Lauren Perry
Professor McKinnon
KINE -1321-61200
9/8/2022
Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh was born Willian Ernest Walsh on November 30, 1931, in Los Angeles, California.
There is not much information on him before high school, but it looks like he grew up playing
football. In high school he played running back in the San Francisco Bay Area for Hayward
Highschool in Hayward. After graduating from high school Walsh attended the College of San
Mateo where he studied physical education. While at the College of San Mateo he played
quarterback for two seasons before he transferred to San Jose State University. At San Jose State
Walsh continued to pursue football but instead Walsh played tight end and defensive end. Even
though football was his first love he was also great at other sports such as boxing. Walsh
participated in the intercollegiate boxing team at San Jose State which is where he won the
golden glove. Walsh graduated from San Jose State with a bachelor’s degree in physical
education in 1955. Right after graduation Walsh was in the army for two years participation on
their boxing team.
After leaving the Army, Walsh returned to San Jose State but this time as a graduate assistant
coach on the Spartans football coaching staff where he worked closing under Bob Bronzan. After
his two years of being a graduate assistant coach, Walsh graduated with his master’s degree in
physical education in 1959. Walsh’s first coaching job out of graduate school was at Washing
Highschool in Freemont where he coached the football and swim teams . While at Washington
Highschool Walsh was able to build a championship team. Even though things were coach well
at Washington, Walsh decided to apply for the assistant coaching position with Marv Levy at the
University of California where he impressed the staff and was hired. Sadly, Levy and Walsh
were never able to produce a winning season. After coaching at Cal, Walsh was hired on to the
Stanford coaching staff where he was assistant coach before beginning his pro coaching career.
In 1966 is when Walsh started his pro coaching career as an assistant coach with the
AFL’s Oakland Raider. Walsh was trained in the vertical passing offense favored by Al Davis. In
1967 Walsh was the head coach of the San Jose Apaches of the Continental Football League
(CFL) where he led the team to second place in the Pacific Division. During his started of
Walsh’s second year with the Apache’s they ceased all football operations. During that same
year Walsh moved to the AFL expansion with the Cincinnati Bengals and it was there he evolved
the philosophy known as the “West Coast Offense”. Walsh spent eight seasons with the Bengals.
In the later years of him coaching he was able to coach for several professional teams including
the San Diego Chargers (1976), Stanford (Head Coach 1977), and San Francisco 49ers (1979) .
Walsh had so much success with the 49ers that he was inducted into the Pro Hall of Fame in
1993. After Coaching he also to work as a sports broadcaster. Bill Walsh died of leukemia on
July 30, 2007, at his home in Woodside, California
Herb Brooks
Herb Brooks was born Herbert Paul Brooks Jr on August 5, 1937, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He
went to Johnson High School, where his ice hockey team won the 1955 state title.nFrom 1955 to
1959, Brooks played ice hockey for the University of Minnesota Gophers. He was a part of the
1960 Olympic team, but the week before the competition, he was eliminated. Three weeks later,
Brooks watched the team he nearly convinced to win gold in Squaw Valley from his father's
living room. Following the game, Brooks approached Jack Riley, the coach, and stated, "Well,
you must have made the correct decision—you won." This humiliating experience gave Brooks,
who was already self-driven, more drive. Brooks established a record by representing the United
States national team eight times between 1960 and 1970, including the Olympic squads in 1964
and 1968. Along with Bill Reichart and Ken Johannson, he was a member of the highest-scoring
forward line in USHL history during the 1961–1962 season while playing for the Rochester
Mustangs in the league.
Brooks transitioned into coaching when his playing career was over, and he is most known for
leading his alma mater, the Minnesota Golden Gophers, to three NCAA championships in 1974,
1976, and 1979. Brooks had a record of 175 wins, 101 losses, and 20 ties at the conclusion of his
collegiate coaching career.
He was appointed to lead the 1980 Olympic squad not long after Minnesota won its third college
championship. He hand-picked his team and included some Minnesota players as well as players
from Boston University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, longtime rivals. Brooks
created a mix of the physically demanding North American style and the quicker European style,
emphasizing innovation and teamwork, to compete specifically with the Soviet Union side. He
also emphasized peak conditioning, arguing that the fact that many of the Soviet team's rivals
were worn out by the third quarter was one of the reasons they had dominated international play.
