Curly Lambeau: Building the Green Bay Packers (Badger Biographies Series)

Salt sack football -- To Notre Dame and back again -- Town team on the move -- Packers' first season -- Present at the birth of the NFL -- Bringing home championships -- Sliding downhill -- Losing games, losing faith -- Leaving and returning -- Appendix: Curly's time line -- Appendix: The history of football. When Earl "Curly" Lambeau was a young boy growing up in Green Bay in the early 1900s, he and his friends didn't have money for a football. Instead, they kicked around a salt sack filled with sand, leaves, and pebbles. That humble beginning produced a single-minded drive for the figure whose name now graces the Green Bay Packers' stadium. This title in the Badger Biographies series charts the course of Curly Lambeau's career as a flamboyant player and coach, which paralleled the rise of professional football in this country. Lambeau revolutionized the way football is played by legitimizing passing in a game that had previously centered on running. His dedication to popularizing football in Green Bay and in the state helped build the Packer organization into the institution it has become. Yet, he was not without flaws, and this biography presents a full picture of a man whose ambitions complicated his legacy. Presents a biography of the founder, player, and first coach of the Green Bay Packers' professional football team.