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The day Vince Lombardi was born
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Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception
at 15 years old Vince Lombardi attended Cathedral Collage of Immaculate a six-year secondary program to become a Catholic priest. -
Senior Year
His Senior Year, the 1936 Rams went 5-0-2 before losing, what Lombardi called; "The most devastating loss of my life," when they lost the final game of the season 7-6 to NYU, and with it, the hopes of playing in the Rose Bowl. -
Semi Professional Football
In 1939, after two years at a St. Jesus Alphabet School, semi-professional football (with the Brooklyn Eagles, bulking up to 205 lb., and Wilmington Clippers), and an unfulfilled semester of Fordham Law School at night, Lombardi accepted an assistant coaching job at St. Cecilia, a Catholic high school in Englewood, New Jersey. He was hired by its new head coach, his former Fordham teammate, quarterback "Handy" Andy Palau. -
Married
In 1940, Lombardi married Marie Planitz, a cousin of another Fordham teammate, Jim Lawlo -
Head Coach
Andy Palau left for Fordham in 1942 and Lombardi became the head coach at St. Cecilia. -
Heading To Victory
Lombardi stayed a total of eight years (five as head coach), leaving for Fordham to coach the freshman teams in football and basketball. The following year he served as an assistant coach for Fordham's varsity football team. -
Football session
Lombardi accepted another assistant's job, at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a position that would greatly influence his future coaching style. Lombardi served as offensive line coach under legendary head coach Colonel Red Blaik. -
Becoming a virtually synonymous with the NFL
Vince Lombardi has become virtually synonymous with the NFL. This began during his career: he was featured as the face of the NFL on the cover of Time as part of the magazine's cover story on "The Sport of the '60s. -
Football scholarship
In 1933, Lombardi accepted a football scholarship to Fordham University in the Bronx to play for new head coach Sleepy Jim Crowley, one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame in the 1920s. Lombardi was an undersized guard (5'8" 185 lb.) Nonetheless, he became one of the Seven Blocks of Granite, a nickname given to the Fordham University football team's offensive line by Fordham University publicist Timothy Sylvester Cohane
