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...didn't become a pro head coach until he was 47, but Hall of Famer Bill Walsh made the most of his 10-season NFL career. He transformed the San Francisco 49ers from a long-suffering franchise with a 2-14 record into the winningest team of the '80s, with three Super Bowls in seven years. Before Walsh, conventional wisdom held that NFL coaches needed a loud voice and an iron fist. Walsh was just as likely to appeal to his players' intellect. With his silver hair and professorial mien, he was nicknamed "the Genius." His main invention...
...winningest freshman in the history of the Harvard wrestling program has his eyes set on one goal—becoming a national champion. J. P. O’Connor accumulated 37 victories in his first collegiate season, placed fifth at the NCAA Championships, and became the first freshman in program history to earn All-American honors. Named Freshman of the Year in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA), O’Connor also earned Second-Team All-Ivy honors and was the co-Ivy League Rookie of the Year. “I attribute a lot of my success...
...years with the Crimson have been paved with victories. In addition to his Ivy League championships, Graham has led Harvard to the NCAA Tournament eight times. The Crimson has finished the season with a losing record only twice in the last 16 years, and Graham is the winningest active coach in the Ivy League. He has coached three All-Americans and four Ivy League players of the year. “It’s a tough sport to be a coach in. Outside college, everyone has their own coach and everyone expects that individual attention,” Mukundan...
...wife," but college football coach Eddie Robinson will be remembered for single-handedly putting Louisiana's tiny Grambling State University on the national map. Until 2003, when John Gagliardi of St. John's topped him, his 408-165-15 record over 56 years made him the winningest coach in college football. But he was proudest of the 200-plus players he sent to the NFL, including Paul Younger, the league's first player from an all-black school, in 1949, and Super Bowl MVP quarterback Doug Williams, who in 1998 succeeded Robinson as Grambling coach...
...collegiate season this weekend with a fifth place finish at the NCAA Championships and became the first freshman in program history to become an All-American. Even he could not simply shrug off these accomplishments. Posting a 37-8 record on the season, O’Connor became the winningest freshman in the history of Harvard wresting. Facing the best competition in the nation, and all the emotions and excitement at the Palace at Auburn Hills, O’Connor showed rare maturity and poise in his first ever appearance at the nationals. “His goal all along...