 He finished his career with a .977 fielding percentage as an outfielder.During his off-season from baseball, Tipton was initially freshman football coach beginning in 1939 and in 1946 became an assistant football coach at The College of William & Mary.From 1953–57 he served as W&M's baseball prior to moving to West Point in 1957, where he was the lightweight football coach and baseball team head coach at the United States Military Academy.