Bio

Allen Curtiss starts his fourth season at Ferris State in 2011 and serves as the special teams coordinator & defensive line coach.

Curtiss previously spent 20 years at Bluffton (Ohio) University where he was the linebackers coach and recruiter for the Beavers.

For four out of the last eight years, he guided the Bluffton defense to a No. 2 ranking in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference in both pass defense and total defense.

In 2000, Curtiss led the Bluffton defensive unit to three shutout victories on their way to an HCAC co-championship. It marked just the fifth time in Bluffton history that the defense had totaled three shutouts in the same season.

After coaching the defensive line from 1988 through 1999, Curtiss took over the linebacking corps in the 2000 season and produced a first-team All-HCAC linebacker the last eight seasons.

Curtiss and his wife, Phyllis, have both a son, Eric, and daughter, Carrie. He graduated from Western Michigan in 1982.