1898-1965
American football coach
Earl "Curly" Lambeau was the founder and first coach of the Green Bay Packers football team. He led the team to six world titles in the 1930s and 1940s, and had a
Earl Lambeau
winning percentage of .657. The Packers' stadium in Green Bay, Lambeau Field, is named in his honor.
Sketch by Kelly Winters
In 1898, when Lambeau was born, Green Bay, Wisconsin was a busy commercial center, populated largely by northern European immigrants, and was noted for its breweries, cheese factories, and paper mills. Although it only had 30,000 residents, the town also had a symphony orchestra, street lamps, and trolley cars. What it did not have was a football team. Lambeau, who was a hero on his high school fo…
In 1921 the Packers joined the new National Football League, a move that cost $50. Lambeau got into trouble by playing college students under assumed names, and the team's franchise was revoked. However, when Lambeau apologized and paid $250, it was returned. Financially, the team struggled just to stay afloat, and throughout the 1920s, the team made enough to scrape by through holding danc…
Lambeau's legacy, the Packers football team, is still going strong. Lambeau took the team from playing in front of crowds of 4,000 to 5,000 in its early days to playing for almost 25,000 fans in the mid-1930s; today, because of television, millions of fans watch every game. The team is famed not only for winning division championships and Super Bowls, but also for the intense loya…
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