He played football at Sewanee: The University of the South in 1906 and 1907 and was a two-time All-Southern selection.

[6] Shipp was hired as the head football coach at the University of Arizona in 1910 and retained the following season.

[7][8] Shipp later worked at a private investigator in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee and was active in politics there as a Democratic.

He ran for criminal court clerk in 1930 and sherriff in 1934, losing both elections.

Shipp died of an apparent heart attack, on December 10, 1934, at his place of business, in Chattanooga.