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Head coach
A head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing sports men and women. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches. In some sports such as soccer and baseball, the head coach is usually called a manager, whilst in other sports...
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Vince Lombardi
Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American football coach.
Lombardi played football at St. Francis Preparatory School, and later Fordham University. He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at St. Cecila, a...
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- 1969
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- 1969
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Vince Lombardi
Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American football coach.
Lombardi played football at St. Francis Preparatory School, and later Fordham University. He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at St. Cecila, a...
To:
- 1967
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- 1959
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Bill Parcells
Bill Parcells (born Duane Charles Parcells August 22, 1941 in Englewood, New Jersey) is the current Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He is also a former American football head...
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- 1990
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- 1983
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Jim Fassel
James Edward "Jim" Fassel (born August 31, 1949 in Anaheim, California) is the head coach for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League.
Fassel played high school football for the legendary coach Clare Van Hoorebeke at Anaheim High...
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- 2003
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- 1997
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Tom Fears
Thomas Jesse Fears (December 3, 1922 – January 4, 2000) was a Mexican-American football wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams in the National Football League, playing nine seasons from 1948 to 1956.
Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Fears was the son of...
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- 1970
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- 1967
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J.D. Roberts
John David (J.D.) Roberts (born October 24, 1932) was an American football player and coach, serving as head coach of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League from the middle of the 1970 season until his dimsissal after four preseason...
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- 1972
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- 1970
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John North
John Puckett North (born June 17, 1921 in Gilliam, Louisiana) is a former American football offensive and defensive end in the National Football League for the Baltimore Colts, as well as for the Baltimore Colts of the All-America Football...
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- 1975
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- 1973
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Ernie Hefferle
Ernie Hefferle is a former head football coach for Boston College and the New Orleans Saints. A former football star at Duquesne University, he served as a high school coach in South Huntingdon, Pennsylvania and Tarentum, Pennsylvania from 1947-1950...
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- 1975
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- 1975
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Hank Stram
Henry Louis "Hank" Stram (January 3, 1923–July 4, 2005), was an American college and Professional Football coach. He is best known for his fifteen-year tenure with the American Football League's Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs and the Chiefs of the...
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- 1977
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- 1976
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Dick Nolan
Richard Charles Nolan (March 26, 1932 – November 11, 2007) was an American football player and head coach in the National Football League.
He was the father of Mike Nolan.
In his youth, Nolan was quarterback at White Plains High School and later a...
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- 1980
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- 1978
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Dick Stanfel
Richard Anthony Stanfel (born July 20, 1927 in San Francisco, California) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Detroit Lions and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University...
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- 1980
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- 1980
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Bum Phillips
Oail Andrew “Bum” Phillips (born on September 29, 1923 in Nederland, Texas) is a former American football coach. He coached at the high school, college and pro level.
He played football at Lamar Junior College (now Lamar University) in Beaumont,...
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- 1985
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- 1981
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Wade Phillips
Wade Allen Phillips (born June 21, 1947 in Orange, Texas) is the head coach for the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys. He is also a former head coach of the New Orleans Saints, where his record was 1–3, the Denver Broncos, where his record...
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- 1985
From:
- 1985
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Jim E. Mora
Not to be confused with his son Jim L. Mora.
James Earnest Mora (born May 24, 1935 in Glendale, California) is the former head coach of the USFL's Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars and the NFL's New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts. He played...
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- 1996
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- 1986
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Rick Venturi
Rick Venturi is a former head coach at Northwestern University and longtime NFL assistant known for his defense. As head coach of Northwestern, his career record was 1-31-1, as he coached the early segment of Northwestern's Division I record 34-game...
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- 1996
From:
- 1996
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Mike Ditka
Michael Keller Ditka, Jr. (born October 18, 1939 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania), also known as "Iron Mike", is a former American football NFL player, television commentator, and coach. Ditka coached the Chicago Bears for 11 years and New Orleans Saints...
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- 1999
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- 1997
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Jim Haslett
James Donald "Jim" Haslett (born December 9, 1955 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American football coach and former linebacker. He is currently the head coach for the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League. Previously, he served as head...
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- 2005
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- 2000
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Norb Hecker
Norbert Earl Hecker (May 26, 1927 – March 14, 2004) was an American football player and coach who was part of eight National Football League championship teams, but may be best remembered as the first head coach of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.
Born...
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- 1968
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- 1966
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Norm Van Brocklin
Norman Mack "Norm" Van Brocklin (March 15, 1926 – May 2, 1983), nicknamed "The Dutchman", was an American football player and coach. He was also a first rate punter in college and in the NFL. Van Brocklin was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of...
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- 1974
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- 1968
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Marion Campbell
Francis Marion Campbell (born May 25, 1929 in Chester, South Carolina) is a former American football defensive lineman and head coach. Campbell played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs from 1949 until 1951 where he earned the nickname "Swamp...
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- 1976
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- 1974
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Pat Peppler
Pat Peppler (born April 16, 1922) is a former football coach and executive who worked for teams that won five National Football League titles. He may be best remembered for serving as head coach of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons during the final nine...
