Earl Louis "Curly" Lambeau (April 9, 1898 – June 1, 1965) was the founder, a player, and the first coach of the Green Bay Packers professional American football team.
Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun formed the Packers in 1919 while Lambeau was working as a shipping clerk at the Indian Packing Company. Lambeau was in Green Bay because illness had forced him to miss a semester at Notre Dame where he played halfback for Knute Rockne. The Packers ...
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Earl Louis "Curly" Lambeau (April 9, 1898 – June 1, 1965) was the founder, a player, and the first coach of the Green Bay Packers professional American football team.
Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun formed the Packers in 1919 while Lambeau was working as a shipping clerk at the Indian Packing Company. Lambeau was in Green Bay because illness had forced him to miss a semester at Notre Dame where he played halfback for Knute Rockne. The Packers initially played teams from Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula; however, the success of the team quickly led to its joining of the National Football League in 1921.
Lambeau coached at at the Packers as an NFL team from 1921 to 1949. As head coach, he led the Packers to six NFL championships (1929, 1930, 1931, 1936, 1939, 1944). Lambeau's regular season record as head coach of the Packers was 209–104–21 (.626 winning percentage) with a playoff record of 3–2 (212–106–21 (.656) overall). These official records do not include the Packers' 19...
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