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Died. Earl Louis ("Curly") Lambeau, 67, founder and longtime coach of the Green Bay Packers pro football team, a former Notre Dame fullback, who in 1919 talked Wisconsin's Indian Packing Co. into bankrolling a team, over the next 31 years led it to 234 victories and six National Football League championships through his development of the forward pass; of a heart attack; in Sturgeon...
Reluctant Donation. Had it not been for a sore throat, Green Bay might still be just the paper napkin capital of the U.S. In 1918, Earl Louis Lambeau, a tousleheaded Notre Dame fullback and a disciple of Knute Rockne, came home to Green Bay to have his tonsils removed, stayed on as a $250-a-month shipping clerk at the Indian Packing Co. "Curly" Lambeau liked his job, but he still pined to play football. Within the year, he scraped up $500 to start a professional team. By naming his motley squad the Packers, Curly persuaded his reluctant employers...
Those were the days when football was a ground game-four yards and a choking cloud of dust. Lambeau's Packers played it like basketball. ''Other teams passed in desperation. We threw on first down," he recalls. But nobody complained. Lambeau. after all, was the coach as well as the ace passer, and besides. the Packers almost always won. In 1921, looking for new worlds to conquer. Lambeau and his friends recklessly spent $50 for a franchise in the embryo National Football League (today's cost, including players: $550.000). and in 1929 the Packers won their...
Once Curly Lambeau cajoled a fan into selling his cream-colored Marmon roadster (for $1,500) to bail the team out of hock; in repayment, Lambeau allowed his benefactor to play one minute of one Packer game. Another year, a spectator tumbled from the Packer grandstand, sued, won a $5,000 verdict, and forced the team into receivership; Green Bay businessmen chipped in $15,000 to save the franchise. Again, in 1949, after two miserable seasons (Lambeau's last as coach), the Packers floundered financially...
...father was responsible for the success and integrity of pro football, and it was he who sold "postgraduate" football to the late Timothy J. Mara, George Halas, Arthur J. Rooney, George Preston Marshall, "Curly" Lambeau, the late Charles Bidwell (Cardinals), the late George A. Richards (Detroit) and the late Bert Bell...