Brooks relocated to Switzerland to coach HC Davos in the National League A following his
team's Olympic gold medal triumph. But barely six months after being hired, and in the face of
criticism for what were referred to as "rough procedures," Brooks resigned from this job in
January 1981. [6] He served as a coach with the New York Rangers in the National Hockey
League from 1981 to 1985, where he became the first American-born head coach in team history
to win 100 games. He briefly served as head coach of the then-NCAA Division III St. Cloud
State University before returning to the NHL in 1987 to take over the Minnesota North Stars, the
New Jersey Devils, and the Pittsburgh Penguins (1999–2000). He began working as a scout for
the Penguins in the middle of the 1990s, and from 2002 until the day of his passing, he served as
the director of player personnel. Before North Dakota coach Dave Hakstol was chosen to lead
the Philadelphia Flyers in May 2015, his employment by the North Stars in 1987 marked the last
occasion a college coach was chosen to lead an NHL team.
Pat Summit
Pat Summit was born Patricia Susan Summit on June 14, 1952, in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Summitt's family relocated to nearby Henrietta while she was a high school student so she could
play basketball in Cheatham County since Clarksville didn't have a females team. From there,
Summitt transferred to the University of Tennessee at Martin, where she earned All-American
accolades while competing under Nadine Gearin, the school's first women's basketball coach.
There were no athletic scholarships for women in 1970, two years before Title IX was enacted.
Summitt's parents paid for her to attend college while each of her brothers obtained athletic
scholarships. Later, she participated in the inaugural women's tournament at the 1976 Summer
Olympics and won the silver medal while co-captaining the American women's national
basketball team. Just prior to the 1974–75 season, when women's college basketball was still in
its infancy and was not yet an NCAA-sanctioned sport, 22-year-old Summitt joined the
University of Tennessee as a graduate assistant. When the previous coach abruptly resigned,
Summitts was named head coach of the Lady Vols. In her first year, she had a 16-8 record. (In
1980, she wed R.B. Summitt; their divorce was finalized in 2008) Summitt was a driven,
unyielding coach who only accepted the best from her players. She was renowned for her
rigorous workouts and her infamous "glare," which was known to send athletes running for
cover. Months after achieving her 300th victory, she led the Lady Vols to their first NCAA title
in 1987. With Summitt in charge, the group went on to win seven more championships. Summitt
achieved her 600th victory in 1996, becoming just the second woman to do so on the court. After
a flawless season, she guided Tennessee to an unprecedented third consecutive NCAA title two
years later (39–0). Only a few days earlier, she had won Coach of the Year from the Associated
Press. She surpassed Dean Smith's record in 2005 by claiming her 880th triumph. She achieved
1,000 career victories in coaching basketball in the NCAA for the first time four years later.
Summitt was identified as having early-onset Alzheimer's disease in 2011. She coached for one
more season, but most of her responsibilities were handled by her assistants. Summitt retired
from her position as head coach in April 2012, but she stayed on the Lady Vols' coaching staff as
"head coach emeritus" in an advisory capacity. Summitt not only coached college basketball but
also at the international level, guiding the American women's team to victory at the 1984 Los
Angeles Olympics. She co-authored the self-help books Reach for the Summit and Raise the
Roof with Sally Jenkins, a well-known motivator, and both were published in 1998. Summitt
won a lot of awards. Seven times (1983, 1987, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1998, and 2004) she was
selected NCAA Coach of the Year. In 2000, she was voted Naismith Women's College Coach of
the Century. Both the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball
Hall of Fame inducted her in 1999. (2000). Summitt received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 2012. Sum It Up, her book that she co-wrote with Jenkins, was released.
Eddie Robinson
Eddie Robinson was born Eddie Gay Robinson on February 13, 1919 in Jackson, Louisiana. He
attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana's capital city, for a brief time after
graduating from McKinley Senior High School there in 1937. At Leland College in Baker,
Louisiana, where he also played quarterback, he obtained a bachelor's degree in English. He then
went on to acquire a master's degree from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where he was a
member of the fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, in 1954.
Robinson had aspirations of coaching college football, but his race during the Jim Crow era
presented a significant obstacle. His sole chance of landing a job in higher education would be at
a historically black university, and these were all heavily stocked. Robinson returned to Baton
Rouge after receiving his bachelor's degree from Leland and accepted a job at a feed mill at 25
cents an hour. Soon after that, he learned that Grambling State University, then known as
Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute, was looking for a new football coach. Ralph
Waldo Emerson Jones, the school's president and its baseball coach, hired him after he submitted
an application.