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- 1976
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- 1976
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Leeman Bennett
Leeman Bennett (born June 20, 1938) is a former football coach who served at both the collegiate and professional levels, but is most prominently remembered as head coach of the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
A...
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- 1982
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- 1977
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Dan Henning
Daniel Ernest Henning, Jr. (born June 21, 1942 in The Bronx, New York) is currently the offensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins. He was also an American football player. A quarterback, he played collegiately at William and Mary, and...
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- 1986
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- 1983
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Marion Campbell
Francis Marion Campbell (born May 25, 1929 in Chester, South Carolina) is a former American football defensive lineman and head coach. Campbell played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs from 1949 until 1951 where he earned the nickname "Swamp...
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- 1989
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- 1987
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Jim Hanifan
Jim Hanifan (born September 21, 1933 in Compton, California) is a longtime American football coach and former head coach of the St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Falcons. He compiled a career record of 39-53-1.
Hanifan played college football at the...
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- 1989
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- 1989
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Jerry Glanville
Jerry Glanville (born October 14, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan) is a career American football coach. While at Northern Michigan University, Glanville played middle linebacker. In 1964, he graduated from Northern Michigan. Glanville has also worked as...
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- 1993
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- 1990
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June Jones
June Sheldon Jones, III (born February 19, 1953(1953-02-19) in Portland, Oregon) is an American football coach, formerly with the Atlanta Falcons and the University of Hawaiʻi. He agreed to become head coach at Southern Methodist University on...
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- 1996
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- 1994
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Dan Reeves
Daniel Edward Reeves (born January 19, 1944 in Rome, Georgia) is a former American football player and head coach. He played in two Super Bowls, Super Bowl V and Super Bowl VI and also coached in four more, Super Bowl XXI, Super Bowl XXII and Super...
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- 2003
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- 1997
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Rich Brooks
Rich Brooks (born August 20, 1941 in Forest, California) is an American football coach and the head football coach at the University of Kentucky. Before coaching at Kentucky, Brooks spent 18 seasons as head coach at the University of Oregon, winning...
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- 1998
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- 1998
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Wade Phillips
Wade Allen Phillips (born June 21, 1947 in Orange, Texas) is the head coach for the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys. He is also a former head coach of the New Orleans Saints, where his record was 1–3, the Denver Broncos, where his record...
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- 2003
From:
- 2003
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Jim L. Mora
Not to be confused with his father Jim E. Mora.
James Lawrence "Jim" Mora (born November 19, 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is the head coach for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks. From 2004-06, Mora was the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, where his...
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- 2006
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- 2004
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Bobby Petrino
Bobby Petrino (born March 10, 1961(1961-03-10) in Lewistown, Montana) is an American college football coach and the current head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks. He previously served a majority of the 2007 season as head coach of the Atlanta...
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- 2007
From:
- 2007
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Emmitt Thomas
Emmitt Earl Thomas (born June 3, 1943) is the assistant head coach and secondary coach of the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons. He is a former college and professional football player who played for the American Football League's Kansas...
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- 2007
From:
- 2007
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Jack Patera
John Arlen "Jack" Patera (born August 1, 1933 in Bismarck, North Dakota) is a former American football player and coach in the National Football League. He played for the Baltimore Colts, Chicago Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys. He was an assistant...
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- 1982
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- 1976
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Mike McCormack
Michael Joseph McCormack (born June 21, 1930) is a former American football player and coach in the National Football League. He played with the Cleveland Browns from 1954-1962 and served as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, the Baltimore Colts...
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- 1982
From:
- 1982
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Chuck Knox
Charles Robert "Chuck" Knox (born April 27, 1932 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania) is a former football coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. He is best remembered as head coach of three National Football League teams, the Seattle...
To:
- 1991
From:
- 1983
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Tom Flores
Thomas R. "Tom" Flores (born March 21, 1937 in Fresno, California) is a retired American collegiate and professional football quarterback and former professional coach. Flores and Mike Ditka are the only two people in the NFL history to win Super...
To:
- 1994
From:
- 1992
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Dennis Erickson
Dennis Erickson (born March 24, 1947 in Everett, Washington) is a football coach, currently the head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils. He has been the head coach of six different college football programs (one, Idaho, twice) and two NFL...
To:
- 1998
From:
- 1995
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Mike Holmgren
Michael George Holmgren (born June 15, 1948 in San Francisco, California) a former professional football coach and current team president of the Cleveland Browns. He served as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1992 to 1998, the Seattle...
To:
- 2008
From:
- 1999
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Tom Landry
Thomas Wade "Tom" Landry (September 11, 1924 – February 12, 2000) was an American football player and coach. He is legendary for his successes as the coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He is ranked as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in NFL...
To:
- 1988
From:
- 1960
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Jimmy Johnson
James William "Jimmy" Johnson (born July 16, 1943) is a former American football coach who currently appears on Fox NFL Sunday, the Fox network's NFL pregame show. He was the first football coach whose teams won both an NCAA Division 1A National...
