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More than three ecades after Vince Lombardi's death, books aBout this legendary and inspiring football coach are still making the best seller list. These books cover not only the details of his life and career but also his philosophy and practical approach to dinning, witch remains relevant today. His reputation as one of the most consistently successful coaches in professional football, with victories that include the first two Super Bowl games, makes Lombardi a subject of interest on and of the football field. Limbardi was famous for his locker room speeches, which provided his players with enough motivation to win games in spite of the odds stacked against them. A he gained championships, business people took notice of Lombardi's tactics, and often invited him to speak, realizing that the same winning principles could be used in their company
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Vince Lombardi was born on June 11, 1913, to second-generation Italian immigrant parents. His father, Harry, was known as a big-hearted man, who wanted to give his children everything that he had had to do without in his childhood. They lived in comfortable homes and enjoyed all the necessities of life. Harry and his wife Matilda encouraged their children to seek the education that had alluded the…
After graduating from college, Lombardi floundered a bit as he tried to figure out what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. He had a degree in business, s he first tried his hand at that but was soon discouraged. Next, he thought he would try to obtain a law degree, but after one semester, he knew that was not what he wanted. then he worked as a chemist for one year, but that also was nt …
Lombardi honed his coaching skills for ix years on the campuses of Fordham University and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The prospects at Fordham were not very encouraging when Lombardi arrived there in 1947. At that time, the university's Football record was so depressing that Lombardi believed that his St. Cecelia's varsity squad could have defeated the college team. He …
Lombardi turned forty-one during his first ear with the Giants, approaching middle age in professional football. But he still had a lot to prove, a so did the Giants. Steve Owen had been the head coach for the Giants for twenty-three years. His glory days, such as in the 1934 Championship game against the Chicago Bears in a freezing rain, were behind him. Owen had one of his worst seasons in 19…
Buy the time that Lombardi rrived in Green Bay, his knowledge of football was as strong as the best professional coaches in the league. His task in those first few months was to get to know the players. The New York Giants and the Packers were in different conferences, so Lombardi had had little opportunity to see them play. He had been right to choose Gifford as his key player for the giants, and…
it did not take long for Lombardi to realize that retirement was not for him. He had tried to keep himself busy promoting products for several commercial companies as well as maintaining his responsibilities as general manager of the Packers. As the NFL Players' Association gained strength and threatened to strike, Lombardi became involved in the negotiations. However, this was not enough t…
What has changed most clearly from Lombardi's era is … the dramatic shift in the balance of power between players and their bosses because of big money and free agency. Would that shift have necessarily led to the Old Man's failure and broken heart? Only if one believes that his leadership style was inflexible and wholly dependent on his not-so-benevolent despotism. But that i…
(With W. C. Heinz) Run to Daylight, Fireside, 1963. Vince Lombardi's Pro Football Guide edited by Ray Stergener, Aurora Publishers, 1970. Lombardi: Winning Is the Only Thing, edited by Jerry Kramer, World Publishing Company, 1970. Vince Lombardi on Football, edited by George L. Flynn, New York Graphic Society, 1973. Coaching for Teamwork: Winning Concepts for Business in the Twenty-First C…
Dowling, Tom, Coach: A Season with Lombardi. W. W. Norton, 1970. Etter, Les, and Herman B. Vestal, Vince Lombardi: Football Legend. Garrard Publishing Company, 1975. Fage, Bohn Norwood, Vince Lombardi. Pendulum Press, 1979. Flynn, george, Vince Lombardi on Football. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981. Klein, David, The Vince Lombardi Story. Lion Books, 1971. Kramer, Jerry, and Dick Schaap, Coach Vince Lo…
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