coach in the National Football League.
White was most recently the president and general manager of the San Diego Riptide and prior to that a development officer at San Diego State. A chance to return to Montezuma Mesa in a coaching capacity was an opportunity he could not pass up.
"My passion is football," he said. "I love the coaching aspect and developing young players. This opportunity is more than I could really ask."
White was the offensive line coach when head coach Tom Craft served as offensive coordinator in the mid 1990s. During that time, San Diego State produced some of its most prolific offenses in school history (top 10 nationally in scoring and total offense) and George Jones set a school record with more than 1,800 rushing yards in 1995.
"Ed is an outstanding teacher and communicator and has proven his expertise on both the Division I and professional levels," head coach Tom Craft said. "We are excited to be reunited with him."
White played at Indio High School, where the school's football field is named after him. He went on to Cal, where he earned All-America honors and a degree in landscape architecture. He spent 17 years in the NFL with the Chargers and Minnesota Vikings.
As a coach, he spent four years at San Diego State and four years at California and also coached for the Chargers and the Rams on two different occasions.
Among the former Aztecs coached by White were NFL standouts Kyle Turley and Ephraim Salaam, first-team All-America center Mike Malano, and Andrew Kline, whose NFL career was ended prematurely by injury.