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By TOM SEPPY
Associated Press Sportswriter
WASHINGTON (P) - An era of
professional football ended yes-
terday with the death from can-
cer of Vince Lombardi, the Wash-
ington Redskins' coach who reach-
ed legendary heights in the 1960s
with the teams he led at Green
Bay.
Lombardi, 57, believed deeply in
the old-fashioned virtues which
were stamped over all his teams-
hard work, dedication and never
give-up.
"A n y man's finest hour," he
once said, "is when he has work-
ed his heart out, exhausted on the
field of battle, victorious."
f$ He believed that football was
::' basically a game of blocking and
tackling, with no fancy frills in-
truding.
Lombardi, an awesome task-
master with his players, lived by
the motto: "Winning isn't the big
thing. It's the only thing."
He arrived at Green Bay, Wis.,
population 70,000 in 1959 . one
year after the Packers had posted
a miserable 1-10-1 record, their
-Associated Press worst ever.
' VINCE LOMIBARDI is cf~rried He said he was "no miracle
off the field by Jerry Kramer man," yet forged a 7-5 record
(64) after his Green Bay Pack- during his first season, won the
ers defeated the Oakland Raid- divisional championship the fol-
ers in the second Super Bowl on lowing year, and then proceeded
ers ianuary14 second to capture National Football Lea-
gue titles in 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966,
Wand 1967. His Packers also won
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His nine-year coaching record
at Green Bay was 89-29-4.
After becoming the first mar
in the NFL playoff history ever
to win three straight champion-
ships, he retired as a coach tc
serve as general manager of the
Packers. He later was to describe
the one-year off-the-field as the
worst 12 months of his life.
Lombardi joined the Washing-
ton Redskins, a team that hadn't
had a winning season in 14 years
and hadn't won a divisional cham-
pionship in 27, in February' of
1969.
"I hope to be a winner the first
year," he told his first news con-
ference in the nation's capital.
The record during h is initial
Redskins season - 7 victories, 5
losses and 2 ties; was almost iden-
tical to the mark he made during
his first Green Bay season.
It also kept intact Lombardi's
record, of never having a losing
season in 10 years of pro footbal.
A native of New York, where he
was born June 11, 1913, the 5-
foot-7, 170-pound barrelled-chest-
ed Lombardi played his collegiate
football at Fordham University.
He. played guard and was one of
the famed Seven Blocks of Gran-
ite in the middle 1930s.
After coaching and teaching at
St. Cecelia High School in Engle-
wood, N.J., 'he became line coach
at Fordham.
In, 1948, Lombardi was named
assistant to Earl "Red" Blaik at
West Point. He left the U.S. mili-
tary Academy ^in 1954, to join *the
New York Giants under Jim Lee
Howell as offensive line coach. In
four years with the Giants, they
won two divisional titles and one
world championship.'
When he was named head coach
of the Packers in 1959, Lombardi
said: "A good football team is my
No. 1 job and I am keeping that
in mind at all times.
"I cannot make any predictions,
on what kind of team I'll have.
But I know this much: You will
be proud of the team bec use I
will be proud of the team."
Lombardi was sumiing up his
own philosophy.
Along with pride, he stressed
love and dedication. For his play-
ers, this totaled up to hard work,
sacrificing and success.
He was a man of grand emo-
tions that a trifle could trigger.
He was also a man with steely
self-control who often, was at his
most gracious after a particularly
bitter defeat.
Lombardi could take grown men
and whip them into a fury that
forced tears of rage from their
eyes or so intimidate an injured
player that he would jog up and
down the' grandstand steps of
Lambeau Field despite a ripped
cartilege that in a few days would
require surgery.
A well-known Packer halfback
once stood up in a restaurant and
repeatedly slapped an imaginery
face in savage mimicry of the day
he would assert himself, against
his coach, Lombardi. That day
never came.
Bluff as some might, mostey
Packer players bowed before Lom-
bardi.
Love him or hate him and some
did- both simultaneously, they re-
spected him with a deference given
few mortals.
Linebacker Ray Nitschke once
sat transfized during a footbal*
banquet. At the dais, Lombardi
was speaking. He spoke of disci-
pline and obedience and order-
themes that Nitschke had heard
the coach elaborate on countless
times before.
"Listen to him," said Nitschke
marveling.
Most marveled at Lombardi
from aydistance. Close social con-
tact was reserved only for a few.
If honors had come to Lombar-
di, he gave "something b a c k"
without a fuss.
He may have been the only of-4
ficial in sports at his level whose
background showed that when he
was coach and general manager
in Green Bay' he found time to
serve on, the Council of Human
Relations, was president of the
State Mental Health Association,
chairman of the S t a t e Cancer
Fund, director of Pop- Warner~
Football; co-chairman of the State
Council on Physical Fitness and
special events coordinator of the
City of Hope{.
in Washington, with added du-
ties, he was on the Advisory Board
of National Capital Area Councilo
of Boy Scouts' of America, a mem-
ber of the Board of Trustees of
D.C.. Division, American Cancer
Society, 'on the Commitee f o r
Children's Hospital of the District
of Columbia, honorary chairman
of Washington, D.C. Kidney Foun-
dation drive for 1970, on the boar
of directors of the National Foot-
ball Foundation and Hall of
Fame, and a member .of Citizens
Committee for Peace with Secur-
ity.
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