The 22-year-old Robinson started working as Louisiana Normal's head football coach in 1941.
Robinson did it all because there were no assistant coaches, offensive and defensive
coordinators, or specialty coaches in those days. He taught offense and defense, mowed the
football field, packed the team's meals when they traveled to locations where black people were
not allowed in restaurants, taped his players' sore joints, and even wrote game reports for the
newspapers. He set high expectations for his players' conduct and academic performance. The
team struggled in his first year, going 3-5-1, but the next year, after adding new players and
letting go of those who didn't measure up, the Tigers had a 9-0 record and were undefeated.
World War II prevented Louisiana Normal from fielding a team in 1943 or 1944. But Robinson
went back to work in the field in 1945, and he remained there until his retirement in 1997. The
school went on to become Grambling College in 1946 and Grambling State University in 1973.
More than 200 of his athletes continued their careers by playing in the National Football League,
American Football League, and Canadian Football League, respectively. Buck Buchanan of the
Kansas City Chiefs, Willie Brown of the Oakland Raiders, and Charlie Joiner of the San Diego
Chargers were three AFL players whom Robinson coached who would subsequently be inducted
into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Robinson had 45 winning seasons in his coaching tenure, including nine black college football
national championships and 17 Southwestern Athletic Conference titles won or shared. In his
three NCAA playoff outings, he failed to record a victory.
Robinson's record-breaking victory with Grambling State in 1985 received a ton of media
attention. Some onlookers worried that the coach would experience the same kind of anti-white
sentiment that Henry Aaron did after breaking Babe Ruth's home run record. Robinson, however,
claimed that not even from the hordes of southern fans who loved Bear Bryant did he receive a
single hate mail.
John Wooden
John Robert Wooden Born October 14, 1910, in Hall Indiana, wooden was one of the greatest
coaches in sports let alone basketball itself. Wooden as a young stud had a inspiration as well,
his was the franklin wonder five, a legendary team that dominated Indiana high school basketball
from 1919- 1922. When he was just a freshman in high school, he led his team to a state
tournament title in 1927. Three-time All-State selections throughout his high school career.
Graduating from Purdue University he was the first player to be named three time All-American
at Purdue. In 1932, he was granted the Large Ten Decoration of Honor, remembering one
understudy competitor from the graduating class of each Huge Ten part school, for showing joint
athletic and scholastic greatness all through their school career.[15] He was likewise chosen for
enrollment in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.[16] Wooden is additionally a privileged individual
from Alpha Phi Omega Public Assistance Fraternity.[17] Wooden was nicknamed "The Indiana
Elastic Man" for his self-destructive jumps on the hardcourt.[14] He moved on from Purdue in
1932 with a degree in English. After College Wooden would play several years in The NBL.
While also coaching high school, after he finished playing wooden joined the US Navy and
served until 1946. Wooden began coaching in Dayton, Kentucky at a high school in the town
nearby where he would go 6-11 marking the only time he had a losing record as a coach. After
The Second Great War, Wooden trained at Indiana State Educators School, later renamed
Indiana State College, in Terre Haute, Indiana, from 1946 to 1948, succeeding his secondary
school mentor, Glenn M. Curtis. notwithstanding his obligations as b-ball mentor, Wooden
additionally trained baseball and filled in as athletic director, all while educating and finishing
his graduate degree in education. In 1947, Wooden's ball group came out on top for the Indiana
Intercollegiate Gathering championship and got a solicitation to the Public Relationship of
Intercollegiate Ball (NAIB) Public Competition in Kansas City. Wooden declined the greeting,
refering to the NAIB's strategy forbidding dark players. One of Wooden's players, Clarence
Walker, was an individual of color from East Chicago, Indiana. John Wooden took the luxurious
head coaching job at the prestigious University of California Los Angeles, better known as
UCLA. Wooden spent 27 seasons coaching the bruins becoming the most winningest coach of
college basketball going 316-68 during his era. The team won 10 NCAA championships,
including seven in a row between 1966 and 1973. During his streak of seven straight college
tournament games. While coaching this illustrious career at UCLA during this time in the
promise land he coached some of the greatest names in basketball. Kareem Abdul Jabaar for one
better known as Lew Alcindor, Bill Walton, two of the greatest big men of all time in the NBA
alone. The greatest coach of all time had one of the longest tenures in college basketball history
and he will always be remembered for his greatness that will never be forgotten