Vince Lombardi ranks as one of Fordham's greatest all-time sports figures. A solid bulwark of the second edition of the Seven Blocks of Granite while at Fordham, he also was a fine student. After graduation he taught and coached at St. Cecilia's High School in New Jersey before returning to Fordham in 1946 as an assistant coach under Ed Danowski. In 1948 he joined the famed Red Blaik at Army, and helped him build the great Army teams of the early fifties. In the fifties Lombardi joined the New York Football Giants as an assistant coach, only to move on to Green Bay in 1959 as head coach of the floundering Packers. He returned from the Packers to world-championship caliber, winning six division championships, five NFL titles, and two Super Bowls. He retired after the 1967 season, only to return as head coach of the renascent Washington Redskins.