- Born: 11 June 1913
- Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
- Died: 3 September 1970 (colon cancer)
- Best Known As: The head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s
As head coach and general manager, Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi led Wisconsin's Green Bay Packers to dominate professional football in the 1960s. He was once a defensive guard at Fordham University, part of the "Seven Blocks of Granite" that gained fame in the 1930s. After he graduated in 1937 Lombardi went to law school, but then shifted gears and became a football coach at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood, New Jersey. He left in 1947 to join the coaching staff at Fordham, and in 1949 he went to coach at West Point. His first job in professional football came in 1954, coaching offense as an assistant for the New York Giants. He helped the Giants to five winning seasons and a league championship (1956), and in 1959 was hired by the Green Bay Packers as both head coach and general manager.
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