To:
- 1993
From:
- 1989
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Bill Parcells
Bill Parcells (born Duane Charles Parcells August 22, 1941 in Englewood, New Jersey) is the current Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He is also a former American football head...
To:
- 2006
From:
- 2003
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Chan Gailey
Thomas Chandler Gailey, Jr. (born January 5, 1952, in Gainesville, Georgia) is an American football coach who last served as offensive coordinator for the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs. He was formerly head coach of the Georgia Tech...
To:
- 1999
From:
- 1998
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Dave Campo
Dave Campo (born July 18, 1947) is an American football coach, a former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, and currently secondary coach with the Cowboys.
Campo attended Robert E. Fitch High School in Groton, Connecticut and was a student and a...
To:
- 2002
From:
- 2000
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Barry Switzer
Barry Switzer (born October 5, 1937) is the Head Coach of The Oklahoma Sooners football team. He was rehired on December 27th 2009 after Bob Stoops resigned to accept the head coaching job at Floridafootball coach, in the college and professional...
To:
- 1997
From:
- 1994
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Buck Shaw
Lawrence T. (Buck) Shaw (March 28, 1899 – March 19, 1977) was a football coach for Santa Clara University, the University of California, Berkeley, the San Francisco 49ers, the Air Force Academy (its first Varsity coach) and the Philadelphia Eagles....
To:
- 1954
From:
- 1946
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Red Strader
Norman "Red" Strader (December 21, 1902 – May 26, 1956) was a football player and coach who served in both capacities at the collegiate and professional levels. In the college ranks, he spent two years as head coach at St. Mary's College of...
To:
- 1955
From:
- 1955
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Frankie Albert
Frank Cullen "Frankie" Albert (January 27, 1920 – September 5, 2002) was a quarterback in the NFL.
Frankie Albert, who was born in Chicago, started at Glendale High School, Glendale, California, and at Stanford University where he was coached by T...
To:
- 1958
From:
- 1956
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Red Hickey
Howard Wayne "Red" Hickey (February 14, 1917 — March 30, 2006) was an American football player and coach who played for two teams and served as head coach for the San Francisco 49ers, where he was most famous for creating the shotgun formation in...
To:
- 1963
From:
- 1959
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Jack Christiansen
Jack Leroy Christiansen (December 20, 1928 – June 29, 1986) was a football player and coach who put together an eight-year Hall of Fame playing career with Detroit Lions in the National Football League. Following his retirement, he served as head...
To:
- 1967
From:
- 1963
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Dick Nolan
Richard Charles Nolan (March 26, 1932 – November 11, 2007) was an American football player and head coach in the National Football League.
He was the father of Mike Nolan.
In his youth, Nolan was quarterback at White Plains High School and later a...
To:
- 1975
From:
- 1968
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Monte Clark
Monte Dale Clark (January 24, 1937 - September 16, 2009) was a former American football player who served as head coach for two National Football League teams: the San Francisco 49ers and the Detroit Lions.
Clark played collegiately for three years...
To:
- 1976
From:
- 1976
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Ken Meyer
Ken Meyer was a former football coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. He may be best remembered as the head coach of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers in 1977.
A native of Ashtabula, Ohio, Meyer played...
To:
- 1977
From:
- 1977
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Pete McCulley
Pete McCulley (d. November 25, 1992) was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers for the first nine games of the 1978 season. Winning only one game during that span, he was eventually fired and replaced with Fred O'Connor. Among other coaching...
To:
- 1978
From:
- 1978
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Fred O'Connor
Fred O'Connor is an American football coach. He has served in coaching positions in the National Football League, the Canadian Football League, and NCAA college football.
Bowl Games as a Coach
At Florida Atlantic University
Fred O'Connor joined the...
To:
- 1978
From:
- 1978
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Bill Walsh
William Ernest "Bill" Walsh (November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007) was an American head football coach of the San Francisco 49ers and Stanford University, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense. Walsh went 102–63–1 with the 49ers,...
To:
- 1988
From:
- 1979
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George Seifert
George Seifert (born January 22, 1940, in San Francisco, California) is a former NFL head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Carolina Panthers. Seifert joined the 49ers' coaching staff under Bill Walsh in 1980 as defensive backs coach and...
To:
- 1996
From:
- 1989
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Steve Mariucci
Steve Mariucci (born November 4, 1955) is a former National Football League coach. He coached for the San Francisco 49ers and most recently for the Detroit Lions.
Mariucci was born and raised in Iron Mountain, Michigan, and was a three-time All...
To:
- 2002
From:
- 1997
Team:
Dennis Erickson
Dennis Erickson (born March 24, 1947 in Everett, Washington) is a football coach, currently the head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils. He has been the head coach of six different college football programs (one, Idaho, twice) and two NFL...
To:
- 2004
From:
- 2003
Team:
Mike Nolan
Mike Nolan (born March 7, 1959 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American football defensive coordinator for the Denver Broncos
Nolan attended the University of Oregon and was a three-year letterman in football and starter at safety.
He has coached at...
To:
- 2008
From:
- 2005
