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Vince Lombardi is a well-known football figure; he has had many accomplishments in his career and is well-know for them. He changed the way the game of football is played and coached; that is why it is important to explore his early Life, starting career, and ending career and death.
Football legend and coach Vincent Thomas Lombardi was in Brooklyn, New York in the second-floor basement of the Izzo home on Sixteenth Street on June 11,1913. Vince was the oldest of five children and the son of and Italian immigrant Harry Lombardi and his mother was Matilda Izzo. His life was dominated by the Catholic Church growing up, and he was made and altar boy at the St. Marks Catholic Church. At the age of 15, Vince enrolled at the Cathedral College of Immaculate Conception, where he intended to study to become a priest (Vince Lombardi Biography). But, two years later Vince decided that wasn’t what he wanted and changed paths to St. Francis Preparatory School. At St. Francis he starred playing football in the fullback position. Playing there paved the way for his career at Fordham University (8 Vince Lombardi Biography).
In 1933 Vince accepted a football scholarship Fordham University. He was an aggressive player on the field; he played the tackle position on defense and was part of the offensive line. His senior year at Fordham looked to be impressive from the start of the season, the had high hopes of going to the Rose bowl but the dreams were destroyed when they lost the final game of the season to New York University. The game was a close hard battle between the two teams and end with a score of 7-6. Lombardi learned that game to never underestimate your opponent (3 Lombardi Life Events). Fordham finished that season 5-1-2 that season. Be...

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...the Giants finished the season with a 3-9 record. It took three years for them to turn the team in a good direction and they were heading for the league championship. They would make it to the league championship in 1956 and defeat the Chicago Bears 47 to 7. Will coaching at the Giants Vince would apply for several heading coaching jobs at schools like, Wake Forest and Notre Dame, with letters of recommendation from coach Howell. Vince would never receive a reply and worried that he was unable to get a head-coaching job due to prejudice against his Italian heritage. Lombardi would continue to coach at New York and would introduce a strategy of rule blocking to the NFL. In rule blocking, the offensive lineman would block the area in which the running back was running towards, and there would be a created hole, which Lombardi would refer to as running to daylight.

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