dwmyers
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I'm maybe half way through Bob Lilly's bio, and I don't like it much. Too many stories you can read elsewhere.
Never read Landry's autobiography, that's on order.
I read at last one of Garrison's books. Quite good.
Sam Huff has two autobiographies, read big chunks of both of them.
A lot of what I'm reading for is the history of football defenses, 1948-1963 or so.
Steve Owen, for whom Tom Landry was a defensive captain, has a good autobiography written about 1952. It's called "my Way of Football".
I think a case can be made that Landry's original 4-3 defenses were the first keying defenses, and perhaps the first gap control defenses, period.
The only competition I can imagine at the moment would be a college defense, Bud Wilkinson's 5-4. And I'm not certain the defense as coached in the 1950s spoke of gap control (Course I don't know; I don't have access to notes at the coaching clinics of the time).
People who played in those days are important. Dick Nolan. Maury Youmans.
Totally off the subject, but one Patrick Toomay has written a review of Herb Adderley's book..
Non-Cowboys bios I'd love to see: Bill George, Ritchie Petitbon. Paul Brown's autobiography is an excellent read. Bill Walsh stole plenty from Brown ppl tended to claim as Walsh's own.
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Never read Landry's autobiography, that's on order.
I read at last one of Garrison's books. Quite good.
Sam Huff has two autobiographies, read big chunks of both of them.
A lot of what I'm reading for is the history of football defenses, 1948-1963 or so.
Steve Owen, for whom Tom Landry was a defensive captain, has a good autobiography written about 1952. It's called "my Way of Football".
I think a case can be made that Landry's original 4-3 defenses were the first keying defenses, and perhaps the first gap control defenses, period.
The only competition I can imagine at the moment would be a college defense, Bud Wilkinson's 5-4. And I'm not certain the defense as coached in the 1950s spoke of gap control (Course I don't know; I don't have access to notes at the coaching clinics of the time).
People who played in those days are important. Dick Nolan. Maury Youmans.
Totally off the subject, but one Patrick Toomay has written a review of Herb Adderley's book..
Non-Cowboys bios I'd love to see: Bill George, Ritchie Petitbon. Paul Brown's autobiography is an excellent read. Bill Walsh stole plenty from Brown ppl tended to claim as Walsh's own.
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