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Their son, Vincent Henry Lombardi (Vince Jr.), was born in 1942, [112] and their daughter Susan followed five years later in 1947. [ 113 ] Lombardi's perfectionism, [ 87 ] [ 114 ] authoritarian nature [ 115 ] and temper, [ 109 ] required that Marie learn to defend herself when Lombardi verbally abused her. [ 37 ]
Thomas Wade Landry (/ ˈ l æ n d r i / LAN-dree; September 11, 1924 – February 12, 2000) was an American professional football coach, player, and World War II veteran. Regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, [1] he was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL), a position he held for 29 seasons.
Tom Landry (1924–2000), Hall of Fame head coach of Dallas Cowboys; cenotaph at Texas State Cemetery in Austin; Cyrus Longworth Lundell (1907–1994), scientist; Merlyn Mantle (1932–2009), author and widow of Mickey Mantle [4] Mickey Mantle (1931–1995), Hall of Fame baseball player [4]
Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones tip-toed around talk of their acrimonious split almost 30 years ago, when they had just teamed as coach and owner to win consecutive Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys.
In 1960, Schramm hired head coach Tom Landry and chief scout Gil Brandt. By the mid-1960s, the three men had built the Cowboys into an elite team. The Cowboys, despite two consecutive losses to the Green Bay Packers in the NFL Championship Game in 1966 and '67, had 20 consecutive winning seasons, and won the most games of any NFL team of the 1970s.
Lilly began his career as a defensive end in 1961, but midway through 1963, his third season, Cowboys coach Tom Landry moved him to defensive tackle. Lilly made the adjustment, becoming the main man in Dallas' vaunted "Doomsday Defense". As a tackle, Lilly was a first-team All-NFL choice every year from 1964 through 1969, then again in 1971.
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Shula also had losing records against Tom Flores (1–6) Raymond Berry (3–8), Walt Michaels (5–7–1), and Vince Lombardi (5–8). [ 122 ] Shula has the distinction of having coached five different quarterbacks to Super Bowl appearances: Johnny Unitas and Earl Morrall in 1968, Bob Griese in 1971, 1972, and 1973, David Woodley in 1982, and ...