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...Famed for an old-fashioned ground attack, Coach Vince Lombardi's resurgent Green Bay Packers switched signals and passed their way to a 35-21 win over the Los Angeles Rams to clinch the National Football League's Western title. Next week in the league-championship game against the East's Philadelphia Eagles, the Packers will match the power game of Halfback Paul Hornung and Fullback Jim Taylor against the pinpoint passing of nerveless Eagle Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin...
...from Siberia. One of the most granitic of the "Seven Blocks of Granite" at Fordham in the mid-30s. Lombardi began talking tough to Green Bay the minute he arrived in 1959 to put a backbone into a team that had won just one game the year before. "Green Bay was like Siberia before Lombardi came," says one player. "Other coaches would threaten to send their players here." In the first week of practice, Lombardi yelled so long and loud that he lost his voice. He insisted that injured players run in practice ("You're preparing yourself mentally"), warned...
...time at all, Lombardi realized that the Packers had just the kind of back he was looking for: Paul Hornung, ex-Notre Dame quarterback and former golden boy of college football. Like Lombardi's theories, Hornung went against the trend of the pros. In a league of specialists, Hornung could do nothing supremely: his passing, speed and power were only fair. What Hornung could do was play solid football tough enough to please even Lombardi. "You're my left halfback," Lombardi told Hornung. "The only way you can get out of it is to get killed...
...Dark. Before Lombardi's arrival, recalls Hornung, "I wanted to get out of Green Bay. I had been wandering around in a daze-quarterback, halfback, fullback. Having a coach's backing was like coming out of the dark...
...already scored 165 points to break by 27 the league record set in 1942 by Green Bay End Don Hutson, another blond glamour boy. But proud as he is of his own performance, Hornung is in no doubt as to the reason for the resurgence of the Packers: "Lombardi. Lombardi raises hell...