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When pride still mattered a life of Vince Lombardi

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Simon & Schuster c1999Description: 541 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780684870182
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.332MAR
Summary: More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordham, West Point, and the New York Giants before his big break came at age forty-six with the chance to coach a struggling team in snowbound Wisconsin.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-518 )

More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordham, West Point, and the New York Giants before his big break came at age forty-six with the chance to coach a struggling team in snowbound Wisconsin.

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